On Saturday, September 4, Chris Kennedy participated in a workshop in Stuttgart on Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic, which was held to honor Professor Hans Kamp on the occasion of his 70th birthday. His presentation was called “Vagueness and Imprecision: Meaning and Use”.
On Saturday, September 11, Peter Klecha presented his paper “Optional and Obligatory Modal Subordination” at Sinn und Bedeutung 15, which was held at the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany.
Beginning this quarter and through Winter, we’re pleased to have Yusuke Kubota (OSU, PhD 2010) join the department on a postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He will be working with Chris Kennedy, investigating aspectual composition in Japanese.
For those who hang around the Karen Landahl Center, you’ll be sure to see Julian Grove daily in the Language Processing and Phonology labs. He comes to us with a degree in cognitive science from Johns Hopkins and will be managing the labs, assisting researchers with technical support and running experiments.
We are also welcoming back postdoc Elena Castroviejo who will be here again this fall, and must congratulate her on being awarded a five-year postdoc and eventual tenure-track job at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, which she will begin in January. Felicitacions!
And now for some exciting, non-professional news:
Congratulations!
BLING will go on hiatus for the summer. We will resume when the Fall quarter starts in September. Have a wonderful break, everyone!
Two recent alumni have recently been offered jobs for the upcoming academic year…
… Erin Debenport (Linguistics ’09), who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico,
and Alejandro Paz (Linguistics and Anthropology ’09), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto!
Congratulations, Erin and Alejandro!