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Alan Yu invited to Purdue
Alan Yu will be the invited speaker at the Purdue Linguistics Association Student Symposium 2010, held next weekend on at Purdue. The special session for this year’s symposium will focus on language diversity, and in addition to the Saturday paper sessions, there will also be workshops on Friday. Alan will be speaking Saturday on language diversity.
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Kuzmack going to GRAMIS
Stefanie Kuzmack‘s abstract, “Written language as a factor in language change,” has been accepted for the International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification (GramiS), to be held in Brussels this November. Congrats, Stefie!
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“Relatively” recent talk for CK
If you had the feeling that something was missing a few weeks ago, perhaps it’s because Chris Kennedy was gone off to Germany at the end of last month at the 2010 Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS). Chris gave a talk during that conference’s workshop on Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism, entitled “Where does…
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Time for QP-fest!
This Wednesday and Thursday, all are invited to this year’s “QP-fest” (more formally known as the Graduate Student Miniconference in Linguistics). Our annual exposition of qualifying-papers-in-progress will feature ground-breaking presentations by our second- and third-year graduate students. The two-day program includes: Wednesday, March 10 1:30-‐2:00 | Carissa Abrego-Collier: “Coarticulatory influence on perception of English liquids” 2:00-2:30 | Susan Rizzo:…
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Pesetsky here next week
David Pesetsky (MIT) will be on campus next week on Thursday, March 4. He’ll give a talk on “Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories” (abstract below) at 10:30 a.m. He is also giving a different talk on islands (abstract here) at the University of Illinois at Chicago the following day. Abstract (for U. of C. talk) Sometimes it…
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