tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32702661819035732992024-02-19T03:23:12.540-08:00What's Happening in South CollegeThe newsletter of the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts-AmherstUMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comBlogger1616125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-83271470038639310502016-06-05T10:54:00.009-07:002016-06-05T10:54:59.385-07:00WHISC closes shop<p>WHISC ends for the Summer with this issue. We’ll return at the end of August, when things begin to ramp up for the Fall.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-29044244603242638402016-06-05T10:54:00.007-07:002016-06-05T20:16:51.161-07:00UMass at Speech Prosody 2016<p>Speech Prosody 2016 was hosted by Boston University from Tuesday, May 31 through Friday 3 in Boston. UMass was represented by </p>
<p>alumna Emily Elfner, who gave the tale “Subject/Object complexity and prosody boundary strength in Irish"</p>
<p>alumnus Jesse Harris, with Sun-Ah Jun and Adam Joyer, who gave the talk “Implicit prosody pulls its weight: Recovery from garden path sentences.”</p>
<p>Mara Breen, with Sarah Weidman and Katherine Haydon, gave the talk “Prosodic speech entrainment in romantic relationships."</p>
<p>Covadonga Sánchez-Alvarado and Meghan E. Armstrong gave the talk “Pitch scaling and the perception of contrastive focus in L1 and L2 Spanish."</p>
<p>Alumna Amy Schafer, with Múria Esteve-Gibert, Cristel Portes, Barbara Hemforth and Mariapaola D’Imperio, gave the paper “Intonation in the processing of contrast meaning in French: An eye-tracking study."</p>
<p>Meghan Armstrong organized a special session on Rising intonation in English and beyond, and gave a talk, with Maria Del Mar Vanrell, at that session entitled “Intonational polar question markers and implicature in American English and Majorcan Catalan.” She also, with Page Piccinini and Amanda Ritchart, gave the poster “Non-Question rises in narratives produced by mothers and daughters."</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-54936385752781673422016-06-05T10:54:00.005-07:002016-06-05T10:54:36.359-07:00Roeper in Delhi<p>Tom Roeper gave a virtual talk at the colloquium series at IIT in Delhi on June 1. The title of his talk was “Minimalism and Acquisition."</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-28773417771547404492016-06-05T10:54:00.003-07:002016-06-05T10:54:26.805-07:00Call for papers: LSA<p>The 2017 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will be January5-8 in Austin, Texas. Abstracts will be accepted for 20 minute papers and for posters until July 31, 2016. Abstracts are to be submitted through the LSA website. For more information, go <a href="http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/2017-annual-meeting-call-abstracts">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-78657750823805522242016-06-05T10:54:00.001-07:002016-06-05T10:54:17.308-07:00Call for papers: Towards an Ontology of Modal Flavors<p><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Our understanding of modal meanings is crucially based on the notion of various modal flavors, which distinguish, for example, between epistemic and deontic readings. However, neither within nor across linguistic subfields is there any consensus about the exact ontology of those modal flavors. Thus, a common assumption in formal semantics is that there is a hierarchical distinction between modal meanings: there is a fundamental difference between epistemic and non-epistemic meanings, and the non-epistemic meanings can be split further into flavors such as deontic, bouletic, etc. (e.g., Hacquard, 2011). But the seminal typological study by Bybee et al. (1994) and subsequent work suggest that the distinction between participant-internal and participant-external flavors may be just as significant as the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic ones. Moreover, current formal semantic approaches do not predict any interesting correlation between the dimensions of modal flavor and modal force, though Rubinstein (2012) has recently argued for some non-trivial correlations between force and varieties of non-epistemic modality. Meanwhile, typological research shows that the distinction between necessity and possibility may not apply to participant-internal flavors (Nauze, 2008). Insights from related disciplines likewise fail to converge. Thus, experimental research indicates that the distinction between moral and physical laws may not be as salient on a psychological level as one might expect from traditional approaches to modal flavors (Phillips, 2015). </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in formal semantics, typology, syntax, language description, psycholinguistics and language acquisition to address these issues in the analysis of linguistic modality, in order to gain a better understanding of the role of modal flavors in grammar and cognition. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Invited speaker: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">alumna Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Organizers: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kilu von Prince (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ryan Bochnak (University of Manchester) </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anne Mucha (Universität Potsdam) </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">References: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bybee, J. L, Perkins, Revere, & Pagliuca, W. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. The University of Chicago Press. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cinque, Guglielmo. 1999. Adverbs and functional heads: a cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford University Press. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hacquard, Valentine. 2011. Modality. Pages 1484–1515 of: von Heusinger, Klaus, Maienborn, Claudia, & Portner, Paul (eds), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research. de Gruyter. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nauze, Fabrice. 2008. Modality in typological perspective. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language and Communication. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Phillips, Jonathan Scott. 2015. The psychological representation of modality. Ph.D. thesis, Yale University. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rubinstein, Aynat. 2012. The roots of modality. Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.</span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Call for Papers: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We invite abstracts for talks (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes for questions) for the workshop “Towards an ontology of modal flavors” to take place during the 39th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, taking place March 8-10, 2017 at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany (Homepage: </span><a style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc3300; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" href="http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de/wordpress/">http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de/wordpress/</a><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> , LinguistList: </span><a style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc3300; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" href="http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=246576">http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=246576</a><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">). </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We invite contributions from a variety of fields including modal logic and formal semantics, typology, syntax, language description, psycholinguistics and language acquisition to discuss the nature of modal flavors and address, for example, one of the following questions: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- What are possible candidates for modal flavors? </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How strict are the boundaries between modal flavors? Are some distinctions more fundamental than others? </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Are some of the distinctions between modal flavors based on a difference in syntactic positions, resulting in different interactions with negation and tense/aspect (as proposed by Cinque 1999, Hacquard 2011 and others)? </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Are the dimensions of force and flavor independent from one another? </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Are the dimensions of force and flavor sufficient to account for all the distinctions we find in natural languages? </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Abstracts should be a maximum of two pages (references may be on a third page), using a 12-point font and 2.5cm/1 inch margins on all four sides. Please submit anonymous abstracts in pdf format to modalflavorsag</span><img style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" alt="" align="absbottom" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gmail.com by August 15, 2016. Please include your name, affiliation, and title of the abstract in the body of your email. </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Important dates: </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Call deadline: August 15, 2016 </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2016 </span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Workshop dates: March 8-10, 2017</span><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333366; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-16280680498256664682016-06-05T10:53:00.001-07:002016-06-05T10:53:55.484-07:00Roeper in Frankfurt<p>Tom Roeper will be giving a talk entitled “Abstract Triggers and Acquisition” at the University of Frankfurt on June 28th.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-53065027664252590212016-05-29T19:50:00.003-07:002016-05-29T19:51:33.574-07:00Slogget at Santa Cruz<p>Shayne Slogget will give a talk at the University of California at Santa Cruz this Wednesday, June 1. The title of his talk is “Do comprehenders violate Binding Theory? Depends on your point of view."</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-74063527646482768692016-05-29T19:50:00.001-07:002016-05-29T19:50:24.783-07:00Call for papers: Conditionals at the Crossroads<p>Full Title: Conditionals at the Crossroads of Semantics and Pragmatics </p>
<p>Date: 10-Nov-2016 - 11-Nov-2016 </p>
<p>Location: Konstanz, Germany </p>
<p>Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/conditionalsatthecrossroads/ </p>
<p>Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics</p>
<p>Call Deadline: 24-Jul-2016 </p>
<p>Meeting Description:</p>
<p>Invited speakers: <br />Itamar Francez (University of Chicago) </p>
<p>Daniel Lassiter (Stanford University) </p>
<p>Karen Lewis (Columbia University) </p>
<p>UMass alumnus Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University) </p>
<p>The workshop aims to bring together scholars working on linguistic issues both at the sentential and discourse level as well as scholars working at the junction of linguistics and philosophy. </p>
<p>Particular topics of interest are but are not limited to: </p>
<p>- Epistemic modals in probabilistic and non-probabilistic epistemic models </p>
<p>- Tense, aspect and mood in the semantic composition of conditionals </p>
<p>- Sobel sequences and related patterns </p>
<p>- Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in conditionals and related constructions </p>
<p>- Discourse particles and their occurrence in conditionals </p>
<p>- Conditional perfection and other inferences derived from the interaction between conditionals and discourse </p>
<p>- Semantics and pragmatics of quirky conditionals such as biscuit conditionals, chimeric conditionals, optative conditionals etc. </p>
<p>Organizers: UMass alumna María Biezma and Maribel Romero </p>
<p>Contact: conditionalsatthecrossroadsgmail.com </p>
<p>Meeting website: https://sites.google.com/site/conditionalsatthecrossroads/</p>
<p>Call for Abstracts: </p>
<p>We invite papers on the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective. <br />We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with additional 15 minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous and should be at most 2 pages (A4 or US Letter) in length, including examples and references, using a 12pt font with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins on all four sides. The abstract must be submitted as a single PDF. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being single-authored. </p>
<p>Deadline for Submission: 24 July 2016 </p>
<p>Submit your abstract via EasyAbs: <a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/condcrossroads">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/condcrossroads</a> </p>
<p>(Abstract Submission opens on 1 June 2016)</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-53579744483011292652016-05-22T12:06:00.009-07:002016-05-22T12:06:56.314-07:00Jack Duff interns at Hellenic Studies<p>UMass linguistics and classics major Jack Duff will be a summer inter at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. this summer. You can learn more <a href="http://www.umass.edu/classics/news/classics-major-intern-center-hellenic-studies-washington-dc">here</a>. Congratulations Jack!</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-2832548257666474072016-05-22T12:06:00.007-07:002016-05-22T12:06:49.318-07:00Call for papers: CGSW<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">The 31st edition of the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be a </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">historic one as this will be the first </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CGSW</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> to be held in Africa.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Stellenbosch University in South Africa’s beautiful Western Cape </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Province will be hosting this meeting, which will take place on 2-3 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">December 2016.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Invited Speakers</strong></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Jason Merchant (Chicago)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsø)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Call for papers</strong></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">We invite abstracts for thirty-minute talks (followed by ten minutes </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">of discussion) on any aspect of comparative Germanic syntax, including </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">diachronic syntax. Given the location of the conference, we are also </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">very interested in research focusing on lesser studied Germanic </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">varieties, particularly those that have developed and/or been used in </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">contact situations, including “extraterritorial” varieties of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">continental Germanic. Papers focusing on formal aspects of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">“non-standard” varieties and on phenomena like code-switching are also </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">very welcome, as are papers considering how aspects of the structure </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">of non-Germanic languages spoken in southern Africa (may) have </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">impacted on the structure of Germanic languages spoken in this part of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">the world.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Abstract Guidelines</strong></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Abstracts should not exceed two pages, with 2.5cm margins on all sides </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">and a font size of 12pt. This includes data, references and diagrams.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">co-authored abstract, or two co-authored ones.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Abstracts must be anonymous and prospective presenters should submit </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">their abstract in pdf to:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" href="http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/cgsw31/cgsw31/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/<span>cgsw31</span>/<span>cgsw31</span>/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">The deadline for submission is </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong>31</strong></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong> May 2016</strong>.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Notification of acceptance by <strong>1 July 2016</strong>.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Further information</strong></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Please feel free to visit the conference website at the following address:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" href="http://conferences.sun.ac.za/cgsw31" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://conferences.sun.ac.za/<span>cgsw31</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Here, you will (in due course) find information regarding </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CGSW31 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">itself, a pre-</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CGSW31</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> workshop involving international researchers (see </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">below), visa applications, travel, and accommodation.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">For local (Stellenbosch-related) information, please contact Erin </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Pretorius: </span><a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" href="mailto:erink@sun.ac.za">erink@sun.ac.za</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">For directly </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CGSW</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">-related information, please contact Theresa </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Biberauer: </span><a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" href="mailto:mtb23@cam.ac.uk">mtb23@cam.ac.uk</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Additional workshop</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /></strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">This year, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">CGSW</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> will be accompanied by a pre-workshop taught by Theresa </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Biberauer, Mara Frascarelli, Roland Hinterhölzl and Ian Roberts</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /></p>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">We look forward to receiving your abstracts! And then to welcoming you in Stellenbosch at a wonderful time of year!</div>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-14576765150050189302016-05-22T12:06:00.005-07:002016-05-22T12:06:28.212-07:00UMass at Manchester Phonology meeting <p>The University of Manchester is hosting the the Twenty-Fourth Manchester Phonology Meeting May 26-28th. UMass is represented by </p>
<p>alumna Nancy Hall who is giving the talk “A phonetic study of closed syllable shortening in Palestinian Arabic."</p>
<p>Coral Hughto who is giving the talk “Typological prediction of an interactive learning model"</p>
<p>Leland Kusmer and Ivy Hauser who are giving the talk “Wrong side reduplication in Koasat"</p>
<p>For more information, go <a href="http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/24mfm.html#prog">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-72049354245597140112016-05-22T12:06:00.003-07:002016-05-22T12:06:20.195-07:00Summer Writing Camps<p>The Office ofProfessional Development and the Writing Center are pleased to offer aSummer Writing Series to help graduate students set goals and stay ontrack in a quiet and supportive environment. Optionally, writingconsultants will be available to meet with writers to discuss any typeof writing.</p>
<p>This Summer Writing Series will take place on Tuesdays (through July26th) from 9am - 1pm in the Writing Center (Du Bois Library lowerlevel). Coffee and snacks will be provided. Come late or leave early;come one week or attend them all.</p>
<p>Series pre-registration (once) is required:</p>
<p><a href="http://goo.gl/forms/Lhshl1sk8SKfSlW22">http://goo.gl/forms/Lhshl1sk8SKfSlW22</a></p>
<p>A limited number of consultations are available for advance registration <a href="https://umass.mywconline.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Additional consultations are available for on-site sign-ups on afirst-come, first-served basis.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-74590377319360534742016-05-22T12:06:00.001-07:002016-05-29T19:40:55.863-07:00Summer School in Göttingen<p><strong style="font-family: Helvetica;">Summer School on Complex Clauses/Germany</strong></p>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Host Institution:University of Göttingen, Germany<br />Coordinating Institution:University of Göttingen, Germany</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/535725.html">https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/535725.html</a><br /><br />Dates:8-Aug-2016 to 12-Aug-2016<br />Location:Göttingen , Germany<br /><br />Focus:Linguistics in Göttingen (LinG) proudly announces a five-day summer school on Complex Clauses, held in Göttingen. During this summer school, four tutorials (1,5 hour per day each) will be held, featuring well-known teachers. In addition, there will be a poster session, where students can present and discuss their work, as well as evening lectures.<br /><br />Minimum Education Level:BA<br />Additional Qualifications:The school is intended for 20 graduate students, PhD students or postdocs, working on, or interested in, the topic.<br /><br />Full Summer School Description:<br />Four courses (1,5 hours/day for 5 days):</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br /><strong>Courses:</strong><br /><strong>Jaklin Kornfilt</strong> (Syracuse University): Complex Clauses in some head-final languages (with particular attention to Turkish and Turkic)<br /><strong>UMass alumnus Keir Moulton</strong> (Simon Fraser University): Ingredient of Embedding<br /><strong>Hans-Martin Gärtner</strong> (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Issues in Special and Minor Sentence Type<br /><strong>Magdalena and Stefan Kaufmann</strong> (UConn): Current topics in the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals<br /><br /><strong>Evening lectures:</strong><br />Beáta Gyuris (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The semantics and pragmatics of embedded interrogatives in Hungarian<br />Uwe Junghans and Hagen Pitsch (University of Göttingen): Complex sentence structures in Slavic<br /><br /><strong>Tuition</strong>:100 (EUR)<br />Tuition Explanation:Tuition includes coffee breaks and free lunch on all 5 days.<br /><strong>Registration Dates</strong>:1-Apr-2016 to 23-May-2016<br />Contact person information:Edgar Onea<br />Email:edgar.onea@<a href="http://zentr.uni-goettingen.de/">zentr.uni-goettingen.de</a><br />Apply by mail:<a href="mailto:julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de">julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de</a><br />----------------<br />Apply by email:<a href="mailto:julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de">julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de</a><br />Registration Instructions:Interested? Send an email to <a href="mailto:julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de">julia.steinmetz@zentr.uni-goettingen.de</a> by May 23 with a short description of your research interests and a short motivation why you would want to attend the school. Together this should be no more than 500 words. Please consult the website <a href="https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/535725.html">https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/535725.html</a> on accommodation information and financial aid. Notification of acceptance by the June, 1 the latest.<br /><br /></div>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-30517975400704358292016-05-22T12:05:00.001-07:002016-05-22T12:05:37.002-07:00Roeper at University of Toronto<p>Tom Roeper will be giving a talk entitled “Recursion and Interfaces” at a workshop on Complexity in Learnability and Development that the University of Toronto is hosting this Wednesday, May 25. Tom’s paper reports on his work with Petra Schulz. The Workshop is organized by UMass alumna Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux, who will also be giving talks at the workshop. For more information, go <a href="http://utlinguistics.blogspot.com/2016/05/workshop-on-complexity-in-learnability.html">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-51658402689225936472016-05-15T18:59:00.005-07:002016-05-15T18:59:49.071-07:00Ellipsis and Andrew Weir make Slate<p>Katy Waldman, <em>Slate</em>’s “words correspondent” <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2016/05/04/all_your_questions_about_pronoun_deletion_and_the_inexorable_death_of_the.html">riffs on ellipsis</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-40257628817896173892016-05-15T18:59:00.003-07:002016-05-15T18:59:37.917-07:00Graduate Commencement<p>Presley Pizzo, Claire Moore-Cantwell and Brian Smith took delivery of their well-earned PhD diplomas at the Graduate Commencement on Friday, May 6th. </p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="grad.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbE1HDIqC3H-URlu6gDfy6S_tefHJnrJpWxkphbUxi4KPwVVAbps-65pqBpRAI5WvxpT_PPHLFzAaFAOICuXCGp9vhIaL5vwH0CEfyYOqq5tZUr8hRVlGRY-Xd39qY0Rv0_kjJPjbCBU/?imgmax=1600" alt="Grad" width="320" height="240" border="0" /></p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-48762268826351979972016-05-15T18:59:00.001-07:002016-05-15T18:59:26.112-07:00Johnson in California<p>Kyle Johnson gives a talk at the University of California-Santa Cruz on Friday, May 20, entitled “Building a Trace."</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-38699176427515996082016-05-15T18:57:00.003-07:002016-05-15T18:57:58.222-07:00UMass at WAFL 12<p>Central Connecticut College is hosting the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics this weekend, May 13-15. UMass is represented by:</p>
<p>Deniz Özyildiz, who is giving the poster “*Say what? A Turkish word order restriction explained by prosody."</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>alumnus Satoshi Tomioka, who is giving the invited talk “Purposeful Questions: A New Embedding Strategy."</p>
<p>For more information, go <a href="http://web.ccsu.edu/english/wafl12/default.asp">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-65895654873999336012016-05-15T18:57:00.001-07:002016-05-15T18:57:39.073-07:00Linguists at HFA Senior Recognition Ceremony<p>Some pictures of freshly graduated linguists at the Humanities and Fine Arts Senior Recognition Ceremony last Saturday, May 7.</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="under1.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbjUhDrjtVAERukk_Y8bLBMZozGTnDaqNbtKXxiC43y9Ur-y7LqtPGd4h2xsGITJLXz3aT4AKuffIh8s5qUtlA4MszKap9eorh_3myzRmWDHkiDGYHoYqGQHYYEJGj8tC1qupinXzbfRI/?imgmax=1600" alt="Under1" width="599" height="339" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="under2.jpg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHcFQOMWxZrCw8Zs0-zqNoRQ6bjoNcZkMuzlIqpAp37j609sntMGVBS6Wvxtv5bOfcftAKXmtFPMdYRGKaxCslqYhOTpOlxCtRDjVfznh137QMYEkIp0L1loi8JB2DU63m18Y8OHhYtg/?imgmax=1600" alt="Under2" width="599" height="339" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="under3.JPG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0VGXQQxQdRfBIpA94W4cT0kyUYvWq4SY-NctdQqy8bhnhPo1H6h1QH_YY8CWDWOhzTIspXu6z8jzItTr-NauY4ZNOSOED258KzJQz5vVa0CXMkcBBuM777Wh8POL2KWI9p2cjwoozrcE/?imgmax=1600" alt="Under3" width="450" height="600" border="0" /></p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-71140281877810771972016-05-08T20:58:00.003-07:002016-05-08T20:58:22.297-07:00Astrid A Esquilín Nieves<p>Astrid talks about <a href="http://profiles.umass.edu/video/astrid-esquil%C3%ADn-nieves?target-to=student&utm_content=bufferfa32f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">studying at UMass</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-63361836447897201082016-05-08T20:58:00.001-07:002016-05-08T20:58:03.876-07:00Call for papers: BCGL<p dir="auto"><strong>BCGL 9: Phase Theory</strong><br /> Brussels, <span class="__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date" style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">December 13-14,</span> 2016.</p>
<p dir="auto">BCGL 9 will be followed by <a href="http://www.crissp.be/10">CRISSP 10</a>, a one-day workshop celebrating the <span class="__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date" style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">10th</span> anniversary of the research institute CRISSP featuring invited presentations by Luigi Rizzi, Alec Marantz, and Angelika Kratzer, among others.</p>
<h2>BCGL 9: description</h2>
<p dir="auto">Throughout the history of generative grammar, there have been various ways of implementing locality effects, for example through Transformational Cycles (Chomsky 1965; Kayne 1969) or Barriers (Chomsky 1986). Phase Theory (Uriagereka 1999; Chomsky 2000, 2001) constitutes the most recent development in this line of thinking. It is often argued that there exist discrete structural domains in natural language that exhibit a degree of syntactic, semantic, and phonological independence from their surrounding linguistic environment. Phase Theory offers a tool for understanding such domains. However, since the inception of phases, there have been many different proposals about the specific formalization of this concept, along with much debate about the extent to which phases can be evidenced empirically (and indeed whether phases exist at all). The aim of this workshop is to discuss the empirical validity and theoretical specifics of Phase Theory. The questions and issues this workshop aims to address, include, but are not limited to the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>What are the empirical diagnostics for phases and how reliable are these? Common diagnostics for phases are:
<ul>
<li>(related to the narrow syntax) successive-cyclic movement (islands), agreement, binding conditions, quantifier scope, and parasitic gaps (Fox 1998; Nissenbaum 1998; Legate 2003);</li>
<li>(related to the PF-interface) ellipsis (Holmberg 1999, 2001; Gengel 2007, 2008), and prosodic rule application (Sato 2009);</li>
<li>(related to the LF-interface) idiomatic expressions (Svenonius 2005; Harwood & Temmerman 2015; Kim 2015).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>What is the definition of a phase? Do phases correspond to sub-numerations (Chomsky 2000, 2001), spell-out domains and/or workspaces (Uriagereka 1999)? Or do they need to be defined in terms of e.g. Prolific Domains (Grohmann 2003), Layered Derivations (Zwart 2009), or Cyclic Linearization (Fox & Pesetsky 2003, 2005)? Related questions are: What is the timing of spell-out and what exactly is spelled out (Chomsky 2000, 2001; Fox & Pesetsky 2003, 2005; Richards 2011; Bošković 2014)?</li>
<li>What does the inventory of phases look like: CP, vP, DP, PP, …? Is the size of a phase fixed? Are phases rigid and absolute or context-sensitive (cf. Bošković (2013, 2014), Wurmbrand (2013) and Harwood (2015) for dynamic phases, Den Dikken (2007) for phase extension, and Gallego (2010) for phase sliding)?</li>
<li>To what extent do phases at one interface (necessarily) coincide with phases at another interface (Marušič 2005; d’Alessandro & Scheer 2015)?</li>
</ul>
<h2>Abstract guidelines</h2>
<p dir="auto">Abstracts should be anonymous, and submissions are limited to 2 per author, at least one of which must be co-authored. They must not exceed two pages, including data, references and diagrams. The font should be at least 11-point, with one-inch margins. They should be submitted as pdf-documents through EasyChair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcgl9">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcgl9</a></p>
<h2>Important dates</h2>
<p dir="auto">First call for papers: May 3, 2016.<br /> Second call for papers: August 1, 2016.<br /> Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2016.<br /> Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2016.</p>
<h2>Conference location</h2>
<p dir="auto">CRISSP – KU Leuven Brussels Campus<br /> Warmoesberg 26<br /> 1000 Brussels<br /> Belgium</p>
<h2>Conference organizers</h2>
<p dir="auto">Jeroen van Craenenbroeck<br /> Will Harwood<br /> Dany Jaspers<br /> Cora Pots<br /> Koen Roelandt<br /> Jolijn Sonnaert<br /> Tanja Temmerman<br /> Guido Vanden Wyngaerd</p>
<h2>Websites</h2>
<p dir="auto"><a href="http://www.crissp.be/bcgl9">http://www.crissp.be/bcgl9</a><br /> <a href="http://www.crissp.be/10">http://www.crissp.be/10</a></p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-74213944846229167022016-05-08T20:57:00.007-07:002016-05-08T20:57:57.574-07:00Kratzer at UPenn<p>Angelika Kratzer gave a colloquium talk entitled “Evidential Moods” to UPenn’s linguistics department on Thursday, May 5.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-62441211086363734402016-05-08T20:57:00.005-07:002016-05-08T20:57:49.725-07:00Rethinking Comparative Syntax<p>The University of Cambridge hosted the conference “Rethinking Comparative Syntax” this last week. UMass was represented by David Erschler, who gave the talk “Typology of Sluicing in wh- and non-wh-questions.” For more information, go <a href="http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-7239507929576933922016-05-08T20:57:00.003-07:002016-05-08T20:57:34.770-07:00UMass at FASL<p>Cornell University is hosting the Twenty Fifth annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics on May 13-15. Gaja Jarosz and alumnus Michael Becker are giving plenary talks. Gaja’s is entitled “Sonority sequencing in Polish: Defying the sttimulus?” and Michael’s is entitled “Inconspicuous unfaithfulness in Slovenian.” For more information, go <a href="http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/FASL25/index.html">here</a>.</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270266181903573299.post-10465880621770217322016-05-08T20:57:00.001-07:002016-05-08T20:57:24.879-07:00Call for papers: Workshop on Complex Predicates<p>Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages</p>
<p>University of Tehran,</p>
<p>Tehran, IRAN,</p>
<p>10-11 September 2016</p>
<p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/">https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/</a></p>
<p> Deadline for abstract submission: May 20, 2016 </p>
<p>Guidelines are available on <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/call">https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/call</a></p>
<p>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</p>
<p>- emergence of complex predicates</p>
<p>-complex predicates as light verb constructions</p>
<p>-idioms as complex predicates </p>
<p>-argument structure of complex predicates </p>
<p>-event structure of complex predicates </p>
<p>-active/non-active distinction and argument alternation </p>
<p>-phonological properties of complex predicates</p>
<p>Keynote speakers:</p>
<p>Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (Professor, Allameh Tabataba'i University)</p>
<p>Simin Karimi (Professor, University of Arizona)</p>
<p>Pollet Samvelian (Professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS)</p>UMass Linguisticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825006085518133561noreply@blogger.com