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We welcome MATTHIAS KROMANN from Copenhagen to the department this week. He will be speaking on "Dependency Grammar and Local Optimality Parsing" this Friday, October 18 at 3:30 p.m. in Cowell Classroom 131. Following his talk, there will be a potluck dinner at 328 Union Street hosted by Andy Wedel. All are welcome.
http://www.id.cbs.dk/~mtk/files/011001-entcs.pdf
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Please mark your calendars for two more colloquia this quarter:
November 1: ADAM ALBRIGHT, UCSC Linguistics Faculty Fellow for 2002-2003
November 15: RAJESH BHATT, University of Texas at Austin
Both talks will be in the Silverman Conference Room at 3:30 p.m.
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Geoff Pullum and Chris Potts are off to Stanford this Thursday (10/17) to speak at the Phonology Workshop. The title of their talk is:
"Model theory and the content of OT constraints"
They are on at 5:30 pm in the Stanford Linguistics Department, Room 126.
An abstract and a link to their abstract and paper are available at the
Phonology Workshop's webpage:
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/pinterest/
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Judith Aissen is giving two talks at the University of Potsdam this week:
--at the Sixth Workshop on OT Syntax, "Bidirectional optimization and the problem of recoverability in head-marking languages";
--and at the ?-??-???-* Conference (aka Gradedness Conference), "Categoricity and variation in syntax: the stochastic generalization" (with Joan Bresnan).
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Rodrigo Gutierrez Bravo is presenting a paper at the "Semantic and
Syntactic Aspects of Specificity in Romance Languages" workshop, which is being
held at Konstanz University this month. The paper he is presenting is called "Prominence
scales and unmarked word order in Spanish."
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The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the winner of our United Airline ticket contest:
Jenny Michelle Nadaner!!!
Jenny's entry won her the tickets (equivalent of round-trip) which were generously donated to the department by our alumnus: Jeffrey Labanc.
Congratulations Jenny, and enjoy your trip to Italy in December for the ConSole XI conference: 11th meeting of the students organization of Linguistics,in Europe!!
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This is a preliminary announcement of a workshop which will be held at UC Berkeley on March 7-8, 2003. It's entitled, "Explaining Linguistic Universals: Historical Convergence and Universal Grammar" and the speakers are:
Juliette Blevins, University of California, Berkeley
Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley
Alice Harris, Vanderbilt University/SUNY at Stony Brook
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Larry Hyman, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
John Whitman, Cornell University
More information can be found on the workshop website:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jcgood/Universals
Please e-mail Jeff Good (jcgood@socrates.berkeley.edu) if you have any questions.
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ASL Travel Awards
The Association for Symbolic Logic will be making available modest travel Awards so that graduate students may attend the June, 2003 ASL Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois or the August, 2003 ASL European Summer Meeting in Helsinki, Finland. For further information, visit the ASL website at http://aslonline.org.
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Interpreting Opportunities Available for Speakers of Indigenous Languages
Bowne Global Solutions is currently seeking qualified bilingual individuals who are fluent in both English and Aguacateco, Cachiquel, Chju, Chinanteco, Ixil, Jacalteco, Kekchi, Konjobal, Mam, Misquito, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Quiche Achi, Quechua, Quiche, Rahinal Achi, Tectiteco, Trique, Tzotzil or Zapoteco. For more information, contact Peggy Kane: peggy.kane@bowneglobal.com or visit the website: http://www.bowneglobal.com
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The Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting will take place in Atlanta, Georgia January 2-5, 2003.
http://www.lsadc.org
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It's not too soon to think about applying for fellowships for the 2003 Linguistic Institute, to be held June 30-August 8, 2003 at Michigan State University. The deadline for receipt of fellowship applications and all related materials is February 11, 2003. For further information, http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu
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Fellowships/Grants for Student Linguists
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships: http://www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/disserts.htm
The Jacob Javits Fellowship Program: email: OPE_Javits_Program@ed.gov
National Security Education Program/Boren Graduate International Fellowships: http://www.aed.org/nsep
National Institutes of Health Research and Training Programs: http://grants1.nih.gov/training/index.htm
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