The GLSA is happy to announce the publication of the NELS 48 proceedings, edited by Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson. The three volumes comprise syntax, phonology, and semantics papers, many of which come from current and former UMass linguists.
The volumes are available for purchase hot off the press at the links below:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Professor Tom Roeper has just returned from a trip to Germany which involved talks in Wuppertal, Dortmund, and Berlin.
In Wuppertal, he gave an invited talk at `The View from the Multilingual Child‘ on October 9. [Program: https://www.presse.uni-wuppertal.de/fileadmin/presse/news/2018/08/Multilingualism.pdf] Tom notes that two of the speakers at this conference [Juan Uriagareka and Pieter Muysken taught at UMass] and two others were visitors [Leah Bauke and Petra Schulz].
In Dortmund, he gave a lecture on October 11 at Dortmund University on `From Recursion to Pragmatics: Challenges to Acquisition Theory‘.
And in Berlin, Professor Roeper was at ZAS where he worked with Nadine Balbach on children’s acquisition of the presuppositional meaning of but and with Artemis Alexiadou and Kazuko Yatsushiro on the acquisition of nominalization. While in Berlin, he contacted Hristo Kyuchukov (University of Silesia) who works with refugee communities in and around Berlin and was a former visitor to our department. Professor Roeper is interested in developing experiments that will involve children growing up in these highly multilingual communities.
UMass Linguistics was well represented at NELS 49 at Cornell. Cutting and pasting from the NELS website, I find:
| The Reversible Core of ObjExp, Location, and Govern-Type Verbs. Michael Wilson. |
| Besides Exceptives. Ekaterina Vostrikova. |
| Phase Sensitive Morphology and Dependent Case. Kimberly Johnson. |
| Don’t give me that attitude! Anti-De Se and Feature Matching of German D-Pronouns. Alexander Göbel. |
| A secondary crossover effect in Hindi and the typology of movement. Rajesh Bhatt and Stefan Keine. |
| Complementizers in Laz are attitude sensitive. Omer Demirok, Deniz Ozyildiz and Balkiz Ozturk. |
| Romanian loves Me: Clitic Clusters, Ethics & Cyclic AGREE. Rudmila-Rodica Ivan. |
UMass Alum Maria Gouskova was one of the invited speakers. There were enough of us to justify a group picture.
There was frost outside this morning. So it might be a good time to think about summer. This summer the UMass Linguistics department was very well represented at the CreteLing 2018 summer school in Rethymnou, Crete. Since there are a lot of pictures, I’ll break them into three parts. The third part is distributed group photos. It was difficult to get everyone into one picture. So there are many pictures.
In the big group picture you can see Elena Benedicto, Rajesh Bhatt, Satoshi Tomioka, Kai von Fintel, Petr Kusliy, William Quirk, Bobby Tosswill, Ede Zimmerman [partially], Caroline Fery, Winnie Lechner, Katia Vostrikova, Zahra Mirrazi, Rodica Ivan, Leah Chapman, Kyle Johnson, and Deniz Özyildiz.
There was frost outside this morning. So it might be a good time to think about summer. This summer the UMass Linguistics department was very well represented at the CreteLing 2018 summer school in Rethymnou, Crete. Since there are a lot of pictures, I’ll break them into three parts. The second part is extracurricular activities.
There was frost outside this morning. So it might be a good time to think about summer. This summer the UMass Linguistics department was very well represented at the CreteLing 2018 summer school in Rethymnou, Crete. Since there are a lot of pictures, I’ll break them into three parts. The first part is academics.
Professor Kyle Johnson taught an advanced class on multidominance and Professor Bhatt taught an introductory semantics class. Deniz Özyildiz and Katia Vostrikova were TAs. UMass alums Kai von Fintel and Winnie Lechner also taught classes. The full schedule is here: http://www.phl.uoc.gr/cssl18/index.php
Deniz Özyildiz gave an invited talk on `Unselected Embedded Questions‘ at the WAFL 14 conference that was held at MIT Oct. 19-21, 2018.
The full program can be found here: https://wafl14.mit.edu/program
An abstract of his talk follows.
The Sound Systems of Latin America conference is being held at UMass Friday through Sunday: https://websites.umass.edu/ssola3/program/.
The Friday sessions are in Goodell Hall, and the Saturday sessions are in the ILC.
From Joe Pater
I’ve set up a discussion blog post with links to the final (pre-copyedited) versions of my paper “Generative Linguistics and Neural Networks at 60: Foundation, Friction and Fusion” and the commentaries here: https://websites.umass.edu/cogsci/2018/10/12/discussion-generative-linguistics-and-neural-networks-at-60/. Direct links to the commentaries are also below. The paper and commentaries will appear in the March 2019 volume of Language.
Iris Berent and Gary Marcus. No integration without structured representations: reply to Pater.
Ewan Dunbar. Generative grammar, neural networks, and the implementational mapping problem.
Tal Linzen. What can linguistics and deep learning contribute to each other?
Lisa Pearl. Fusion is great, and interpretable fusion could be exciting for theory generation.
Chris Potts. A case for deep learning in semantics
Jonathan Rawski and Jeff Heinz. No Free Lunch in Linguistics or Machine Learning.
“Temporal Meanings in Two Varieties of Capeverdean”
Fernanda Pratas – University of Lisbon
Wednesday, Oct 10 at 1:30 in Herter 301
ABSTRACT:
In Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based Creole, there seem to be no dedicated tense morphemes, with past, present and future situations being rather expressed by aspect and mood, combined with the linguistic context and pragmatic inferences.
In the variety spoken in the island of Santiago, the postverbal morpheme -ba seems indeed associated with a tense value: past. However, the picture gets more complicated when we look at complex sentences where this morpheme marks what seem infinitival verbs within the scope of modal expressions. These wider contexts clearly point to this morpheme as a temporal concord/agreement marker, and this is the proposal to be defended here.
If this analysis for Santiago -ba is on the right track, it is even more adequate to the case of the (much younger) variety spoken in São Vicente: here we have rather slightly different preverbal forms for present and past progressives and habituals, as well as, for past perfect, a suppletive form of the Portuguese auxiliary tinha ‘had’ + suppletive participle forms.