Sally Thomason published her paper, “How to establish substratum interference” in the new book, Issues in Tibeto-Burman Historical Linguistics, ed. by Yusuhiko Nagano and published by the National Museum of Ethnology, 2009.
Her paper “At a Loss for Words” has been reprinted in Natural History’s Annual Editions: Anthropology 10/11.
Natalia Kondroshova presented her paper, entitled Quantificational Properties of ne-Wh items in Russian (co-authored with Radek Simik), at the 40th annual North East Linguistic Society Conference on Nov. 14th.
The Undergraduate Club meets Monday, November 9 at 7:30 for “Questions and Condiments”.
Bring some homework, questions, or anything interesting Linguistics-related, and the Club will provide some delicious snacks to doctor up your dilemmas. We’d love to see you there!
“Questions and Condiments”
7:30 November 9
403 Catford Room
Marlyse Baptista gave a colloquium address to the Pittsburgh Linguistics Colloquium Series on November 6th, 2009.
Title: On the development of nominal and verbal morphology in four lusophone creoles
Abstract
Two of our undergradaute concentrators, Baird Campbell and Charlotte Peterson, have been awarded English Teaching fellowship from the Fullbright Program.
Congratulations Baird and Charlotte!
A workshop on Logic, Linguistics and Artifical Intelligence will be held in the East Conference Room in the Rackham Building on Friday, Nov. 6 and Sat., Nov. 7 in honor of Rich Thomason.
Speakers include: Charles Cross, Bas van Fraasen, Alex Lascarides, Leora Morgenstern, Barbara Partee, Robert Stalnaker, Matthew Stone and Frank Veltman.
This term’s issue of the College of LS&A Alumni magazine featured a story about Sally Thomason and her work with the Montana Salish and Pend d’Oreille elders.
You can read it here.
