Masha in Halifax, Leiden and Amherst

On bilingualism and anti-passive.

May is busy for Masha! May 16-19 she is up at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia for the 33rd instance of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, giving an invited talk on "Multiple grammars: Systemic variation across monolingual and bilingual systems," as well as a second talk with Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan from UCLA on "Clitics and clitic doubling in child Bulgarian: Monolingual and bilingual acquisition." Then May 23-24 she is in the Netherlands at Leiden for the Leiden-Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax ("LeiBieCos"!), giving a keynote talk on "The inventory of functional categories in the verbal domain: Lessons from the antipassive." Finally, May 29-31 she is back in the USA at UMass Amherst, giving keynote talk at the 2nd Heritage Languages Around the World conference.

Interestingly, Leiden and Bielefeld are separated in latitude by only 14km, both lying at roughly 52°. And yet the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, seemingly far north, is only around 45°, aligned almost exactly with Pula, Croatia. Meanwhile the arboreal academy at Amherst, Massachusetts, lies still further south of Halifax and Pula by a few hundred kilometers, nearly in line with Andorra at 42.4°.