Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Dave Kush has a paper published in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, entitled "Height-Relative Determination of (Non-Root) Modal Flavor: Evidence from Hindi".
Dave Kush is back from three weeks in India running experiments on the processing of Hindi reciprocals. The work was done at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
"Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" by Robert Berwick, Paul Pietroski, Beracah Yankama and Noam Chomsky has appeared in September's Cognitive Science.
Philip Resnik was recently in California to give the keynote talk at the 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and to speak to the machine translation group at Google Research about his work on crowdsourcing and translation.
Howard Lasnik is the invited speaker at "Islands in Contemporary Syntactic Theory," at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Representing UMD on Nov. 4-6 at the B.U. Conference on Language Development are Annie, Angela, Megan, Jeff, and undergrad major Michael Fetters/
Dustin Chacón will be presenting his work on head movement in the Bangla DP at the CUNY Syntax Supper on November 1st.
Colin Phillips will be the keynote speaker at the Linguistics Association of Portugal conference in Lisbon.
Valentine Hacquard presents "Understanding Desire and Belief Reports" at Johns Hopkins.
Colin Phillips is giving a talk in the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture series, "Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't".