Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Masha is the keynote speaker at BUCLD, joining Kasia, Mike, Rachel, and Julie, Jeff, Naomi and Valentine, as well as Baggett alumnus Chris Baron, AND Alix Kowalski, Yi Ting Huang and Jared Novick from HESP,.
Grace Hynes and John Mathena have both been selected as Dean's Senior Scholars.
Valentine Hacquard gives the Michael S. Goodman Lecture in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University, ON "Grasping at Factivity," joint work with Rachel Dudley and Jeffrey Lidz.
Colin Phillips is giving the colloquium talk at Delaware Linguistics.
The University of Bucharest has a crash-course on agreement with Omer Preminger at the helm.
Now in Cognition, from 2014 alum Dan Parker and Colin Phillips, "Negative polarity illusions and the format of hierarchical encodings in memory."
Maria Polsinky discusses "Ergativity and control/raising" at the Control Workshop at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Alexander and Jeff Green, plus Annemarie and Ted, are at the North East Linguistic Society, hosted this year by UMass, with alumni Dustin Chacón, Brian Dillon, Alex Drummond, Tim Hunter, Diogo Almeida, and Masaya Yoshida.
Howard Lasnik presents "Clause-mates, phases, and bound pronouns" in Kraków, Poland, and then at Universität Leipzig, "Shrinking Trees: Some Early History."
Valentine Hacquard gives both a mini-course and a colloquium talk on the semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports, from the perspective both of the formal semanticist and of the child learner.