Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
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.
The 6th MACSIM is at CUNY, with work by Rachel, Jeff Green, Nick Huang, and Quinn Harr from Philosophy.
Hail to 12 Maryland language scientists, plus their crew, who won bronze in their division of the Ragnar Relay, out of 97 teams, running 207 miles in 29 hours, 2 minutes and 49 seconds.
Chris Neufeld talks about "Modelling phonetic categories and categorical perception with inner product spaces" at the Northeast Computational Phonology Circle (NECPhon).
Maria Polinsky is at a Workshop on Georgian and South Caucasian languages, which she helped to organize, giving the introductory lecture, and leading a tutorial on experimental work.
Zoe Schlueter presents joint work with Ellen Lau and Shota Momma *16 at the Second Language Research Form, in "Grammatical knowledge without native-like online processing routines: Subject-verb agreement in Chinese L2 learners of English."
Jeffrey Lidz explains “The Nature and Origins of Principle C,” at a workshop organized by 2007 Maryland alums Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse.
Maria Polinsky is speaking at a Workshop on Heritage Language Acquisition sponsored by the Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition research group within the Department of Linguistics at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway.
Omer Preminger is at Stanford to present "What the PCC tells us about 'abstract' agreement, head movement, and locality" at a workshop on head movement.
Say hello to Iria de dios Flores in 1413H, and Zuzanna Fuchs in 3416A, two new visitors to our department this semester.