The New Sesquipedalian

Our intrepid field reporter Sesqui was present at IvanFest last week, and found the following links to prove just how wonderful a time it was:

• Some pictures and a video: http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Bilder/ivanfest/
• The infamous HPSG man, performed by The Dead Tongues: http://youtu.be/M1tUW_LNnfo

(Thanks to Stefan Müller)

Please join us in congratulating…

• Marie de Marneffe (2012 PhD, now Assistant Professor at OSU), Marta Recasens (Stanford post-doc, now at Google), and Chris Potts, who won the NAACL 2013 best short paper award for ‘The life and death of discourse entities: identifying singleton mentions’.
• Dan Jurafsky for this mention in Stanford News on work with Dan McFarland (Education). Direct any questions on dating to him!

Who’s talking around these days?

• At Princeton: Chris Potts this week and Dan Jurafsky next week.

The latest and greatest from our faculty’s well-worn travel logs:

• In April, Eve Clark gave talks on interaction and acquisition at the Cognitive Development Centre, Central European University in Budapest, HU, and at the Max Planck Instutute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL.
• Meghan Sumner is giving a talk at Stonybrook today on phonetics and variant effects.

We extend our heartiest Sesquikudos to:

• Dan Lassiter will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor beginning September
• Cleo Condoravdi will also be joining our faculty as a Professor (Research), beginning September
• Kate Geenberg, who has been awarded this year’s graduate student essay prize by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology