Archive for the ‘Alums’ Category

On the CUSP of Thanksgiving Break…

Get ready for CUSP, the 2nd California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics conference, this Saturday in scenic UC Santa Cruz. Here’s the website, with location and program information. Quite a few Stanford people will give talks:

  • Jessica Spencer
    A Game-theoretic Analysis of Copula Emergence in Saramaccan
  • Cleo Condoravdi and Sven Lauer
    Performing A Wish: Desiderative Assertions and Performativity
  • Olena Andrushenko
    Evolution of Instrumental Component Realization within an Intended Action in Middle English

And if you don’t want to travel all the way down to Santa Cruz, you can stay here and attend the Conference on Language and Power, also this Saturday in Cordura 100.

—Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/11/20 (Alums, Events, Presentations)

Look Who’s Talking

  • Arto Anttila will be talking on “The Role of Prosody in the English Dative Alternation” at a colloquium at UCLA today.
  • On Thursday, alum Devyani Sharma gave the annual lecture for the Queen Mary University of London’s School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film, on the topic: ‘Sounds of the Five Rivers: The persistence of Punjabi style in West London English’. By all accounts it was an excellent talk!
—Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/11/20 (Alums, Faculty, Presentations)

Look Who’s Talking

London will be swarming with Stanford linguists and Stanford Linguistics alums this weekend, mostly due to the conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. Among those presenting are:

  • Tyler Schnoebelen
    Classifying Shabo
  • Tatiana Nikitina (Freie Universität, Berlin)
    Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande
  • Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne
    Murrinh-Patha agreement: implications for the relationship between theory and description

Some Stanford linguists will be enjoying a very different climate in Honolulu this weekend, at the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Here they are:

  • Chigusa Kurumada and Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA)
    Negotiating desirability: The acquisition of the uses of ii ‘good’ in mother-child interactions in Japanese
  • Kyuwon Moon
    Consonant cluster simplification in Seoul Korean: A morphologically driven account of variation

    • And Austin will be welcoming a number of Stanford people for the Texas Linguistics Society’s 12th Annual Conference. Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, and Annie Zaenen will be giving invited talks in the Workshop on Discourse Structure, and other talks include:

    • Elizabeth Coppock, Stephen Wechsler
      Clitic vs. Agreement in Hungarian
    • Patricia Amaral
      ”Both are Close”: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Word Meaning
—Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/11/13 (Alums, Presentations)

Look Who’s Talking

  • First year Isla Flores-Bayer and her associate Chiyo Nishida held forth on the 24th of October on “Localizing the loss and attrition of the subjunctive through generations: The case of Central Texas adult bilinguals” at the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2009.
  • What’s more, Chigusa Kurumada will be giving a presentation next Thursday with Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA) about “Negotiating desirability: The acquisition of the uses of ii ‘good’ in mother-child interactions in Japanese” at the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference in Hawai’i.
  • And if you’re sitting in a car right now you’d better buckle up, because what you’re about to read might throw you out of your seat! Stanford and its alums will be tearing apart the upcoming BUCLD (Boston University Conference on Language Development) Conference with these presentations:
    • Bruno Estigarribia
      Genetic, cognitive, and environmental predictors of morphosyntax
    • Theres Grueter, M. Crago
      The roles of L1 transfer and processing limitations in the L2 acquisition of French object clitic constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-speaking learners
    • Anne Fernald (Psychology)
      “Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it Matters” (Keynote Address)

      • And the posters!

    • Nola Stephens, Eve Clark
      Given before new: Effects of discourse status on child syntactic choices
    • Patricia Amaral
      Almost means ‘less than’: Preschoolers’ comprehension of scalar adverbs
    —Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/11/06 (Alums, Faculty, Presentations)

    Look Who’s Talking and Travelling

  • Meghan Sumner gave a talk at UCSC last week about “Perceptual adjustments to accented speech: The lack of variance problem.”
  • Joan Bresnan is now in residence for two weeks as an External Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, working with Benedikt Szmrecsányi on their project “Predicting Syntax in Space and Time”. She will be back on Nov 8.
  • We forgot to report! Alum Lucas Champollion joined with Uli Sauerland to give a presentation at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP, September 23-25, 2009) and at the Moscow Syntax and Semantics conference (MOSS, October 9-11, 2009).
    • —Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/10/30 (Alums, Faculty)

    Liz Coppock World Tour

    Recent Stanford Linguistics Doc Liz Coppock is giving a number of talks over the next couple of months, in Tokyo and all over the States:

    Whew! Go Liz!

    —Sesquipedalian; Issue 2009/10/23 (Alums)