The New Sesquipedalian

The Stanford Blood Center is reporting a shortage of type O and AB-. For an appointment, visit http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

Alyssa Ferree unearthened a few early 1980s Stanford Linguistics newsletters, News From Linguistics:

Check ‘em out. You too can welcome new arrivals Bresnan, Kiparsky, and Peters, celebrate the birth of CSLI, and thank Tom for becoming Department Chair.

Beth Levin sent us this link to useful resources for grad students and their mentors. In addition, we recommend this Crooked Timber post collecting lots of resources on surviving grad school.

The Stanford Blood Center is reporting a shortage of type O-. For an appointment, visit http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

The Stanford Blood Center is reporting a shortage of type O- and A+. For an appointment, visit http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

The Stanford Blood Center is still reporting a shortage of type O-. For an appointment, visit http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

Now is the time for our undergraduates to report on their projects from the summer. All are welcome this afternoon at 1:45pm in the Greenberg Room to hear these presentations in this order:

Rachel Cristy
Syntactic constraints in Barbadian Creole English and the origins of AAVE

Tim Moon
The OI! Project: Omit Needless Words, Include All Necessary Words

What could be better than hanging out with phonologists and phoneticians? Hanging out with phonologists and phoneticians in the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve! Stephanie Shih writes:

Hello Phoneticians and Phonologists,

Happy Fall Quarter! I know that you have all been eagerly awaiting the start of Phono-Workshop at Stanford, but unfortunately, we’ve run into a slight scheduling problem for the Fall Quarter. In the interim, however, we would like to get everyone together for a hike! Please see below for details.

What: Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Hike
When: 10:30am, Saturday, October 17th, 2009.
Where: Windy Hill Open Space Preserve, on Portola Road.
Getting there: From Highway 280, exit Alpine Rd in Portola Valley. Go south on Alpine ~2.9 miles until the first stop sign (Portola Rd). Turn right at Portola Rd and the parking lot is located 0.8 miles on the left hand side of the road.

Optional: You are also invited for a quick breakfast beginning at 9:00am (sharp!) in Palo Alto. Please RSVP to stephsus@stanford.edu, and I will forward the address to you. From the breakfast, we will carpool/drive to Windy Hill. Otherwise, if you’d like to skip breakfast, we’ll meet you at Windy Hill at 10:30am.

The hike itself will be about 2-3 hours, and the weather looks promising that day. (And perhaps crystal clear views, given the rain we’ll have this week.) As always, you can find information about the hike and other Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop events on the website. If you have any further questions or need transportation, please email me at stephsus@stanford.edu and we can try to arrange something.

Hope to see everyone at the hike!

After hiking for miles and fighting off mountain lions with Stanford’s finest phonologists, you can head to this semantics conference, followed by another hike. Sven Lauer fills us in on the details:

Friends of the similarity measure!

Below is the tentative program for next week’s
workshop session.

The session will be held in the Stanford Linguistics
department, Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 126 (the
`Greenberg room’. If you have ever attended or given
a talk in the ling department, it probably was there).

Parking is a total non-issue on Sundays, you can
park pretty much anywhere on campus, in particular
directly at the Oval, which is most convenient.

In all likelihood, Cleo will organize a hike/walk
after the workshop for those who want some exercise
(and one-on-one semantics talking) afterwards
(highly recommended!).

Sven

And here’s the blow-by-blow:

N3C: Program for the workshop on Counterfactuals, Causality,
and Inertia on Sunday, October 18, 2009
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10:00 COFFEE & WELCOME

10:15 Robert Henderson (UCSC):
A non-defeasible, causal counterfactual in English

11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 Sven Lauer (Stanford):
`Causative’ MAKE: A veridical metaphysical conditional?

12:15 LUNCH (provided)

01:15 Cleo Condoravdi (PARC & Stanford):
Attention to facts: counterfactuals, the progressive, and BEFORE

02:20 Rebecca T. Cover (Berkeley):
A preliminary look at Badiaranke counterfactuals

Symbolic Systems Advising Fellow, Jimmy Chen writes:

Dear Symbolic Systems students, alumni, and faculty,

You are invited to attend the…

Symbolic Systems Fall Barbecue
5:30pm – 8pm Friday, October 23rd
The Oval/BBQ Pit Near GSB

Parking will be available along the oval. Come enjoy burgers, hot dogs, Boca burgers, and side dishes free of charge for all current Symbolic Systems students, alumni, and staff. This event will be a great opportunity for current students, particularly those graduating soon, to network with our illustrious alums.

Please RSVP by replying to this email by Wednesday, October 21st so we have an idea of how much food to buy.