LINGUIST List 13.1162

Fri Apr 26 2002

FYI: Ling Humor, Summer School, Howard Lasnik

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Mike Maxwell, humor
  • Tobias Scheer, 9th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar
  • Scott Fults, U of Maryland announces appointment of Howard Lasnik

    Message 1: humor

     Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:40:45 -0400
    From: Mike Maxwell <maxwellldc.upenn.edu>
    Subject: humor


    I don't know when you might post linguistic humor again, but here's one that should tickle any linguist who has ever puzzled over donkey sentences: a dog sentence!

    "There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." - Anonymous

    Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium maxwellldc.upenn.edu

    Message 2: 9th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar

     Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:58:52 +0200
    From: Tobias Scheer <Tobias.Scheerunice.fr>
    Subject: 9th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar


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    9th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar

    We are pleased to (belatedly, sorry) announce this year's Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar, to be held in

    Novi Sad, Serbia from July 22nd - August 3rd

    registration is taking place at

    http://egg.auf.net

    where more detailed information is available. Deadline for application: May 15th Students from Central and Eastern European countries can apply for financial support (covering travel, visa and accommodation expenses). There will be an introductory and an advanced track. The list of courses is appended below.

    Tobias Scheer on behalf of GLEE (Generative Linguistics in Eastern Europe)

    Introductory Syntax - Semantics -Acquisition Klaus Abels (UConn) - Linguistics is Biology: An Introduction to Basic Issues and Concepts Michal Starke (NYU) - Basic Introduction to Syntactic Theory Hedde Zeijlstra (Amsterdam) - Introduction to Semantics John Bailyn (SUNY) - Comparative Slavic Syntax Peter Svenonius (Tromso) - Scandinavian Syntax Olga Tomic (Leiden) - From 'Syntactic Structures' to the Minimalist Program Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) - Introduction to the Semantics of Events Ute Bohnacker (Lund) - Bilingual child language acquisition Andrew Nevins (MIT) - Why Irregular English Plurals are Morphology as Usual Ad Neeleman (UCL) - An Introduction to Morphological Interfaces Phonology Haike Jacobs (Nijmegen) - Introduction to Non-linear Phonology Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) - Contemporary approaches to historical phonology Jonathan Kaye (Gerona) - Constituent Structure in Phonology Martin Kraemer (Ulster) - A typology of vowel harmony

    Advanced Syntax - Semantics -Acquisition Klaus Abels (UConn) - The syntax of preposition stranding John Bailyn (SUNY) - Slavic Word Order Ad Neeleman (UCL) - The Configurational Matrix Michal Starke (NYU) - The Day Syntax Ate Morphology Peter Svenonius (Tromso) - Prepositions and case Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) - Aspectual (De)composition Hedde Zeijlstra (Amsterdam) - The Syntax and Semantics of Negation Ute Bohnacker (Lund) - How language acquisition turned generative Andrew Nevins (MIT) - Reduplication: The Computation from Merge to PF Olga Tomic (Leiden) - Topics in Balkan Syntax Phonology Haike Jacobs (Nijmegen) - Optimaility Theory: Stress, Change and Acquisition Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) - Issues and implications in segmental structure Jonathan Kaye (Gerona) - Phonology-Morphology Interface Martin Kraemer (Ulster) - Derivational aspects of vowel harmony in a nonderivational framework (OT)

    Message 3: U of Maryland announces appointment of Howard Lasnik

     Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Scott Fults <swfwam.umd.edu>
    Subject: U of Maryland announces appointment of Howard Lasnik


    UMCP announces appointment of Howard Lasnik

    COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Department of Linguistics in the College of ARHU at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce the appointment of Howard Lasnik as Professor of Linguistics, beginning Fall 2002. Since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1972, Howard Lasnik has been on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, where he was named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. He has held visiting positions at numerous universities and in 2000 was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has played a prominent role in linguistic theorizing in the generative-transformational framework advanced by Noam Chomsky (MIT). Within this framework, Howard Lasnik's own work has encompassed most of the central areas of theoretical syntax, including phrase structure, movement, scope, anaphora, ellipsis, and verbal morphology, as well as more foundational issues of language learnability and the general properties of linguistic theories. His publications include six books and more than seventy-five articles, three of them co-authored with Noam Chomsky. His two most recent books are Minimalist Analysis (1999, Blackwell) and Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory (2000 MIT Press, with M. Depiante and A. Stepanov). He is known as much for his teaching and advising as for his research, having supervised 40 Ph.D. dissertations, including those of two current faculty in the Department of Linguistics at UMCP, Rosalind Thornton and Juan Uriagereka. This appointment will also reunite him with a former colleague of 15 years, Stephen Crain (Chair). Howard Lasnik has won numerous teaching and research awards, and was honored with a festschrift published by MIT Press, on the occasion of his 25th year of teaching. To quote Noam Chomsky:

    "For thirty years, Howard Lasnik has been a leading figure in the study of language, with fundamental contributions in many areas and unparalleled success in teaching and research supervision. He will be a wonderful addition to an already outstanding department. "

    In addition to being one of the world's leading linguists, Howard Lasnik is a fully certified teacher of Scottish Country Dancing, and has taught classes and workshops all over New England and in California. He also plays drums in five nationally known Scottish Country Dance bands.