Weekly Digest 10/02

Mairym Lloréns is putting together funds to help those in need after the hurricane in Puerto Rico; if you can help with donations, or if you can volunteer your time to assist with paperwork and other tasks, please contact Mai!

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This week, in the linguistics department….

Monday (10/02) at 2:30pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch! Yifan Yang will talk about “Gestural coordination of vocalic sequences in Yanggu Chinese” and Miran Oh will present “Sub-syllable domain of corrective focus in Korean”.

And also on Monday (10/02), at 3:30pm in VKC203: Syntax+! Sarah Lee will present her work on “The Unavailability of Superlative Movement out of Korean Nominal Phrases” and Tommy Lee will discuss “Deontic modality in Japanese: Positioning the recommendation-type modal”.

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Last week, Andrew Simpson was trying to find homes for four abandoned kittens: we are happy to announce that all have found happy homes, two of them with graduate students in our department! If you haven’t met them already, here are Tito (by himself and with Haley’s dog, Cosmo) and Blade (hanging out with Charlie in one of his department trips):

Thanks Andrew and to everyone else in the department who has been helping out with these furry new friends!