Weekly Digest – February 24, 2020

This week in the linguistics department:

Monday (2/24), 3:30pm in the Conference Room, Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig) will present a colloquium: “Indexical Shift and the grammar of intensionality“.

Tuesday (2/18), 9:30am in the Conference Room, Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting!Ian Rigby will present “Information Theoretic Constraints in English Name Blending”.

Tuesday (2/18), 2pm in the Reading Room, PhonLunch! Chloe Gfeller will be presenting “On the predictability of rhythmic structures in speech perception”.

Tuesday (2/21), 2:30pm in GFS205, Syntax+! Discussion of “Reducing pro and PRO to a single source” with Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig).

Tuesday (2/18), 3:30pm in WPH 2020, Meaning Lab! Jaime Castillo-Gamboa will be leading a discussion.

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Roumyana Pancheva gave a colloquium at the University of Maryland, College Park entitled “Numerals and number features” on Friday, Feb 21, 2020.

Congratulations to Suzanne Curtin (PhD in Linguistics, USC 2002) on her appointment as the Dean of Faculty of Graduate Studies at Brock University starting in July 2020! Suzanne is currently the Associate Dean (Students) in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Graduate Studies and a Professor in the Department of Psychology. You can read more here: https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2020/02/university-announces-its-new-dean-of-graduate-studies/