Atintono in Ghanian press

PhD student Sam Atintono has an article with Eugene Fasola at modernghana.com on “Making Gurene an Examinable subject at the BECE: facts and reflections”.  Check it out here.

Ricardo and John on lingbuzz

Ricardo and John’s paper denying the existence of special clitics is climbing the charts on lingbuzz—at the time of writing, it’s the fourth most downloaded paper of the week.  Check it out, here.

Professor John Payne

Manchet is thrilled to be able to report that colleague John Payne has been promoted to Professor!  Congratulations, John!

MFM special session audio archive

Colleague Yuni Kim has posted archive recordings of the presentations and discussion of the MFM special session on “The History of Phonological Theory” up on her website.  Check it out here.

There are no special clitics on lingbuzz

Details here, according to Ricardo and John.

Yáñez-Bouza at ICAME

Via John Payne:

Congratulations to Nuria, who won an honorable mention at the ICAME
(corpus linguistics) conference in Lancaster this last weekend: prize
for the best paper at the conference by a young researcher. Nuria’s
paper, jointly with Maria Rodriguez-Gil of Las Palmas, was entitled
“ECEG database: 18th century English grammars revisited”.

Well done, Nuria!

More on ICAME

Colleague Nuria Yáñez-Bouza was joined in Lancaster this last weekend at ICAME (a conference about corpus linguistics, the meaning of whose acronym Manchet can’t track down on their website…) by Eva Berlage and John Payne who spoke on “Pronominal one and relational nouns.”

Phonology meeting

Don’t miss the Manchester Phonology Meeting, taking place in Hulme Hall (as usual) from Thursday to Saturday. Details here!

Koontz-Garboden exhausting the pages in his passport

Colleague Andrew Koontz-Garboden has had a busy few weeks.  He was in Boston last week at SULA 5 (Semantics of the Under-represented Languages of the Americas), representing the Manchester Native American semanticists (who are hosting the next SULA in 2011).  This coming week, he heads to Madrid, for a workshop on Events across categories: Theoretical and experimental approaches to event structure.  A couple weeks later, you’ll find him in Stuttgart at Workshop on Roots: Word formation from the perspective of “core lexical elements.”

Inbal Arnon to join department as new psycholinguist

Manchet is very pleased to announce that Inbal Arnon, currently in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford, has accepted our offer for the Lectureship in Psycholinguistics!  Inbal’s interests, which can be read about in more detail here, lie at the interfaces of grammar, processing, and language acquisition, and her research in these areas is informed by a range of experimental methods on a variety of languages.  Manchet is very much looking forward to giving her a proper Mancunian welcome when she joins us in January, 2010!