Although colleague Eva Berlage teaches linguistics by day, by night she doubles as a paparazzo(a?). You can check out her handy-work from our departmental holiday party at Petra (from way back in December… Manchet’s fault, not Eva’s!) here.
Archive for February, 2009
Holiday party pics!
February 28, 2009Bermúdez-Otero in Chinese
February 28, 2009Manchet has just received word that colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero’s Cambridge Handbook of Phonology contribution, Diachronic Phonology, is to be translated into Chinese. Watch this space for news of its release!
Semantics Fest!
February 27, 2009The Greater Manchester linguistics scene will be well-represented at the 10th annual Semantics Fest on March 13 and 14 at Stanford, CA, which is featuring a series of talks by semanticist alumni of Stanford’s PhD program. Representing the Manchester Uni contingent of Stanford-trained semanticistics in Manchester (Martina Faller and Andrew Koontz-Garboden) is Andrew Koontz-Garboden, in two joint talks, one on “Ulwa Possessed Property Concepts” with Itamar Francez (U of Chicago), the other on “Questioning the Manner/Result Complementarity” with John Beavers (U of Texas, Austin). Representing Salford Uni is Stanford-trained semanticist Iván García-Álvarez with a paper entitled “Adjectival Associates of Exception Phrases.”
Theory and data: ILLS launch event
February 27, 2009Via Delia Bentley, Italian department colleague and ILLS director
To celebrate the launch of the INSTITUTE FOR LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDIES the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of the University of Manchester wishes to invite linguistics postgraduates from all over the country to a one-day training event on the theme of
THEORY AND DATA
24 April 2009
10.00–18.00
(University Place 3.204, Oxford Road, Manchester)Guest Speaker: Professor Peter Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics, SOAS.
The sessions will reflect the variety of theoretical approaches and language specialisms covered by the Institute:
Yaron Matras – Toward a theory of language contact: The place of diachronic, typological, and conversational data in an integrated model of grammar.
Guido Seiler – Why dialect geography matters.
Yuni Kim-Intonational variation in Huave.
Andrew Koontz-Garboden – Possessed property concepts in Ulwa: Why morphological syncretism matters and how to deal with it (based on research conducted with Itamar Francez, U of Chicago).
Iris Bachmann – Situating linguistic data: Investigating language and the media in Brazilian television.
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen – Do ‘literal’ meanings play a role in actual
communication? An empirical study.Each session will consist of a 30-minute talk plus 15 minutes of debate led by a discussant. Attendance at the event (including refreshments and lunch) is FREE, but email registration is required by 10 April. If you wish to register, please email Susana Afonso @ su_cavadas@hotmail.com providing your name and affiliation. MA, MPhil and PhD students welcome!
Manchet’s new (generic) look
February 27, 2009Avid readers will note the change in look of Manchet. We had been using a lovely custom built css stylesheet by one of our PhD students, Rob Drummond. Apparently wordpress no longer allows custom css stylesheets without paying, so they’ve reverted us back to the bland default. Manchet hopes to make up for the vanilla appearance with non-vanilla content. Either way, apologies for the fact that you’ll now have to seek out your Manchester tart elsewhere!
Koontz-Garboden in NLLT
February 27, 2009Colleague Andrew Koontz-Garboden has a paper in the first issue of 2009 in the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory entitled “Anticausativization.” Check it out here.
Koontz-Garboden in Madrid
February 24, 2009Colleague Andrew Koontz-Garboden is one among many invited speakers at a workshop in Madrid on “Events across categories.” He’ll speak on “Derived statives.” Details, via the Linguist List, here.
Language Sandwidge
February 23, 2009Via David D:
We start this semester’s programme on Tuesday 24th. Suzanne Wagner will be
discussing the morphosyntactic information in Alexander Ellis’s 19C dialect survey:‘On Early English Pronunciation – an early SED?’
Usual meeting arrangements: Tuesday 1-2 pm, room S.1.5, hot and cold drinks
provided.From now on after our belated start there is a full programme at least up to Easter
(http://tinyurl.com/LangSand).
Kim PhD dissertation
February 20, 2009Colleague Yuni Kim’s UC Berkeley PhD dissertation “Topics in the phonology and morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave” has just been advertised on the Linguist List. Check out the posting here and the actual PhD here.
In praise of small languages
February 20, 2009A Guardian editorial “In praise of small languages” here.
