The McGill’s Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates is happening at McGill (in Montréal, just about 6 hours North of here) in late March (March 23–25), and they’ve sent around an announcement inviting submission of abstracts. The deadline is February 26, which is very soon. If you are an undergraduate and have something you’ve worked on …
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The machine on which this blog is run is having some technical trouble and needs to have a couple of bits replaced. (Literally, though I suppose it’s really just one: Somewhere in its gigabyte of memory, there is a single bit that won’t turn on, but this still warrants replacing the memory chip. Also, the …
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I just noticed that I forgot to update the course web page, and I have now done it. It previously contained incorrect information about the readings for Tuesday. The readings for Tuesday are those listed on the homework sheet I handed out: Rizzi 1997 and Rizzi 1999. (If you read the Ko paper, sorry about …
I am happy to report that one can still find the following poem on the web: This is the CP that Rizzi built
Harvard is once again holding an undergraduate linguistics colloquium, April 28-29, 2007. The Call for Papers indicates a deadline of March 16 for one-page abstracts proposing a talk or roundtable discussion. So, if you have a project underway that you might like to report on or discuss, by all means submit an abstract (I can …
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