I just came back from a colloquium trip to UMass Amherst. One thing I found out about which had for some inexplicable reason escaped my notice is a new newsletter “What’s happening in South College”:http://people.umass.edu/potts/whisc/. While there are a few things of only local interest to current UMass linguists, most of the content would seem to be relevant for the rest of world as well. Check it out.
Especially the photos in the “December 11″:http://people.umass.edu/potts/whisc/whisc-2003-12-11.html issue from a holiday party on December 10, which featured “a cake decorated with a frosting-image of Barbara Partee’s new book”. Here’s one of the pictures:
Lisa Selkirk cuts the cake while Barbara Partee looks on.
BTW. Barbara’s book Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by Barbara Partee is a must have. And not just for conveniently collecting all her important papers. While I was waiting for my colloquium talk, I got to read the first few pages of what looks like a fabulous personal memoir of the history of linguistic semantics, which appears as an introduction to the book. Unfortunately, the book is not yet available in bookstores (Barbara just got a shipment of advance copies). I hope to pick one up at the “LSA Annual Meeting”:http://www.lsadc.org/2004annmeet/index.html, which takes place in Boston this year.
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