{"id":13547,"date":"2020-08-31T06:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:52:32","slug":"summer-news-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/08\/31\/summer-news-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer news 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have some summer news to share with you:<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n<!-- wp:list --><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:list -->\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<div><strong>Tracy Kelley<\/strong> (3rd year): &#8220;This summer I spent time teaching W\u00f4pan\u00e2\u00f4t8\u00e2\u00f4k \u0091Wampanoag Language\u0092 to Tribal Elders for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlrp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WLRP\u0092s<\/a> first remote Elders language class. We focused primarily on locatives, asking questions using the subordinative, and daily routine language. We also played interactive immersion games remotely, such as \u00f4m\u00e2sh! (Go Fish), Jeopardy, and Pictionary to reinforce our target vocabulary in a fun way.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>&#8220;Additionally, I continued research on nominalization and worked on my W\u00f4pan\u00e2\u00f4t8\u00e2\u00f4k website which will be launching next month. The website is being developed to increase accessibility to W\u00f4pan\u00e2\u00f4t8\u00e2\u00f4k for tribal families.\u00a0 One of the components I\u0092m most excited about is the audio! This will be our tribal nation\u0092s first website for language learning.&#8221;<\/div>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Patrick\u00a0Elliott<\/strong> (visiting faculty): &#8220;I&#8217;ve finalized a number of manuscripts, including my paper on intensionality (<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005107<\/a>), and a response to Chierchia&#8217;s recent paper on weak crossover (<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005297<\/a>). I also have a paper to appear in the proceedings of WCCFL 38, which extends some material on continuation semantics from the appendix of my intensionality paper (<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/005297<\/a>). More recently, Yasu Sudo and I gave a joint talk on crossover phenomena beyond anaphora at SALT 30 (<a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/avms8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/osf.io\/avms8\/<\/a>). More generally, I&#8217;ve been trying to teach myself about a bunch of topics, including epistemic modality and truthmaker semantics. If you&#8217;re interested in chatting about any of these things (or indeed anything else!) do get in touch - i&#8217;ve been desperately missing the random corridor interactions from the days of yore.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>David Pesetsky<\/strong> taught a two-week class on &#8220;The Unity of Movement&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyi.spb.ru\/news\/\">Virtual New York Institute<\/a>\u00a0\u0097 alas from his living room via Zoom rather than in non-virtual St. Petersburg, Russia as originally planned.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some summer news to share with you: Tracy Kelley (3rd year): &#8220;This summer I spent time teaching W\u00f4pan\u00e2\u00f4t8\u00e2\u00f4k \u0091Wampanoag Language\u0092 to Tribal Elders for WLRP\u0092s first remote Elders language class. We focused primarily on locatives, asking questions using the subordinative, and daily routine language. We also played interactive immersion games remotely, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13576,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}