{"id":4236,"date":"2012-06-25T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2012-06-23T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T16:09:12","slug":"pesetsky-bobaljik-moltmann-pancheva-guha-and-case-of-thousands-at-lissim-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/06\/25\/pesetsky-bobaljik-moltmann-pancheva-guha-and-case-of-thousands-at-lissim-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesetsky, Bobaljik, Moltmann, Pancheva, Guha and cast of thousands at LISSIM 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/pesetsky\/\"><strong>David Pesetsky<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is just back from teaching a two-week class on nominal case at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosssil.in\/lissim_6.htm\">6th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains<\/a><\/strong> (LISSIM 6) in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidhbari\">Sidhbari,<\/a> a town in the Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh (the state just north of Punjab, where the Himalayas begin). \u00a0The faculty list was a real 1990s MIT Linguistics reunion, including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bobaljik.uconn.edu\/JDB\/Home.html\">Jonathan Bobaljik<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PhD 1995) (who taught his new book on the cross-linguistic morphology of comparatives, superlatives and inchoatives), <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/semantics.univ-paris1.fr\/\">Friederike Moltmann<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PhD 1992) (who taught about her own new work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=tropes+moltmann&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">tropes<\/a>), and mid-1990s visitor (and frequent returnee) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~pancheva\/\">Roumyana Pancheva<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(who taught a class about her research on comparatives and the entire history of work on the topic). \u00a0Among the twenty or so superb students in attendance was incoming first-year student <strong>Ishani Guha.<\/strong>\u00a0 David writes: &#8220;It was a fantastic summer school, with the most engaged students and dedicated organizers that I have ever seen (not to mention great colleagues)&#8221;. \u00a0Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=oa.10150950116537878&amp;type=1\">here<\/a> for some photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pesetsky\u00a0is just back from teaching a two-week class on nominal case at the 6th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM 6) in Sidhbari, a town in the Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh (the state just north of Punjab, where the Himalayas begin). \u00a0The faculty list was a real 1990s MIT Linguistics reunion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}