news and updates
Oct. 22
The schedule for the
NELS Bus Shuttle ["Yellow 36", Northampton – UMass] is now available. Right now, the only hotel stop is the Best Western in Northampton. If you are staying in a hotel on Route 9 [Russell Street], e.g. the Econo Lodge or the Holiday Inn Express, and would like to be picked up by the NELS bus, let us know right away!
Oct. 20
- One week until NELS 36. Thanks to everybody who pre-registered. If you haven't done so, but plan to attend, please consider to still pre-register. It will safe you time at the regstration desk, and you'll get a nice printed name-tag :).
- We'll still try to accommodate you for last minute arrangements for NELS Shutteling from Bradley airport. Please let us know ASAP if you want to use this service.
- Day parking passes for the Campus Garage are now available at the registration desk. You can enter the garage without the pass.
- Travel safe! See you here soon!
Sept. 26
The ride and room share board does now have a section where you can post about sharing a hotel room.
Sept. 21
- Sorry, we’re out of crash space.
- We have a ride board now. If you want to offer a space in your car, or want to check whether other people from your area are offering rides, click here.
Sept. 20
The accomodation and travel page has been updated with a few more rates for hotels in the area. These rooms are only guaranteed to be saved for NELS participants for a very limited time, in some cases only up to October 3, so we encourage you to look into booking a room early.
Sept. 19
The informations on accomodation and traveling are updated. Please make sure to reserve a room as soon as possible, as hotel space tends to fill up quickly during the fall in Massachusetts.
Sept. 9
The preliminary NELS36 program, along with abstracts, is now posted!
Please email us if there are any errors.
Also registration is now available. Register before October 1 and receive a $10 early registration discount.
| NELS36 INVITED SPEAKERS |
- Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
- Lisa Cheng (Universiteit Leiden)
- J. Michael Terry (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- Bruce Tesar (Rutgers University)
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| NELS36 SPECIAL SESSIONS |
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Topics at the Morphology-Phonology Interface
Invited Speaker: Bruce Tesar
This session will include regular-length talks that address
issues at the morphology-phonology boundary, including:
- morphological categories and boundaries in phonology
- learnability of morphological contrasts
- phonologically-conditioned allomorphy & paradigm gaps
- contrast neutralization/preservation in paradigms
- paradigm uniformity, OO-correspondence, stratal OT
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Semantics of Under-represented Languages
Invited Speaker: J. Michael Terry
This session will include regular-length talks that address the
semantics of under-represented languages, including non-standard dialects
of well-studied languages. Areas include:
- theoretical semantics
- experimental work on semantics
- semantic fieldwork
- morpho-semantics
- the syntax-semantics interface
- the semantics-pragmatics interface
- information structure
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Important NELS36 dates:
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 15, 2005 [passed]
- Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2005 [passed]
- Conference: October 28-30, 2005
Contact us
| by email (preferred) |
nels AT linguist DOT umass DOT edu |
| by mail |
NELS36 organizers, Dept of Linguistics, South College Rm 226.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 U.S.A. |
| by phone |
+1 (413) 545-0885 |
| by fax |
+1 (413) 545-2792 |
principal organizers: Jan Anderssen, Shigeto Kawahara, Florian Schwarz, Helen Stickney, Anne-Michelle Tessier