What are principal parts, and what can they tell us about an inflectional system's morphological complexity?

Speaker:  Raphael Finkel

Authors: Raphael Finkel and Gregory Stump

Abstract: In natural-language pedagogy, principal parts are used as a concise way of summarizing a lexeme's full paradigm of inflected forms.  In the context of morphological typology, principal parts may be used as a means of gauging both the nature and the degree of the complexity exhibited by a language's inflectional paradigms.  We show that principal parts afford several different ways of measuring morphological complexity.  We define principal parts, propose desired characteristics (uniqueness, uniformity, optimality), then present seven derived measures of complexity.  We illustrate these measures by referring to Pāli, a middle Indic language.

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Location:
Davis Marksbury Building, 1st floor auditorium

GWS Symposium: Tamara Mose Brown, "Building a Community of Mothers: Under the Watchful Eye"

GWS Symposium:

A gathering of people from the university and the community who will speak to various issues with regard to motherhood, including but not limited to: Mothering the elderly

Queer Parenting

Mothering while in the academy

Mothering, class, and reproduction

Tamara Mose Brown, author of Raising Brooklyn:  Nannies, Childcare, and Carribeans Creating Community, will lead the discussion around the idea of "Building a Community of Mothers: Under the Watchful Eye". 

18th Floor of Patterson Office Tower, 1:00pm

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Location:
18th floor Patterson Office Tower

Tamara Mose Brown: "Nanny Networks: A Discussion about Raising Brooklyn"

Tamara Mose Brown, author of Raising Brooklyn:  Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community,  will be presenting a talk titled "Nanny Networks:  A Discussion about Raising Brooklyn".

4:00pm in the President's Room of the Singletary Center.

Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.

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Location:
President's Room, Singletary Center

29 Miles for POW-MIA: ROTC Cadets Run To Remember

Last November, to memoralize American Prisoners of War and Missing In Action, ROTC cadets ran 29 miles from UK's Barker Hall to Frankfort's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We sat down with Air Force ROTC cadets Christopher Corley, Melissa Matthews, Erin Jewell, and Andrew Hoch, all of whom ran the entire 29 miles, to discuss their experience and what POW-MIA means to them.

This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.

Eat, Eat, Eat

After settling into our new digs, we walked over to Shlomi’s for a simple but satisfying meal of vegetable bean soup, borekas (delicious filled pastries, pictured below, photo credit: Jim Ridolfo), and pita on, oddly enough, Abraham Lincoln Street.  

Plate of borekas and Arabic language cellphone ad for Orange.

[Photo: Bulgarian-cheese filled borekas above, Arabic language ad for Orange cell phone company below, photo taken by Jim Ridolfo]

And eat, eat, eat is what we’ve continued to do. The weekend begins here on Thurs. evening and lasts through Friday until Saturday night at sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath comes to a close. Like the people living here, the city also pauses to rest a bit, as public transportation and most shops and restaurants shut down from Friday night sundown until three stars appear in the sky on Saturday night. Consequently, Friday morning is the time when people catch up with friends, and the city hums with life, as everyone bustles about to buy groceries and make preparations for the Sabbath.

 

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