Whamit!

Whamit! is on a break and will resume at the beginning of IAP.

Because of the holiday-shortened week, Whamit! has no news items to report. Enjoy the holiday and the long weekend! We’ll be back to the usual jam-packed life in the department next week.

The purpose of Whamit! is to keep the MIT linguistics community informed about events of interest, news, and accomplishments. This year, we welcome David Pesetsky as a new editor, joining Adam Albright, Kai von Fintel, and Jonah Katz.

Please let us know about goings-on, so we can share them. In this and the next few issues, we will also have some news about what members of the department did over the summer. So, please send us info about that.

You can email us at whamit AT mit DOT edu. We also welcome any and all feedback on the newsletter.

Whamit! is a few weeks old now. The editors are grateful that for the most part, talk and event announcements are put out ahead of the early Monday morning release of the week’s issue of Whamit! It would be great if that could be maintained and even institutionalized some more.

We would really like to encourage everyone, faculty and students, to share news about their professional lives via Whamit! Conference acceptances, successful defenses, colloquia trips, publications, etc. Please make Whamit! more interesting and useful to the community!

This is the first issue of our (more or less) weekly newsletter. Your editors are Adam Albright, Kai von Fintel, and Jonah Katz. Thanks to Chris Potts (WHISC) and Jim McCloskey (WHASC) for advice. Thanks to Chris Naylor for technical assistance.

Members of the MIT Linguistics community are urged to supply material for the newsletter. The easiest way is to email us at whamit AT mit DOT edu. Please also send us any and all feedback on the newsletter.