Month: October 2008

  • Coming soon: Chicago mini-workshop on Basque linguistics

    The department is proud to announce the first Chicago Mini-Workshop on Basque Linguistics will be held on Monday, October 27. The program will include talks by Ricardo Etxepare of the University of the Basque Country on “Ways of building syntactic focus in Spanish and Basque”;  U of C’s Anastasia Giannokodou on “Contextual domain restriction across languages”;…

  • Chicago Linguistic Society site launch

    The highly anticipated and newly redesigned web page of the venerable Chicago Linguistic Society has now been launched, so please be sure to visit the new site for more information and updates from CLS 45!  humanities.uchicago.edu/cls/   

  • Wier awarded Fulbright-Hayes grant

    Thomas Wier was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant to do dialectological study of morphological and syntactic feature hierarchies across six Georgian dialects and two other Kartvelian languages. He will begin his journey in Leipzig and move to Tbilisi for fieldwork in February. Congratulations, Tom!

  • Department welcomes new faces!

    A warm welcome to this year’s cohort of new graduate students as well as Luisandro Mendes de Souza, who is visiting us from Brazil. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: Carissa Abrego: “I come to Chicago after living in sunny Southern California for 21 years. My undergraduate years were spent first at UCLA…

  • LSA and SSILA Acceptances

    Chicago will be well-represented at the upcoming Jaunary LSA and SSILA in San Francisco! Congratulations to the following students and faculty for their acceptances! LSA Peter Alrenga: Stipulated vs. Asserted Anaphora. Adam Baker: Phonology as Compression: Capturing Vowel Harmony. Tommy Grano: Predicating gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: Should we posit POS? April Grotberg: The prosody…