Month: June 2010

  • Dissertation proposal defended

    Congratulations to Yaron McNabb on the successful defense of his dissertation prospectus, “The syntax and semantics of intensifiers and other degree expressions”!

  • Qualifying papers defended

    Congratulations to the grad students who successfully defended a qualifying paper during Spring 2010! Ryan Bochnak: “My QP exceeds your QP in awesomeness: Exceed comparatives in Luganda” Juan Bueno-Holle: “Accessibility and Preferred Argument Structure in Isthmus Zapotec” Tim Grinsell: “Vagueness in the Grammatical Perfective” Stefanie Kuzmack: “The debonding of –ish: from affix to word” Martina…

  • End-of-the-year shindig

    The Linguistics Department’s end-of-year barbecue will take place this Friday, June 11, from 1:00–3:00 p.m. on the Midway Plaisance, right outside our very own Classics building.  Come enjoy hearty BBQ fare, celebrate the end of another academic year, enjoy the late-spring sunshine at the home of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and say your goodbyes to…

  • Last LCC workshop of the year

    The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computation (along with our other graduate workshops, Language Variation and Change and Semantics and Philosophy of Language) is wrapping up another academic year. Please join us this Friday at a special time for the final LCC talk of the year, presented by the U. of C.’s James Kirby. He will be…

  • Two upcoming defenses

    This week the department is anticipating two defenses based on syntax-semantics research. In the first, on Wednesday, fourth-year  Yaron McNabb is scheduled to defend his dissertation prospectus on ‘The syntax and semantics of intensifiers and other degree expressions’ at 12:00 p.m. in the department lounge. Then on Thursday, June 10, Suwon Yoon will be defending her…