Author: mpham
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The new cohort of 2013
2012 has come and gone and with nary an apocalypse in sight, we have the opportunity instead to extend a warm welcome to a new incoming cohort to the department — the department lounge has never seemed as full (and in need of better ventilation). Here’s a quick rundown of this year’s new cast of…
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Conference on Gesture, Sign and Language
We invite you to a conference inaugurating the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago. The conference, which is jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities, will be held on March 8-9, 2013, in Breasted Hall in the Oriental Institute (see the attached poster and schedule or the…
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Cisneros co-authored journal publishing
Congratulations to Carlos Cisneros for having a co-authored paper published in a journal recently! Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence, Carlos Cisneros. (2013). “Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages”. International Jounal of American Linguistics 79(1): 61 – 96.
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Welcome new first year graduate students!
A big Windy City welcome all of our new first-year graduate students this year! With so many of them to get to know, here’s a little cheat sheet for you: Ross Burkholder is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied Linguistics and German. Linguistically, he has many areas of interest,…