Category: alumni
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Chicago Linguists at BLS 38
On Feb 11-12, several U of C linguists will be presenting at BLS 38: Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: evidence from Wolof Andrew Dombrowski: Multiple relative marking in 19th century West Rumelian Turkish Matthew Faytak (BA, 2011): Logical sonority scales and turbulence in fricative-vowel languages Jackson Lee: The representation of contour tones in…
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Ball heading to MacEwan
Chris Ball (Ph.D. 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science at MacEwan University, in Edmonton. He starts in August 2012. He is currently the Robert A. and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Congratulations, Chris!
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Yoon named Humboldt Fellow!
Suwon Yoon (Ph.D. 2011) has been named a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. She will be based at the Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany.
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Giannakidou in Korea
Anastasia Giannakidou gave two talks at Seoul National University titled “Referential vagueness and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean” and “Wh-interminates and free choice: the view from Korean.” She also jointly presented a talk with Suwon Yoon (PhD 2011) and Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) on “On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives” at…
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Portland here we come!
An unprecedentedly large contingent of Chicagoans will be heading to the annual meeting of the LSA and SSILA (*) in Portland next January: Peter Alrenga, Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: Standard of Comparison/Scope of Comparison Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang: How beautiful is a pretty girl? Scalar implicatures and context effects with gradable adjectives Ryan…