Category: faculty

  • Prof. Giannakidou Announced as 10th Annual PLA Symposium Keynote Speaker

    The Purdue Linguistics Association will be hosting its 10th Annual Symposium on April 10th and 11th. They are a regional symposium that highlights the work of exceptional undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate linguists. In addition to presentations from students representing a diversity of research topics in linguistics, they will have a special session titled ‘Scalar and…

  • HSA Lecture Series: Greek Language and Bilingualism

    Professor Anastasia Giannakidou will be giving a lecture on Greek language and bilingualism on Wednesday, April 1st, 6:00pm in Harper 140.  Please refer to the Greek Biligualism Lecture Ad for more details.

  • Chicagoans head to LSA!

    Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 89th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations to all! Asia Pietraszko “Discourse configurationality and agreement in Ndebele” Emily Hanink “The `Missing-P’ Phenomenon in German: Free Relatives are Super Light-headed” Alan Yu, Daniel Chen, Katie Franich, Yosh Halberstam, Jacob Phillips, & Betsy Pillion…

  • Bochnak defended dissertation

    Congratulation to Ryan Bochnak, who has successfully defensed his dissertation, titled “Cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of comparatives” today! Great job, Ryan! The chair of his dissertation committee is Chris Kennedy.

  • Francez and Bochnak at SALT 23

    Both Itamar Francez and Ryan Bochnak will be presenting at SALT 23 on May 3-5. The titles of their presentations are Ashwini Deo, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: From change to value difference in degree achievements Ryan Bochnak: Scale exhaustivity and the modification condition (talk alternate)