Category: faculty

  • Chicago Linguists heading to LSA in Boston

    The University of Chicago has another great showing at the annual meeting of the LSA (Boston) this year! The following papers were presented: Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, and Karlos Arregi: Number marking in Western Armenian: a non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy Rebekah Baglini: The lexical semantics of derived states  (Poster) Rebekah Baglini, Lenore Grenoble, and…

  • Francez joins department as assistant professor

    Itamar Francez, who’s currently a Harper-Schmitt Fellow, will be joining our department in the Fall as a tenure-track assistant professor. Please join me in welcoming him on this new, more durable basis!

  • Merchant received the Quantrell Award

    Jason Merchant was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on May 24, 2012. Congratulations, Jason. Well-deserved!

  • Chicagoans at the 2013 LSA Institute

    The 2013 LSA Institute will be held from June 24 to July 19 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Several Chicago faculty and (so-to-be) alumni of the Linguistics department will be teaching courses there: Computational Modeling of Sound Change: James Kirby (PhD 2010, now at University of Edinburgh) and Morgan Sonderegger Individual differences in sound change: Jeff…

  • Merchant gave colloquium talk at McGill

    Jason Merchant gave a colloquium talk on “More comparatives than you can shake a stick at: The case of Greek” at the Department of Linguistics at McGill University.