Laudations are overdue for some spring QP defenses:
Hearty congratulations are due to Yaron McNabb for defending his second qualifying paper, titled “Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic.”
Congratulations also to Peter Klecha, who very successfully defended his first qualifying paper, “Modality and context-dependence in English futures.”
Great work, guys! Hope both of you had a great summer!
Third-year Ph.D. student Alice Lemieux had her paper, “A compositional approach to bipartite verbs in Washo”, accepted for presentation at the SSILA 2010 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, January 7-10. Way to go! Alice is also currently at the University of Rochester this fall as a member of the Human Language Processing Lab/Jaeger Lab.
. . . Stay tuned for a complete list of Chicago representatives at the LSA Annual Meeting! We trust it’s a sizable one this year.
Jackie Bunting’s article on Sranan, “‘Give’ and take: how dative gi contributed to the decline of ditransitive taki,” has just been published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (24: 199-217, 2009).
In addition, over the summer, Jason Riggle, Max Bane, and Morgan Sonderegger had their joint article “The VC Dimension of Constraint Based Grammars” published in Lingua (article currently online, soon to appear in print).
Proof positive of summer productivity at the U. of C. Congratulations!
Several of our current and former linguistics undergrads will be heading to graduate schools this Fall.
Eric Prendergast, who’s currently on a Fulbright fellowship researching in Macedonia, will be heading to Berkeley, joining fellow Chicago grads Clara Cohen and John Sylak in the Department of Linguistics.
Eric Morley, who has been serving in the Peace Corp in Benin the past couple years, will begin his graduate studies in emotion and speech synthesis at the Oregon Health and Science University.
Patrick Rich, our current BA/MA student, will begin PhD studies in Linguistics at Harvard.
Mitcho Erlewine, who was on a Fulbright fellowship teaching in Taiwan, but is now working for Ubiquity in Japan, will be heading to MIT.
Justin Murphy will be starting his master’s degree in Journalism at Syracuse University in the Fall.
Congratulations to all!
To commemorate this one-month mark after the closing of our fabulous CLS 45 conference, we’ve put up a summary page on the website so you can relive it. Be sure to check out the photo album, chock full of pictures from the conference and banquet, taken and compiled by our own Christina Weaver. Thanks again for helping us make CLS 45 great!
-Ryan Bochnak, Peter Klecha, Alice Lemieux, Nassira Nicola, Jasmin Urban, and Christina Weaver
CLS 45
Congratulations to Juan Bueno-Holle, Alice Lemieux and Ryan Bochnak for each successfully defending a qualifying paper this spring!
Juan defended his second QP, entitled “Lexical Tone in Isthmus Zapotec.” Meanwhile, Alice successfully defended her first QP, “A Reanalysis of Washo Bipartite Stems,” and Ryan defended his, “Half as a promiscuous modifier.” Great job to all of you—may there be more to come!
Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation
(Sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies)
Vowel variability within and between days
Shannon Heald (Psych, U. Chicago)
Friday, May 15 at 3:30pm, in the Karen Landahl Center (basement of Social Science)