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)
Rachel Lehr has been awarded an AAUW dissertation fellowship for her dissertation, Pashai Grammar. Rachel is in Afghanistan right now doing fieldwork on Pashai. Congratulations, Rachel!
…to Tommy Grano, who has successfully defended his second qualifying paper, “English Emotive Factive Verbs and the Semantics of Nonfinite Complementation.” Excellent work, Tommy!
Congratulations are due to Jasmin Urban and Malcolm Elliott for their recent QP defenses!
Jasmin successfully defended her first qualifying paper, ”Towards a unified theory of questions: What open questions can tell us about what questions mean,” on April 7.
Meanwhile, Malcolm passed his second QP, titled “Seeming and Believing: A look at perception verbs and evidential doubt in English.”
Both can now breathe a little easier and bask in a job well done!