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Month: April 2009

  • Spring and colloquia are in the air

    Spring 2009 colloquia are off and running. This full and final season of talks in the 2009 colloquium series began on April 2 with by MIT’s Adam Albright on “Rabbitometry vs. rabbitography: phonetic faithfulness and affix-by-affix differences in derived words.” Coming up in the following weeks are several other fantastic speakers, including April 30: Teresa Satterfield, University of…

  • Chicago alumni goings-on

    Chicago linguistics alumnus Aaron Griffith, now a lecturer at the University of Vienna, had his article, “The animacy hierarchy and the distribution of the notae augentes in Old Irish,” published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Ériu. Aaron’s recent conference presentations have included “Raising of *e to *i before *µ in Old Irish” at the Sound of Indo-European conference in Copenhagen this month, and “pro in…

  • QP success!

    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…

  • Friedman: here, there, everywhere

    While in Macedonia this year on Fulbright-Hays and Guggenheim grants, Slavic linguistics professor Victor Friedman has still managed to faithfully update us on his prolific activities abroad. Here’s what he’s been doing: Recently published articles: “Turkish Presents in Romani Dialects.”  Turcological Letters to Bernt Brendemoen (Festschrift), ed. by É. Csató & al. Oslo: Insitute for Comparative research in…

  • Midtlyng at UIUC African Linguistics conference

    Patrick Midtlyng gave a talk entitled “The effects of speech rate on initial plosives and click accompaniments in Zulu” at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Friday, April 10. Great job, Patrick!