Month: October 2011
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Straughn defended dissertation!
Chris Straughn successfully defended his dissertation “Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh” on October 25. His committee consists of Victor Friedman (chair), Lenore Grenoble, and Kagan Arik. Way to go, Chris!
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Portland here we come!
An unprecedentedly large contingent of Chicagoans will be heading to the annual meeting of the LSA and SSILA (*) in Portland next January: Peter Alrenga, Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: Standard of Comparison/Scope of Comparison Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang: How beautiful is a pretty girl? Scalar implicatures and context effects with gradable adjectives Ryan…
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Hearty welcome to the incoming first years!
A very warm welcome to this year’s incoming first-year graduate students! Here’s a little bit about each of them: Helena Aparicio Terrasa was born in Mallorca, Spain. She earned a B.A. in Humanities and a one year MA in Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Before joining the linguistics department at the University of…
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Chicagoans to NELS 42
Many current and former Chicago linguists will be heading to Toronto in November for NELS 42: Ryan Bochnack: The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo Jon Keane, Diane Brentari, & Jason Riggle: Co-articulation in ASL fingerspelling Martina Martinovic: The subject/non-subject asymmetry in Wolof Yaron McNabb: Hebrew and Arabic definite marking as post-syntactic local dislocation…
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NSF grant awarded to Grenoble and Sadock for work on West Greenlandic
Lenore Grenoble and Jerry Sadock received an NSF grant this summer to continue their work on West Greenlandic. The title and abstract of the project is given below. Congratulations! The lexicon of a polysynthetic language (#1056497) West Greenlandic, the national language of Greenland, is an Inuit language closely related to other Inuit languages spoken in…