Month: February 2012

  • WSCLA 17 Program

    The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will take place at the University of Chicago on March 9-11 in Ida Noyes Hall. In addition to the general session, there will be a special themed session focus on information structure as well as a round table discussion with the invited…

  • Chicagoans to present at WCCFL 30

    Several Chicago linguists will be presenting at WCCFL 30 at UC Santa Cruz! Peter Alrenga (former post doc, now at Boston University), Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: A New Standard of Comparison Jesse Harris (BA/MA 2003, now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Pomona College)On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English Steve Sanpietro, Ming Xiang,…

  • Cantonese linguists heading to OSU

    Several Chicago linguists will be heading to Ohio State in March to present at the Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics: Jackson Lee: Representation of contour tone in Cantonese Holman Tse (MA, 2007): Lexical tone effects on voice onset time in Cantonese Alan Yu is one of the invited speakers. His talk is titled “Determinants…

  • Chicago linguists heading to PLC

    Julia Thomas and Jackson Lee will be presenting at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 23-25. Julia Thomas, Holly Craig and S. Hensel:  “A look at copula usage in school-age AAE speakers” Jackson Lee: “The representation of contour tones in Cantonese”  

  • Baglini at GLOW

    Rebekah Baglini and Michael Erlewine (BA, MA, 2007) will present at the 35th GLOW Colloquium to be held on March 28-30, 2012, at the University of Potsdam. Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: Evidence from Wolof Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: Association with traces and thecopy theory of movement