Month: February 2012
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Chicago Linguists at BLS 38
On Feb 11-12, several U of C linguists will be presenting at BLS 38: Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: evidence from Wolof Andrew Dombrowski: Multiple relative marking in 19th century West Rumelian Turkish Matthew Faytak (BA, 2011): Logical sonority scales and turbulence in fricative-vowel languages Jackson Lee: The representation of contour tones in…
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Ball heading to MacEwan
Chris Ball (Ph.D. 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science at MacEwan University, in Edmonton. He starts in August 2012. He is currently the Robert A. and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Congratulations, Chris!
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Yoon named Humboldt Fellow!
Suwon Yoon (Ph.D. 2011) has been named a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. She will be based at the Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany.
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Corcoran defended dissertation proposal!
Chris Corcoran successfully defended her dissertation proposal, titled “A study of linguistic categoriality with reference to Sherbro (Bullom) noun classes”. Congratulations, Chris!
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Arregi and Riggle Promoted!
Congratulations to Karlos Arregi and Jason Riggle on their promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! Way to go!