Month: May 2013

  • Rajesh Bhatt Installed as First Linguistics Guru

    Rajesh Bhatt from UMass will be visiting the department from May 12 to May 21 as our first linguistics guru. He will be hanging out in Anastasia’s office (Classics 314E). Please stop by to say hi! If you want to meet with him to discuss your research, please e-mail him <bhatt<AT>linguist.umass.edu> directly to schedule an…

  • Cisneros and Singerman awarded the Tinker Field Research Grant

    Carlos Cisneros and Adam Singerman have both been awarded the Center for Latin American Studies 2013 Tinker Field Research Grant. Carlos will be heading to Panama to conduct fieldwork on the Bocotá (Chibchan) language, while Adam will be going to the Brazilian Amazon to conduct fieldwork there! Congratulations!

  • Bochnak received Mellon Postdoc at Berkeley

    Ryan Bochnak has been offered a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley!  Congratulations, Ryan!

  • Photos from the Workshop on Sound Change Actuation

    The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation was a great success. In case you miss the action, here are some photos from the workshop: Album 1 and Album 2.

  • Francez and Bochnak at SALT 23

    Both Itamar Francez and Ryan Bochnak will be presenting at SALT 23 on May 3-5. The titles of their presentations are Ashwini Deo, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: From change to value difference in degree achievements Ryan Bochnak: Scale exhaustivity and the modification condition (talk alternate)