Hearty congratulations to Ming Xiang, who has received the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professorship, in recognition of her stellar achievements as a superb scholar and citizen, and her contribution to the success and excellence of the Department of Linguistics.
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UChicagons @ NELS 55@Yale
UChicago is well-represented at NELS 55 this year!
Karlos Arregi and Matthew Hewett (PhD 2023): Singular they and the syntax of pronominal imposters.
Ksenia Ershova (PhD 2019): Syntactic ergativity without ‘syntactic ergativity’
Xiaobei Chen: N-to-VP Copying in Hani: A remnant movement approach
Christine Gu (BA 2021): “Optional” ergativity in Tibetan as AGREE-based dependent case
Squid Tamar-Mattis (BA 2019): Let’s try and figure out why we can’t inflect these verbs
Chicago linguists @ WCCFL 34
Several current (and former) Chicagoans are in Salt Lake City this weekend to present their work at WCCFL 34:
- Emily Hanink and Julian Grove: German relative clauses and the severed index hypothesis
- Martina Martinovic (PhD 2015): Head-splitting in the Wolof clausal periphery
- Joanna Pietraszko: Local interactions in the prosodic structure of Ndebele verbs
Chicago linguists at TAL 5
Katie Franich will be presenting “Perception of Tonal Contours in Medumba” at the Tonal Aspects of Language to be held at the University of Buffalo on May 24-27. Also presenting there is James Kirby (PhD 2013), who is talking about “Tone- melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song” with his co-author, Bob Ladd.
Bowman to NYU
Congratulations to Sam Bowman (BA/MA ’11), who shares with us the wonderful news that he’ll be starting as an assistant professor this fall at NYU in the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Data Science. Way to go, Sam!