Author: apadilla

  • Congratulations Zach!

    Congratulations to Zach Hebert, who has successfully completed his first QP: “Phonological Complexity in the British Sign Language Lexicon.”

  • Linguistics at UChicago Humanities Day

    The University of Chicago’s Humanities Day is October 17th, and the Department of Linguistics has several faculty members who will be presenting. Due to space limitations, please register at http://humanitiesday.uchicago.edu to reserve your seat now! [SESSION 1 9:30-10:30 A.M.] Jason Merchant  How to write around the world (And which ways are best) From Sumeria, Egypt,…

  • Congratulations to Tamara Vardomskaya

    Congratulations to Tamara Vardomskaya who successfully defended her dissertation proposal “Subjectivity and Shared Evidence” on October 7, 2015, and has now advanced to candidacy.

  • UChicago at SSILA

    There are a number of UChicago connections at the concurrent meeting of SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas): 1. “Information structure conditioned word order in Potawatomi” by Robert Lewis 2. ” On the pragmatic relationship indexed by Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki” by Amy Dahlstrom 3. “A preliminary study…

  • UChicago at LSA 2016

    The program for the 2016 LSA annual meeting is out and it looks like UChicago will have another strong showing at the upcoming annual meeting! The list of presentations is given below (presentation info for the meetings of the sister societies and other symposiums are not  yet available). “Decomposing complex relations between phonological maps” by…