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Kennedy, McNabb among paper acceptances

“On the Extraction of Attributive Adjectives and Deletion in Palestinian Arabic Comparatives,” a paper by department chair Chris Kennedy and third-year Ph.D. student Yaron McNabb, has been accepted to two upcoming conferences:

  • The 37th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (NACAL) meeting in Albuquerque, NM, to be held March 13-15, 2009
  • The 23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to be held April 3-5, 2009

In addition, a paper by April Lynn Grotberg, “Prosodic override of a differential object marking system,” was accepted to NACAL as well. NELC/Linguistics joint-Ph.D. student Charles Otte III will also be presenting at NACAL. Congratulations, all!

Straughn dissertation proposal defense today!

Fourth-year Ph.D. student Chris Straughn will be defending his dissertation proposal, “Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh,” today, January 22. The defense will take place at 11 a.m. in Classics 312 (department lounge); the abstract can be viewed here. We’re wishing Chris the best!

LSA meeting last week

Many Chicago linguists spent several days last week at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (as well as the coinciding SSILA meeting), which took place in beautiful San Francisco, CA. The papers by University of Chicago graduate students and faculty were previously announced on BLING here, and the full LSA meeting program can be found here. Ask a conference attendee near you how it went!

Chicagoans travel to Berkeley

The University of Chicago will be well represented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, which will be held February 14-16, with several members of our department featured in the program.

Student presenters will include Ryan Bochnak, “Promiscuous modification and cross-categorical part structures”; Jasmin Urban, “A Modal Approach to Open Questions”; and Osamu Sawada and Thomas Grano, “Investigating an asymmetry in the semantics of Japanese measure phrases.”

Susan Goldin-Meadow and Amy Franklin (PhD, 2007) will present “Getting Ahead in Development: Multi-Modal Acquisition of Negation” (with Amy Franklin) and Alan Yu will also be presenting his work, “Tonal mapping in Cantonese vocative reduplication.”

See the BLS 35 website for details about the meeting program and abstracts.