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
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.
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!
Congratulations to Brandon Waldon (BA ’15), who has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to work with Dr. Stephanie Solt at the ZAS on formal semantic models of scale-dependent expressions.
Chicago linguistitcs will enjoy a strong showing at the upcoming Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26 this weekend at the University of Texas, Austin: