Congratulations to Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011), who will join the Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington this coming Fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Suwon!
Category Archives: alumni
Beltrama and Xiang at PLC 37
Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang presented “Rescuing exists! An experimental study on island violations and resumptive pronouns in Italian” at the Penn Linguistic Colloquium last weekend. Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011) also presented “Main Clause Phenomena at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” there!
Bochnak in IJAL
Ryan Bochnak‘s paper, Limited noun incorporation in Washo, co-authored with Alice Rhomieux (née Lemieux, MA 2009), has recently been published in the International Journal of American Linguistics. Congratulations, Ryan and Alice!
Baglini and Francez at WCCFL 31
Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez presented at WCCFL 31 recently:
- Rebekah Baglini. Deriving target and resultant states
- Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez. The implications of managing
Our alum, Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) was there as well!
Chicago Linguists heading to LSA in Boston
The University of Chicago has another great showing at the annual meeting of the LSA (Boston) this year! The following papers were presented:
- Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, and Karlos Arregi: Number marking in Western Armenian: a non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy
- Rebekah Baglini: The lexical semantics of derived states (Poster)
- Rebekah Baglini, Lenore Grenoble, and Martina Martinovic: Wild sounds: extragrammatical communication in Wolof
- Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez: The implications of managing (Poster)
- Andrea Beltrama: From tall-issimo to game-issimo: subjectification and intensification in diachrony
- Iris Berent and Diane Brentari: Amodal aspects of linguistic design
- Sam Bowman (B.A. 2010): Seto vowel harmony and neutral vowels (Poster)
- Shira Calamaro (B.A. 2009): Computing general rules over unnatural classes
- Matthew Carlson and Morgan Sonderegger (Ph.D. 2012): The impact of phonological network structure on children’s word learning: A survival analysis
- Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007): Domain Readings of Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses (Poster)
- Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007): Locality restrictions on syntactic extraction: the case (but not Case) of Kaqchikel Agent Focus
- Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) and Kotek Hadas: Intervention effects and covert pied-piping in English multiple questions (Poster)
- Lelia Glass (B.A. 2011): Deriving Indiretness for Epistemic MUST
- Pete Klecha: Modifiers of Modal Auxiliaries and Scalar Modality (Poster)
- Jackson Lee: NP ellipsis may not be licensed non-locally (Poster)
- Chieu Nguyen: Left dislocation in Vietnamese universal quantification and contrastive focus
- Mike Pham: Class(ifier) mobility: emergence of classifiers from compounds
- John Sylak (B.A. 2008): The Phonetic Properties of Voiced Stops Descended from Nasals in Ditidaht
- Jason Riggle and Eric Hallman: Identifying individual style and style shifting on reality television with maximum entropy models
- Alan Yu and Ian Calloway: Coarticulation is mediated by “autistic traits” in neurotypicals