Category: alumni

  • Chicagoans at the 2013 LSA Institute

    The 2013 LSA Institute will be held from June 24 to July 19 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Several Chicago faculty and (so-to-be) alumni of the Linguistics department will be teaching courses there: Computational Modeling of Sound Change: James Kirby (PhD 2010, now at University of Edinburgh) and Morgan Sonderegger Individual differences in sound change: Jeff…

  • Alumnus update: Harris joins Pomona College

    Jesse Harris (BA/MA 2002) joins the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College as an assistant professor this year. Congratulations, Jesse!

  • Chicagoans to present at WCCFL 30

    Several Chicago linguists will be presenting at WCCFL 30 at UC Santa Cruz! Peter Alrenga (former post doc, now at Boston University), Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: A New Standard of Comparison Jesse Harris (BA/MA 2003, now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Pomona College)On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English Steve Sanpietro, Ming Xiang,…

  • Cantonese linguists heading to OSU

    Several Chicago linguists will be heading to Ohio State in March to present at the Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics: Jackson Lee: Representation of contour tone in Cantonese Holman Tse (MA, 2007): Lexical tone effects on voice onset time in Cantonese Alan Yu is one of the invited speakers. His talk is titled “Determinants…

  • Baglini at GLOW

    Rebekah Baglini and Michael Erlewine (BA, MA, 2007) will present at the 35th GLOW Colloquium to be held on March 28-30, 2012, at the University of Potsdam. Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: Evidence from Wolof Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: Association with traces and thecopy theory of movement