Category: alumni
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Chicago semanticists in Europe
Chicago semanticists were busy making a name for themselves this summer! Many were in Utrecht for Sinn und Bedeutung: Rebekah Baglini: The scalar source of stative passives Tim Grinsell: The imperfective imperative Peter Klecha: Positive and conditional semantics for gradable modals Yusuke Kubota (Post-doc 2010-11, now at University of Tokyo): Scale compatibility and scale composition:…
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Chicagoans to Barcelona
First year, Andrea Beltrama, will be presenting “Can a decent student get into Harvard? A study on scalar implicature and gradable adjectives” at the upcoming XPRAG, an experimental pragmatics conference, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on June 2-4, 2011. Chris Kennedy and our alumna, Asli Ozyurek (joint PhD in Psych and Ling, 2000), are among…
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Martinovic to WCCFL
Martina Martinovic will be presenting “The Interaction of Animacy with Phonetic and Phonological Factors in Neostokavian” at WCCFL 29 at the University of Arizona on April 22-24, 2011. Our alum, Michael (Mitcho) Erlewine (BA/MA, 2007) will also be presenting “Share to Compare: the Mandarin bĭ Comparative” there as well. Yay to Chicagoans!
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Alumni news: Ilya Yakubovich
In Spring 2010, Ilya Yakubovich moved from Chicago to Moscow, where he accepted the position of a Privatdozent (Assistant Professor) at his alma mater, Russian State University for the Humanities, and research appointments at the Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In January 2011 Ilya relocated to Oxford, where he was offered…
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Eric Morley’s grammar of Ajagbe
Congratulations to our BA alumnus Eric Morley, for the recent publication by LINCOM Europa of his Grammar of Ajagbe, which he wrote on the basis of fieldwork that he conducted from 2007-2009 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Klouekanme, Benin. More details about the book are available on LinguistList, and you can find out more…