Category: conferences
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Super conference acceptances
Fourth-year Nassira Nicola recently learned some exciting news: the acceptance of her submission to the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 10) in October at Purdue University. She’ll be presenting her paper, “Re-Analyzing Plural Classifier Predicates in American Sign Language.” Congrats, Nassira! Third-year grad Ryan Bochnak also has a poster acceptance to a big conference, this…
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Some recent Canada conferences
Alan Yu gave two invited lectures in Canada this past couple weeks. The first lecture, “Washo Word Prosody”, was presented at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 15) at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. He then presented “When does perceptual compensation fail? The implications of analyzing channel bias rationally” at…
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More for Max and Morgan
In addition to each presenting at BLS36, Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger have a couple more talks lined up in the near future. First, Max will be presenting a longer version of his work on the English dative alternation at the Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop on February 8, as well as a related paper,…
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Chicagoans heading for Berkeley this month
A number of U.Chicagoans will be giving papers at BLS36 this month (program with abstracts here), on a variety of topics including prosody, syntax, historical phonology and discourse. Max Bane will be talking on “A Combinatoric Model of Variation in the English Dative Alternation”. Andrew Dombrowski (Slavic/Ling.) will present his paper, “When is orthography not just orthography? The…
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Bochnak heading for D.C. and beyond
Ryan Bochnak will be presenting a paper called “Interpreting a category of adjectives in Luganda” at the Georgetown Linguistics Society‘s annual meeting, February 12-14 in Washington, D.C. His work is based in part on data collected from our Field Methods course last year. In addition, his paper “Two sources of gradability within the verb phrase” was accepted for presentation…