Category: faculty
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Victor Friedman: Keynotes, plenaries, and more
Professor Victor A. Friedman recently gave the keynote address for the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages at the annual meeting in January. The title was “Families, Leagues, and Hybridity: The Past and Future of Slavic and East European Languages”. The talk will be published in the Spring 2011 issue of…
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UChicago at the LSA
The Chicago linguistic community made quite a showing at this year’s recent annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, including talks and posters by: Jason Merchant: Agreement into and out of ellipsis sites Jonathan Keane, Erin Dahlgren, Jason Riggle: Variation in segment duration in ASL fingerspelling Max Bane, Peter Graff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),…
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Welcome, Ming Xiang
Meet our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Ming Xiang. Dr. Xiang was born and raised in China, Hubei Province, on the southern bank of Yangtzi River. She is broadly interested in the relationship between language and cognition. Her recent work focuses on syntax and semantics processing at the sentence level. She is currently setting up a…
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Promotion news
Congratulations are due to Jason Merchant, who was promoted to the rank of full Professor on July 1!
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Recent conference appearances
On Saturday, September 4, Chris Kennedy participated in a workshop in Stuttgart on Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic, which was held to honor Professor Hans Kamp on the occasion of his 70th birthday. His presentation was called “Vagueness and Imprecision: Meaning and Use”. On Saturday, September 11, Peter Klecha presented his paper “Optional and…