Category: faculty
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Hot off the press!
Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization, edited by Anastasia Giannakidou and Monika Rathert, has recently been published by the Oxford University Press. Congratulations, Anastasia!
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What’s Victor Friedman been up to?
Here is a list of recent activity by Victor Friedman, Professor of Balkan and Slavic linguistics, who is in Skopje this year on Guggenheim & Fulbright-Hays grants: Invited talks and conference papers (June-December 2008): Evidentiality in the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa, 16 june 2008. Balkan Slavic Dialectology and Balkan Linguistics: Peripheryas…
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Hot off the presses from Sali
Salikoko Mufwene has begun another calendar year with several new publications, which include (With Cécile B. Vigouroux, eds.) 2008. Globalization and Language Vitality: Perspectives from Africa. London: Continuum Press. 2009. “Some offspring of colonial English are creole.” In Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts, ed. by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Heili Paulasto, 208-303. New York/London: Routledge. Last weekend,…
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Kennedy, McNabb among paper acceptances
“On the Extraction of Attributive Adjectives and Deletion in Palestinian Arabic Comparatives,” a paper by department chair Chris Kennedy and third-year Ph.D. student Yaron McNabb, has been accepted to two upcoming conferences: The 37th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (NACAL) meeting in Albuquerque, NM, to be held March 13-15, 2009 The 23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to…
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Chicagoans travel to Berkeley
The University of Chicago will be well represented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, which will be held February 14-16, with several members of our department featured in the program. Student presenters will include Ryan Bochnak, “Promiscuous modification and cross-categorical part structures”; Jasmin Urban, “A Modal Approach to Open Questions”; and Osamu Sawada and…