Category: faculty
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Dahlstrom at Algonquian Conference
Amy Dahlstrom presented a paper last weekend in Minneapolis at the 40th Algonquian Conference, an international meeting for researchers working in Algonquian studies from anthropology to ethnobotany and including, of course, linguistics. Amy’s paper was titled “Pattern and presentation: Highlighting syntactic and rhetorical structures in texts” and delivered in a special session on Problems and Strategies in the…
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Mufwene wraps up a prolific year
Salikoko Mufwene recently returned from a short trip to Paris, where he gave the keynote address at the CNRS-LACITO Workshop on Ecology and Language Evolution. His October 23 talk, “Humans as the ecology of language(s),” is the latest in a series of over a dozen papers presented by Salikoko in 2008. In addition, several of…
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Coming soon: Chicago mini-workshop on Basque linguistics
The department is proud to announce the first Chicago Mini-Workshop on Basque Linguistics will be held on Monday, October 27. The program will include talks by Ricardo Etxepare of the University of the Basque Country on “Ways of building syntactic focus in Spanish and Basque”; U of C’s Anastasia Giannokodou on “Contextual domain restriction across languages”;…
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Department welcomes new faces!
A warm welcome to this year’s cohort of new graduate students as well as Luisandro Mendes de Souza, who is visiting us from Brazil. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: Carissa Abrego: “I come to Chicago after living in sunny Southern California for 21 years. My undergraduate years were spent first at UCLA…
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LSA and SSILA Acceptances
Chicago will be well-represented at the upcoming Jaunary LSA and SSILA in San Francisco! Congratulations to the following students and faculty for their acceptances! LSA Peter Alrenga: Stipulated vs. Asserted Anaphora. Adam Baker: Phonology as Compression: Capturing Vowel Harmony. Tommy Grano: Predicating gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: Should we posit POS? April Grotberg: The prosody…