Category: faculty
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Giannakidou and Yoon at Sinn und Bedeutung 13
Anastasia Giannakidou and Suwon Yoon will be presenting “Metalinguistic Functions and the Expressive Dimension: Expressive Comparatives in Greek and Korean” at Sinn und Bedeutung 13 in Stuttgart (Sept 30-Oct 2).
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Breaking news: Giannakidou and Kennedy promoted!
Congratulations to Anastasia Giannakidou and Chris Kennedy on their promotion to Professor. Their promotions are formal recognition of their excellence in scholarship, teaching and service.
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Friedman awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Victor Friedman has received a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship to research a monograph on the similarities of one of the world’s most linguistically diverse and complex areas. For more detail of his project, see the writeup in the latest issue of the Chronicle. Congratulations, Victor!
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Jason Merchant in Maryland
Jason Merchant presented “PF and LF locality: Evidence from Greek comparatives” at the Maryland Linguistics Mayfest (May 10-11). The theme this year was “Island Perspectives“.
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Arregi to join the department!
A warm welcome to Karlos Arregi, who will join the Linguistics Department next year as an Assistant Professor. Karlos, who completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2002, is currently teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include syntax, the syntax-semantics, syntax-phonology interfaces, and morphology. He also specializes in Basque and Romance Linguistics.