Category: faculty
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Beltrama and Xiang at PLC 37
Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang presented “Rescuing exists! An experimental study on island violations and resumptive pronouns in Italian” at the Penn Linguistic Colloquium last weekend. Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011) also presented “Main Clause Phenomena at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” there!
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Arregi named associate editor of Language
Karlos Arregi has been named an associate editor of the flagship journal of the LSA, Language. Congratulations, Karlos!
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Baglini and Francez at WCCFL 31
Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez presented at WCCFL 31 recently: Rebekah Baglini. Deriving target and resultant states Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez. The implications of managing Our alum, Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) was there as well!
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Chicagoans head to BLS
Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Congratulations to all! Dorothea Hoffmann: Mapping words and mapping worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak Martina Martinovic: The topic-comment structure in copular sentences: evidence from Wolof Chieu Nguyen: Quantification in the left periphery: the duality of universal quantification and contrastive…
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NSF grants to three faculty
Diane Brentari has been awarded a five-year grant by the National Science Foundation for her project “The Typology of Handshape: Gesture, Homesign, and Sign Language“. Chris Kennedy and Ming Xiang have been awarded a three-year grant by the NSF for their project “Meaning in Context“. Congratulations!