Category: faculty
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Chicago semanticists in Europe
Chicago semanticists were busy making a name for themselves this summer! Many were in Utrecht for Sinn und Bedeutung: Rebekah Baglini: The scalar source of stative passives Tim Grinsell: The imperfective imperative Peter Klecha: Positive and conditional semantics for gradable modals Yusuke Kubota (Post-doc 2010-11, now at University of Tokyo): Scale compatibility and scale composition:…
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Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory 2nd Edition
The 2nd edition of the Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory, edited by a team of Chicago phonologists (Goldsmith, Riggle, & Yu), is now published! Yay!
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Welcome, Diane Brentari!
We are happy to announce that Professor Diane Brentari, currently at Purdue University, has accepted an offer to become a full professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago starting next fall. Everyone in the department is very excited — adding her to the faculty will not only bolster our already impressive…
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Chicagoans to Barcelona
First year, Andrea Beltrama, will be presenting “Can a decent student get into Harvard? A study on scalar implicature and gradable adjectives” at the upcoming XPRAG, an experimental pragmatics conference, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on June 2-4, 2011. Chris Kennedy and our alumna, Asli Ozyurek (joint PhD in Psych and Ling, 2000), are among…
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Staraki and Giannkidou to Chronos
Eleni Staraki will present “Attitude verbs and embedded tense in Greek” at CHRONOS, the 10th international conference on tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, which is going to be held at Aston University, Birmingham, on April 18 -20. Anastasia Giannakidou will also be presenting “Polarity indefinites in modal contexts” at the same conference.