Category: students
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Corcoran defended dissertation proposal!
Chris Corcoran successfully defended her dissertation proposal, titled “A study of linguistic categoriality with reference to Sherbro (Bullom) noun classes”. Congratulations, Chris!
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Chicagoans at NWAV 40
Several Chicagoans presented at NWAV 40 at Georgetown University, Oct 27-31. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98) and Abby Walker: Vocalic accommodation in a cross dialectal shadowing task Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (BA/MA ’98): Measuring implicit dialect awareness using the IAT Salikoko Mufwene: The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective Morgan Sonderegger, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin…
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Straughn defended dissertation!
Chris Straughn successfully defended his dissertation “Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh” on October 25. His committee consists of Victor Friedman (chair), Lenore Grenoble, and Kagan Arik. Way to go, Chris!
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Portland here we come!
An unprecedentedly large contingent of Chicagoans will be heading to the annual meeting of the LSA and SSILA (*) in Portland next January: Peter Alrenga, Chris Kennedy, and Jason Merchant: Standard of Comparison/Scope of Comparison Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang: How beautiful is a pretty girl? Scalar implicatures and context effects with gradable adjectives Ryan…
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Hearty welcome to the incoming first years!
A very warm welcome to this year’s incoming first-year graduate students! Here’s a little bit about each of them: Helena Aparicio Terrasa was born in Mallorca, Spain. She earned a B.A. in Humanities and a one year MA in Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Before joining the linguistics department at the University of…