Category: students
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Chicagoans to NELS 42
Many current and former Chicago linguists will be heading to Toronto in November for NELS 42: Ryan Bochnack: The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo Jon Keane, Diane Brentari, & Jason Riggle: Co-articulation in ASL fingerspelling Martina Martinovic: The subject/non-subject asymmetry in Wolof Yaron McNabb: Hebrew and Arabic definite marking as post-syntactic local dislocation…
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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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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.
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Martinovic to WCCFL
Martina Martinovic will be presenting “The Interaction of Animacy with Phonetic and Phonological Factors in Neostokavian” at WCCFL 29 at the University of Arizona on April 22-24, 2011. Our alum, Michael (Mitcho) Erlewine (BA/MA, 2007) will also be presenting “Share to Compare: the Mandarin bĭ Comparative” there as well. Yay to Chicagoans!