Category Archives: students

Paz and Debenport moving on up

Alejandro Paz, joint PhD student in Linguistics and Anthropology, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto – Scarborough. The position is half in Linguistics and half in Intersections, Exchanges and Encounters in the Humanities.

Meanwhile, Erin Debenport has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS postdoctoral fellowship for next year. Many congratulations to each of you, Erin and Alejandro!

Upcoming talks for Dahlstrom and Kirby

This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.

James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.

Fun, fun, fun: QP Fest next week

Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:

March 16 (Location: Harper 140)

1-1:30

Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda

1:30-2

Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign

2-2:30

Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean

Break

 

3-3:30

Pat Rich: French expletive negation

3:30-4

Luisandro Mendes De Souza: Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese and the Verbal Domain

4-4:30

Pete Klecha: The Modality of English Futures


March 17 (Location: Harper 130)

9-9:30

Andy Dombrowski: Albanian-Slavic Phonological Contact

9:30-10

Juan Bueno Holle: Reference-tracking in Isthmus Zapotec

10-10:30

Alice Lemieux: Washo Bipartite Stems

Break

 

11-11:30

Max Bane: Grammatical Correlates of Variation in the English Dative Alternation

11:30-12

Yaron McNabb: Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic

12-12:30

Susan Rizzo: Grandfather Effects and Derived Environment Effects in Harmonic Grammar

 

King to TULCon

Ed King, one of our many talented undergraduates, will be presenting “Generation Effects on Vowel Production in Latvian-English Bilinguals in Chicago” at the Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon), March 27-29, 2009.