Category: students

  • Jasmin Urban to Tunisia

    Jasmin Urban has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia this summer. Way to go, Jasmin!

  • Nikki Adams Defended Dissertation Proposal

    Nikki Adams successfully defended her dissertation proposal on “The Internal Arguments of the Zulu Ditransitive” on March 31. Congratulations, Nikki!

  • Erin Debenport at the Semiotics Workshop

    The Semiotics Workshop: Culture in Context & Workshop on US Locations are pleased to announce: “Language Use at Sandia Pueblo: Ideologies, Revitalization and Institutionalization” Erin Debenport Ph.D. Candidate Linguistics Discussants: Elise Kramer & Gabe Tusinski (Anthropology) Tuesday March 11th (Note, this workshop is on a Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Haskell Hall, Room Mezz 102 The paper…

  • Suwon Yoon at WAFL

    Suwon Yoon will present “Mood in Abstract Complementizers: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages” at WAFL 5 (The fifth Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics) at SOAS in London in May.

  • Updates from Tom Wier

    Tom Wier, who’s visiting the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig this year, sent us the following updates: “I have recently given two talks: (1) “The Typology of Tav-constructions and the Person-Role Constraint in Georgian” at the Ditransitives Conference at the MPI-EVA in Leipzig, 23-25 Nov 2007. (2) “Polysynthesis in Caucasian Languages; or,…