Category: students
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New members of the department
We welcome many new faces in the department this Autumn. Lenore Grenble, Edward Sapir Professor of Linguistics and Slavic languages, has joined us from Dartmouth. She specializes in Slavic, Tungusic and languages of the North, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, contact linguistics and language endangerment and revitalization. She is teaching Introduction to Slavic Linguistics this…
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Grotberg to present at MCWOP at OSU
April Grotberg‘s paper “Stress and tone in Macuiltiangus Zapotec” has been accepted for poster presentation at the 13th annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology at the Ohio State University to be held on October 26-28, 2007. Congratulations!
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Klecha and Sawada to present at the Midwest Workshop on Semantics
Congratulations to Peter Klecha and Osamu Sawada, who will be presenting papers at the Midwest Workshop on Semantics next Saturday, October 6, at Michigan State. This is the second meeting of an annual workshop highlighting grad student work in semantics that Chris Kennedy initiated here at Chicago last fall. Details on the workshop can be…
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The Class of 2007
We have a record number of linguistics majors graduating this year: Lilibeth Contreras Jessica Eanes Mitcho Erlewine Elliott Goodman Ruth Krevitt Max Masich Eric Morley Justin Murphy Chelsey Norman Dorothy Shope Jessica Turon Eric Morley, Justin Murphy, and Jessica Turon will also be graduating with honors. Mitcho Erlewine will be graduating with a joint BA/MA.…
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Slotta received Fulbright and Wenner-Gren
James Slotta received the Fulbright-Hayes DDRA Fellowship and the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for research on language variation in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Way to go, James!