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Chicago Linguists heading to LSA in Boston
The University of Chicago has another great showing at the annual meeting of the LSA (Boston) this year! The following papers were presented: Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, and Karlos Arregi: Number marking in Western Armenian: a non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy Rebekah Baglini: The lexical semantics of derived states (Poster) Rebekah Baglini, Lenore Grenoble, and…
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Welcome new first year graduate students!
A big Windy City welcome all of our new first-year graduate students this year! With so many of them to get to know, here’s a little cheat sheet for you: Ross Burkholder is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied Linguistics and German. Linguistically, he has many areas of interest,…
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Parrill tenured at Case Western
Fey Parrill (Joint PhD in Psychology and Linguistics, 2006) was promoted to Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. Fey directs the Gesture and Cognition Lab, which studies the relationship between spoken language and gesture. She is also expecting her second child in late August. (Her daughter was born in May, 2011.) A…
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Francez joins department as assistant professor
Itamar Francez, who’s currently a Harper-Schmitt Fellow, will be joining our department in the Fall as a tenure-track assistant professor. Please join me in welcoming him on this new, more durable basis!
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McNabb heading to Konstanz
Yaron McNabb, who recently defended his dissertation , “The Syntax and Semantics of Degree Modification”, has accepted a two-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Konstanz, where he will be part of a project on “Decomposition of comparative and superlative quantificational noun phrases at the syntax/semantics interface”. Congratulations, Yaron!
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