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Chicago linguists heading to PLC
Julia Thomas and Jackson Lee will be presenting at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 23-25. Julia Thomas, Holly Craig and S. Hensel: “A look at copula usage in school-age AAE speakers” Jackson Lee: “The representation of contour tones in Cantonese”
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Baglini at GLOW
Rebekah Baglini and Michael Erlewine (BA, MA, 2007) will present at the 35th GLOW Colloquium to be held on March 28-30, 2012, at the University of Potsdam. Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: Evidence from Wolof Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: Association with traces and thecopy theory of movement
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Chicago Linguists at BLS 38
On Feb 11-12, several U of C linguists will be presenting at BLS 38: Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: evidence from Wolof Andrew Dombrowski: Multiple relative marking in 19th century West Rumelian Turkish Matthew Faytak (BA, 2011): Logical sonority scales and turbulence in fricative-vowel languages Jackson Lee: The representation of contour tones in…
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Ball heading to MacEwan
Chris Ball (Ph.D. 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science at MacEwan University, in Edmonton. He starts in August 2012. He is currently the Robert A. and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Congratulations, Chris!
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Yoon named Humboldt Fellow!
Suwon Yoon (Ph.D. 2011) has been named a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. She will be based at the Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany.
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