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Hearty welcome to the incoming first years!
A very warm welcome to this year’s incoming first-year graduate students! Here’s a little bit about each of them: Helena Aparicio Terrasa was born in Mallorca, Spain. She earned a B.A. in Humanities and a one year MA in Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Before joining the linguistics department at the University of…
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Chicagoans to NELS 42
Many current and former Chicago linguists will be heading to Toronto in November for NELS 42: Ryan Bochnack: The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo Jon Keane, Diane Brentari, & Jason Riggle: Co-articulation in ASL fingerspelling Martina Martinovic: The subject/non-subject asymmetry in Wolof Yaron McNabb: Hebrew and Arabic definite marking as post-syntactic local dislocation…
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NSF grant awarded to Grenoble and Sadock for work on West Greenlandic
Lenore Grenoble and Jerry Sadock received an NSF grant this summer to continue their work on West Greenlandic. The title and abstract of the project is given below. Congratulations! The lexicon of a polysynthetic language (#1056497) West Greenlandic, the national language of Greenland, is an Inuit language closely related to other Inuit languages spoken in…
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Chicago semanticists in Europe
Chicago semanticists were busy making a name for themselves this summer! Many were in Utrecht for Sinn und Bedeutung: Rebekah Baglini: The scalar source of stative passives Tim Grinsell: The imperfective imperative Peter Klecha: Positive and conditional semantics for gradable modals Yusuke Kubota (Post-doc 2010-11, now at University of Tokyo): Scale compatibility and scale composition:…
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Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory 2nd Edition
The 2nd edition of the Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory, edited by a team of Chicago phonologists (Goldsmith, Riggle, & Yu), is now published! Yay!
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