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Rella I. Cohn research awards
The first round of awards have been made from the Chicago Linguistics Graduate Student Research Fund in Honor of Rella I. Cohn. The following projects received individual awards in amounts up to $450: Ryan Bochnak, ‘Syntax and semantics of Luganda “exceed” comparatives’ Jon Keane, (ASL fingerspelling database for automatic recognition) Susan Rizzo, ‘Performance errors in…
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Alumni news: Ilya Yakubovich
In Spring 2010, Ilya Yakubovich moved from Chicago to Moscow, where he accepted the position of a Privatdozent (Assistant Professor) at his alma mater, Russian State University for the Humanities, and research appointments at the Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In January 2011 Ilya relocated to Oxford, where he was offered…
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Eric Morley’s grammar of Ajagbe
Congratulations to our BA alumnus Eric Morley, for the recent publication by LINCOM Europa of his Grammar of Ajagbe, which he wrote on the basis of fieldwork that he conducted from 2007-2009 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Klouekanme, Benin. More details about the book are available on LinguistList, and you can find out more…
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Congratulations to Juan Bueno Holle!
Juan Bueno Holle has just received an NSF DEL grant (from the Documenting Endangered Languages program) for dissertation research for his project “Documenting information structure in Isthmus Zapotec.” Great work, Juan!
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UChicago at the LSA
The Chicago linguistic community made quite a showing at this year’s recent annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, including talks and posters by: Jason Merchant: Agreement into and out of ellipsis sites Jonathan Keane, Erin Dahlgren, Jason Riggle: Variation in segment duration in ASL fingerspelling Max Bane, Peter Graff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),…
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