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Nguyen and Snyder | Talk at MIT
Published on October 4, 2017

Emma Nguyen and William Snyder will be presenting tomorrow in the MIT ESSL/LAcqLab. It’s hard to coerce: a unified account of Raising-Past-Experiencers and Passives in Child English Continued »
Zheng Shen | Frankfurt
Published on October 2, 2017

Congratulations to Zheng Shen, who has just started a postdoctoral position in the Graduate School on Nominal Modification at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. Glückwunsch, Zheng! Continued »
Vanessa Petroj | Iowa and Nebraska
Published on September 21, 2017

Congratulations to Vanessa Petroj, who has taken up positions teaching ESL and Writing at Iowa Western Community College, Bellevue University, and at Nebraska Methodist College. All the best in your new positions, Vanessa! Continued »
David Michaels Teaching Award 2017
Published on September 13, 2017

We are very pleased to announce the recipients of this year's David Michaels Teaching Award. Well deserved congratuations to Jayeon Park and Hiroaki Saito! Continued »
M Kaufmann | Questioning Speech Acts
Published on September 13, 2017

Magdalena Kaufmann will be giving an invited talk “Iffy Endorsements”, including joint work with Stefan Kaufmann, at the workshop Questioning Speech Acts, Sep 14-17, Konstanz, Germany. Peter Klecha (reecent Visiting Faculty here at UConn) will also be presenting at the workshop.... Continued »
Huskies in Korea | SICOGG
Published on September 11, 2017

UConn Linguistics was well represented at SICOGG (The 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar) in Korea: Jayeon Park & Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut) ERP correlates of subject island effects YongSuk Yoo (University of Connecticut) Labeling of adjunction Zheng Shen (University of... Continued »
Harry van der Hulst | Three recent papers
Published on September 11, 2017

UConn phonology remains well represented in publications - three new papers by Harry van der Hulst (and co-authors) have recently appeared. van der Hulst, Harry, Rob Goedemans and Keren Rice (2017). Areal aspect of word stress. In: Raymond Hickey (ed.). Handbook... Continued »
UConn at Sinn und Bedeutung and GALA
Published on September 5, 2017

UConn will be well represented at two confrences in Europe this week: Sinn und Bedeutung 22 in Berlin/Potsdam, Germany, Sep 7-10 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 13, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Sep 7-9 At SuB, we're... Continued »
2017 First Year Cohort
Published on September 1, 2017

A very warm welcome to our newest entering PhD cohort: Teruyuki Mizuno, Muyi Yang, Ivana Jovović, Shengyun Gu, and Nicolaus Schrum. Go Huskies ! Continued »
Jos Tellings | Post Doc
Published on September 1, 2017

Welkom in Storrs to Jos Tellings: Hi! I just started as a postdoc at the Department of Linguistics at UConn. In Fall, I am co-teaching a graduate seminar on semantics with Magda Kaufmann, and in Spring I will teach an... Continued »