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Asia Pietraszko | Visiting Assistant Professor
Published on August 30, 2017

We are very pleased to welcome Asia Pietraszko to the department this year: I’m a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at UConn. I received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. I’m interested in syntax and... Continued »
Gísli Rúnar Harðarson | Postdoc at University of Iceland
Published on August 28, 2017

Congratulations to Gísli Rúnar Harðarson who is starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the Humanities Institute at the University of Iceland. All the best for continued success! Continued »
Fall Colloquium Series
Published on August 26, 2017

We are pleased to announce the fall line-up for the UConn Linguistics Colloquium series. Further details will be announced closer to the individual talks. September 29th: Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers
[rescheduled to April 6, 2018]: Heather Newell, UQàM
November 17th:... Continued »
Van der Hulst | Two New Books
Published on August 24, 2017

Volume 15 of Approaches to Hungarian, edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták is now out from John Benjamins. This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). Also... Continued »
Renato Lacerda | invited talk at colloquium
Published on August 23, 2017

Renato Lacerda gave an invited talk titled "A sintaxe do tópico e do (*foco) na periferia de vP no português brasileiro" at the colloquium Tardes de Linguística at the Universidade de São Paulo on August 21, 2017. Continued »
Susi Wurmbrand | invited talk at workshop
Published on August 23, 2017

Susi Wurmbrand will be giving an invited talk titled "Universials and variation in clausal complementation" at the workshop Linguistic Knowledge and Patterns of Variation in Amsterdam, August 24-25. Continued »
Zheng Shen | Defended
Published on August 14, 2017

On August 7, Zheng SHen successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Feature Arithmetic in the Nominal Domain. Congratulations, Zheng! Continued »
Gabriel Martinez Vera | Talk at ALFAL 18
Published on August 14, 2017

Gabriel Martinez Vera gave a talk titled "A semantic account of Spanish a-/en-...-ar parasynthetic verbs" at the XVIII International Congress of ALFAL (Latin American Linguistics and Philology Association), July 24-28, in Bogota, Colombia. Continued »
Diane Lillo-Martin | Teaching and Workshop at the LSA Summer Institute
Published on August 14, 2017

Diane Lillo-Martin taught a course on “Acquisition of Sign Languages” at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky, July 5th-August 1st. She also organized and presented at a workshop on “American Sign Language Research Resources” held in conjunction with... Continued »
Paula Fenger | New article in NLLT
Published on July 5, 2017

Paula Fenger (with Ava Creemers and Jan Don) have a new article titled "Some affixes are roots, others are heads" that was just published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (in the First Online section). Congratulations, Paula! Continued »