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Gísli Harðarson | Defended
Published on June 16, 2016
On June 16, 2016, Gísli Harðarson successfully defended has dissertation "Cycling through grammar: On compounds, noun phrases and domains". Congratulations, Gísli! Continued »Johnny Cheng | Emory
Published on June 13, 2016
Congratulations to Johnny Cheng (PhD 2013) who has accepted a full-time position at Emory University. We wish him all the best in his new position! Continued »Bobaljik et al | Kyrgyz
Published on June 13, 2016
Jonathan Bobaljik, Ksenia Bogomolets, Christos Christpoulos, Pavel Koval, and Sabine Laszakovits, have been awarded a grant from UConn's Research Excellence Program to support fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan in summer 2017. Continued »Susi Wurmbrand | Talks at Olinco 2016
Published on June 11, 2016
Susi Wurmbrand is giving two talks at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Jun 8-11, 2016:- Semantic gender features of nouns—Visible and active in syntax
- How to do your best—Feature sharing and Rule H
Aida Talić | Article in Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Published on May 28, 2016
Aida Talić's article Adverb extraction, specificity, and structural parallelism appeared in The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 60.3, 417-454 (2015). Abstract: This paper investigates adverb extraction out of traditional adjective phrases (TAPs) like “extremely expensive”, in a number of Slavic, Romance,... Continued »UConn @ LREC 2016
Published on May 23, 2016
UConn will be represented at the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining, to be held May 23-28, 2016, at Portorož, Slovenia, by the following talk:- Deborah Chen Pichler, Julie Hochgesang, Doreen Simons and... Continued »
Magdalena and Stefan Kaufmann | Talks at ASL 2016
Published on May 23, 2016
The 2016 Annual North American Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic will be held at UConn May 23–26, 2016. Two UConn linguists will deliver talks:- Magdalena Kaufman (plenary talk): Models for natural language meaning
- Stefan Kaufmann: Probabilities, conditionals, and... Continued »
Alex Vaxman | Poster at MfM
Published on May 19, 2016
Alex Vaxman will be presenting a poster titled "The Accent Locality Hypothesis and parameter dependency: toward a perfect fit" at the 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting (24mfm), Manchester (UK), May 26-28, 2016. Continued »Peet Klecha | Swarthmore
Published on May 17, 2016
Congratulations to Peet Klecha, our current Visiting Assistant Professor in semantics, who has accepted a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Swarthmore College. All the best in the new position! Continued »Gísli Harðarson | Talks in Iceland
Published on May 17, 2016
Gísli Harðarson will present two talks at the 22nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC22), Reykjavík, Iceland, May 20-22, 2016:- Heads up! On DP internal movement in Icelandic
- (with Susi Wurmbrand) Forging Agreement—on the relation between fake indexicals and agreement
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