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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 »
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 »