The paper “Argument ellipsis as topic deletion” by our alumnus Teruyuki Mizuno (PhD 2023, now at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) has just been published online in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory ahead of the print version. Congratulations Teru! The paper can be accessed here. Abstract: In recent syntactic literature, argument ellipsis has become a productive perspective […]
The 2025 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place January 9-12 in Philadelphia. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by: Shane Blau (post-doc 2023-24), Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University), Elaine Gale. Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf Children with Hearing, Signing Families: Visual Communication […]
UConn linguistics was well represented at three sign language conferences in December, January, and February. At the 10th edition of the SIGN conference (SIGN10), which was held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago, December 9-10, we were represented with the following talks by: Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler […]
Posted on February 19, 2025
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut is a leading center for linguistics research with data from a large number of spoken and signed languages, focusing on theoretical research in generative grammar, and experimental research on child language acquisition.
