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  • Chen | Glossa
    Mingjiang Chen’s article “A decomposition analysis of Agents” has just appeared in Volume 9 of Glossa. The paper can be accessed online here. Congratulations Mingjiang! Abstract: Agents and Causers are standardly analyzed as external arguments introduced by v or Voice. According to this approach, the two arguments are independent and unrelated. However, evidence from the […]
    Posted on October 22, 2024
  • UConn Linguists at NELS
    The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society took place at Yale University, October 17-18. UConn Linguistics was well represented at the conference with an invited talk by: Vicki Carstens. The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu … talks by: Beccy Lewis (PhD 2024, now at UMass, Amherst). An implicational hierarchy on the […]
    Posted on October 22, 2024
  • Yuan Defense & U of Chicago jobs
    Xuetong Yuan successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Conditions on Conditionals: Evaluativity, Discourse Sensitivity, and Conditionals without if on September 27th. Since then, Xuetong has been busy moving to Chicago, where she will be a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago she is also joining another recent UConn linguistics […]
    Posted on October 22, 2024

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