The 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium will take place in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen on March 25-28th, 2025. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with a “long talk” (one of only six 45 minute talks) by: Qiushi Chen. A tale of two zeros: Lessons from person indexation in Japhug […]
Yusuke Yagi successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Dynamics, Assertability, and Presuppositions in Japanese and English disjunctions on February 28th. Congratulations, Yusuke! Yusuke during the defense: Dr. Yagi cutting his well earned cake: Dr. Yagi with his committee:
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 […]
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.
