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David Michaels speaking at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
GALA 16, 2024
2023 Tokyo Workshop on Computational and Theoretical Semantics
American Sign Language involved faculty and alumni at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn.
Arthur S. Abramson, 1925-2017, Founding Department Head
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.