Department of Linguistics

Robin Jenkins’ article “Scrambling, Specificity Effects, and Phasal Variation in Turkish and Uyghur” has just appeared online ahead of its print publication in Linguistic Inquiry. Congratulations Robin! Abstract: This article develops a new approach to specificity effects based on comparing differential object marking (DOM) in Turkish with a novel DOM paradigm observed in Uyghur. Based […]

Yixuan (Pepper) Yan presented joint work with Yitong Luo at the N∅thing is Logical (∅NihiL) seminar organized by the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. The talk, given on October 1st 2024, was titled“Do children know that PolQs are not AltQs? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese”. 

Hi! My name is Jiayi Zhou (周佳旖). I’m from Shaoxing, China, a place famous for its wine, novelists, activists, rivers, and bridges. I grew up surrounded by stories, spoken aloud, written in books, or just soaked in wine. I’ve especially benefited from linguistic stories in Hangzhou (2017–2021), Osaka (2019), and Utrecht (2022–2024), and I’m eager […]