Author: Adrian Stegovec

UConn Linguists at PLC

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The 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 18-20, 2022 and UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with presentations by:

  • Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). “Parts” of fractions: A cross-linguistic study (POSTER)
  • Tarcisio Dias. Local wh-subjects under Brazilian Portuguese nunca ellipsis (POSTER)
  • Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Against low negation in Japanese questions
  • Beccy Lewis. There are two derivations for associative plural (APL) constructions
  • Hiroaki Saito (Mie University/UConn). On the apparent complementizer in Japanese
  • Yusuke Yagi & Xuetong Yuan. Stronger Additivity Derives Concessivity
  • Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies). The Syntax and Semantics of SAY in the Quotative Complement in Japanese

      UConn Linguists at DGfS

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      The 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) was held online on February 23rd-25th, hosted by the University of Tübingen. UConn linguists gave talks at two of the DGfS thematic workshops:

      Vicki Carstens gave an invited talk at the workshop on Long Distance Dependencies and the structure of embedded clauses in African Languages, titled: Addressee Agreement in Bantu and Speech Act Projections

      Adrian Stegovec gave a talk at the workshop on Optionality and non-optionality of syntactic movement, titled: The third way: Optional object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution.

       

      UConn Linguists at TaLK

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      The Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference is taking place March 2nd-4th at Keio University and virtually. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with talks by:

      • Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Negative polarity and the silent MUCH in degree constructions (in person+online)
      • Muyi Yang. Referentiality and plurality in conditionals (online)
      • Xuetong Yuan and Yusuke Yagi. Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity (online)

      Coppola et al. | Article in Phonology

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      The article “Community interactions and phonemic inventories in emerging sign languages” by Marie Coppola, Diane Brentari, Rabia Ergin, Ann Senghas, Pyeong Whan Cho, and Eli Owens has been published online as an advance article in Phonology.

      Abstract: In this work, we address structural, iconic and social dimensions of the emergence of phonological systems in two emerging sign languages. A comparative analysis is conducted of data from a village sign language (Central Taurus Sign Language; CTSL) and a community sign language (Nicaraguan Sign Language; NSL). Both languages are approximately 50 years old, but the sizes and social structures of their respective communities are quite different. We find important differences between the two languages’ handshape inventories. CTSL’s handshape inventory has changed more slowly than NSL’s across the same time period. In addition, while the inventories of the two languages are of similar size, handshape complexity is higher in NSL than in CTSL. This work provides an example of the unique and important perspective that emerging sign languages offer regarding longstanding questions about how phonological systems emerge.

      UConn Linguists at Jabberwocky Words In Linguistics

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      The Jabberwocky Words In Linguistics workshop took place online on February 11th-12th hosted by UMass, Amherst. UConn was represented by the following invited talks:

      • Emma Nguyen (PhD 2021, now at University of California, Irvine). Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children
      • Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, Western Sydney University). Using nonce words to investigate the morphology of comparison
      • Letitia Naigles (UConn Department of Psychological Sciences). What Nonsense? Not at all! Nonsense Word Studies Reveal both Strengths and Challenges in the Linguistic Representations of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

        Tu+7 at UConn

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        We are pleased to announce that UConn Linguistics will be hosting the Seventh Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, otherwise known as TU+7, on February 18th-19th!

        The program, abstracts, and information on registration can be found at: https://sites.google.com/uconn.edu/tu7

        Please join us this year by registering by February 16th in order to receive updates and Zoom links for some fantastic talks!

        UConn linguists in Tu+6 proceedings

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        The Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, which contains peer-reviewed papers based on presentations given at the Tu+6 conference, has just been published. The volume contains three papers from current UConn students:

        • Sarah Jane Asinari and Si Kai Lee. Variable Conjunct Agreement in Qaraqalpaq
        • Robin Jenkins. Specificity Effects and Object Movement In Turkish and Uyghur
        • Rebecca Lewis. Associative Plurality and the DP/NP typology