Željko Bošković gave a plenary talk, titled Formalism and Functionalism, at the Belgrade Linguistic Days (BeLiDa), which took place December 3-4 and celebrated 30 years of the Department of General Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
Author: Adrian Stegovec
Hiromune Oda | Article in TLR
Hiromune Oda‘s paper Decomposing and deducing the Coordinate Structure Constraint has been published online in The Linguistic Review ahead of the print version (see short abstract below). Congratulations Hiro!
The article shows that the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) can be violated in a number of languages and establishes a novel cross-linguistic generalization regarding languages that allow violations of the CSC. A phase-based deduction of this generalization is then provided under a particular contextual approach to phases. In addition, based on the cross-linguistic data regarding violations of the CSC, it is argued that the CSC should be separated into two conditions: (i) the ban on extraction of a conjunct, and (ii) the ban on extraction out of a conjunct. This means that the whole coordinate structure (ConjP) as well as individual conjuncts are islands independently of each other. The article also addresses the long-standing debate regarding where in the grammar the CSC applies, arguing that the two different conditions that result from the separation of the traditional CSC ((i) and (ii) above) are deduced from different mechanisms in the architecture of the grammar: one is a purely syntactic condition, and the other is an interface condition.
M. Kaufmann & Krishnan receive SHARE grant
Magdalena Kaufmann and Kavya Krishnan (cognitive science major) have obtained a Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) grant for their project “How to reason in Nepali” to investigate Nepali conditionals in Spring 2022.
Interview with Linguistics and Philosophy major in UConn Magazine
An interview with Adrienne Bruce, a Linguistics and Philosophy major, has appeared in UConn Magazine. Adrienne is spending this semester at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, on a Gilman Scholarship for undergraduate studies abroad from the U.S. State Department. The full interview can be read here: “Speaking the Language”.
UConn Linguistics at LENLS
The Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18) annual workshop took place online on November 13-15, 2021 as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Muyi Yang. Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals
- Shun Ihara and Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). The Duality of Negative Attitudes in Japanese Conditionals
UConn Linguistics at ICFL
The 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-9) was held in Shanghai (in hybrid mode) on November 5-7, 2021. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Shengyun Gu. A typology of person agreement in Shanghai Sign Language: morphophonological accounts
- Zheng Shen. (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore). Coordinate Structure Constraint Violating Movement and Closest Conjunct Agreement
- Zheng Shen and Meghan Lim. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach
UConn Linguistics at BUCLD
The 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD46) was held virtually from 4th-7th November 2021. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Corina Goodwin, Janina Piotroski, Diane Lillo-Martin. Hearing and deaf ASL-English bilinguals show typical early bilingual development.
- Elaine Grolla (PhD 2005, now at Universidade de São Paulo). Syntactic constraints and medial wh-questions in child Brazilian Portuguese.
- Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999, now at ZAS Berlin), Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Alicia Avellana, Aijun Huang, Johnson Ilori, G. Gayathri, Maria Guasti, Uli Sauerland and Lilla Pintér. The Comparative-Superlative Generalization in child language.
Goodwin & Coppola in UConn Today
A recent publication by Corina Goodwin and Marie Coppola in the journal Child Development (“Language not auditory experience is related to parent-reported executive functioning in preschool-aged deaf and hard-of-hearing children”) was featured in UConn Today.
The article, titled “To Young Brains, Language Is Language, Whether Signed or Spoken” can be read here.
Magda Kaufmann at TerraLing Workshop
On October 23rd, Magda Kaufmann was one of the invited speakers at the TerraLing Workshop 2021. Her talk was entitled “Obviating Differences”.
UConn Linguists at NELS
A number of UConn linguists will be presenting at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 52), which will be held online from October 29 to 31, 2021, hosted by the Rutgers University Department of Linguistics.
Diane Lillo-Martin will be one of the invited speakers and talks will be given by:
- Yuya Noguchi. On a correlation between focus and island sensitivity in Japanese elliptical constructions
- Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (PhD 2017, now at University of Iceland). Converging syntactic and phonological domains
- Pasha Koval and Jon Sprouse. Relative Clause Extraposition in Russian is created by syntactic movement
With poster presentations by:
- Ivana Jovović. Competing pronouns in Serbo-Croatian
- Pasha Koval. On Multiple Sluicing and Coordination of Unlikes in Russian
- Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Meghan Lim. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach