Penelope Daniel successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Building a DAM: Parameters of differential argument marking on July 7th.
Penelope will be starting her job as a postdoctoral associate in syntax at the University of Maryland in the fall.
Congratulations, Penelope!
Penelope defending:
Dr. Daniel preparing for the toast after the successful defense:
Dr. Daniel celebrating with her committee:
The online audience at the defense:
Adrian Stegovec taught a mini-course at the University of Nova Gorica – Center for Cognitive Science of Language, between 17th June and 1st July, titled “Restrictions on the order and (co-)occurrence of clitic pronouns: From Slovenian to the world and back again”. The course consisted of five lectures:
The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, organized by Cornell University, took place on June 13-15, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with talks by:
Sabine Laszakovits successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled On the fundamental difference between dependent-up and dependent-down cases, and on their manifestation in Turkic on June 17th.
Congratulations, Sabine!
Sabine defending “in front of” most of her committee:
Dr. Laszakovits with the committee and audience after the successful defense:
Linghui ‘Eva’ Gan successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Information Structure of the Clause-Final Position in Hong Kong Sign Language on May 14th.
Congratulations, Eva!
Eva defending:
Dr. Gan with her well-earned cake:
Dr. Gan with her committee:
Akihiko Arano successfully defended his doctoral dissertation a while ago on April 30th. The dissertation was titled Expanding the scope of scrambling.
Congratulations, Aki!
While the traditional cutting of the defense cake was not possible due to the event being fully online, we hope Dr. Arano instead enjoyed a well-earned Japanese treat of his liking.
Adrian Stegovec gave an invited talk, titled On the correlation between pronoun type and person restrictions at the Bielefeld-Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025 (BieLeiCos) which took place on May 22nd-23rd at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Željko Bošković is this year’s Edward C. Marth Mentorship Award Recipient! This award is given to recognize extraordinary mentoring of graduate students. The selection committee noted that Željko’s “dedication to graduate students is legendary.”
As part of receiving this award, Željko was invited to give a presentation at the Ph.D. Commencement exercises held on May 12. He urged the graduates to use their intellectual responsibilities to “be bold” and speak up for justice.
More about Željko’s award can be found on p. 38 of the Commencement Program which can be found here.
The 61st annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) took place at the University of Chicago on May 9-11, and UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
… and poster presentations by:
Photo: Most of the UConn Linguistics contingent at CLS 61 (Heesun, Lydia, Adrian, and Qiushi).
The 42nd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), hosted by the University of Washington, Seattle, took place on April 25-27, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with a talk by:
… and posters by:
Pictured: The UConn linguistics contingent at WCCFL (Yoshiki, Si Kai, and Eva).
