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Tsinghua Workshop on Modality in Logic and Language

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The 5th Tsinghua  Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning on the topic of Modality in Logic and Language will be held on April 3-5. The workshop is co-organized by Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now Tsinghua University). UConn will be represented by:

  • Stefan Kaufmann with a tutorial on Probabilistic semantics for modality (and conditionals), as well as an invited talk titled Directions in Modality
  • Muyi Yang (PhD 2023, now Osaka University) with a talk on Additivity-driven Prioritizing Modality: A J/K Comparison
  • Yusuke Yagi (Phd 2025, now Waseda University) and Jiayi Zhou with a poster on Bridging Similarity and Modality

Welcome to Omar Agha

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We are pleased to announce that Omar Agha will be joining our department for the coming academic year. Omar is finishing up his dissertation in semantics at NYU with Lucas Champollion, having previously received a BA in linguistics and mathematics at the University of Chicago. He will teach courses in semantics/pragmatics and computational linguistics.

You can find more information about his research here.

Welcome Omar!

 

 

Carstens to join UConn Linguistics

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We are thrilled to announce that Vicki Carstens will join the faculty of the Department of Linguistics as Professor of Syntax in Fall 2020! She comes to us from Southern Illinois University where she is Professor & Chair of Linguistics.

Prof. Carstens is a renowned generative syntactician who has worked extensively on word order and agreement cross-linguistically.  She is a skilled, experienced fieldworker and an expert on African languages with a focus on Bantu.

Check out her research here.

And find out more about her from her 2016 Featured Linguist profile on Linguist List.