Renato Lacerda successfully defended his dissertation titled “Middle-field Syntax and Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese“ on August 10th.
Congratulations, Renato!
Dr. Lacerda with his committee:
Other News
Bertolino Defense
Karina Bertolino successfully defended her dissertation titled “An Experimental Study on the Acquisition of Impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese“ on August 5th.
Congratulations, Karina!
Dr. Bertolino with her committee:
Bertolino, Nguyen, Petrosino | Isabelle Y. Liberman Award
We are pleased to announce that three of our graduate students have been recognized and awarded stipends for this year’s Isabelle Y. Liberman Award, which is intended to recognize and encourage young researchers who are investigating topics relating to Isabelle Y. Liberman’s interests.
Emma Nguyen received the award for her work on “The link between lexical semantic features and children’s comprehension of English be-passives”, a paper submitted to Language Acquisition with Lisa Pearl.
Additionally, Karina Gomes Bertolino and Roberto Petrosino have been named finalists for the award.
Congratulations to all three!
Bogomolets Defense
Ksenia Bogomolets successfully defended her dissertation titled “Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology“ on July 20th.
Congratulations, Ksenia!
Dr. Bogomolets with her committee:
Fenger Defense
Paula Fenger successfully defended her dissertation titled “Words within Words: The Internal Syntax of Verbs“ on June 29th.
Congratulations, Paula!
Dr. Fenger with her committee:
Thornton Defense
Abigail Thornton successfully defended her dissertation titled “Morphophonological & Morphosyntactic Domains” on May 14th in our first doctoral defense since moving online.
Congratulations, Abbie!
Dr. Thornton with her committee:
Carstens to join UConn Linguistics
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.
Alumni Research Awards
We are pleased to announce the recipients of our first annual Alumni Research Awards. Through this program the department awards up to $1000 annually to graduate students to support research projects. These awards were made possible through the generous donations of alumni from our Ph.D. program. This year’s awards go to:
Sarah Asinari & Si Kai Lee, “Verbal Agreement Patterns in Qaraqalpaq”
Shengyun Gu, “Weak hand spread in the prosody of Shanghai Sign Language”
Vaxman at BLS workshop
Alexandre Vaxman (PhD 2016) will present a poster titled Addressing exceptionality: Lexical accent systems as scalar weight-sensitive systems at the Berkeley Linguistics Society Workshop on Phonological Representations at UC Berkeley on February 8th, 2020.
Noguchi at ConSOLE 28
Yuya Noguchi presented his poster titled On the embeddability of cleft wh-questions in Japanese at the 28th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe, which took place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on January 29th-31st 2020.