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James Canne | New Student

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My name is James Canne and I’m from a small town in the American Midwest. I did a Licence in English literature with a linguistics minor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and an MA in linguistics at University College London. As far back as I can remember I’ve had an interest in how language works. It wasn’t until I was studying in France that I realized how intricate the puzzles could be. I switched to linguistics for my MA and haven’t looked back since.

My primary focus is the internal structure of the verb phrase. This includes research into particle verbs, transitivity, and resultative constructions.

Marley Beaver | New Student

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My name is Marley Beaver. I come from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and I received my B.S. in Linguistics with a minor in Psychology from Eastern Michigan University. After graduation I spent a year working in early childhood education. My previous research has focused on the acquisition, syntax, and semantics of resultatives. My continuing research interests include semantics, language acquisition, and the syntax-semantics interface. I enjoy working on creative projects (usually knitting or printmaking) and spending time outdoors.

NACCL-32 at UConn

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The 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), organized by the UConn Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, is going to be held online on September 18-20. Several UConn linguists are going to be presenting at the conference:

  • Shuyan Wang. A Prosodic Analysis of Mandarin Classifiers
  • Shengyun Gu. Agreement verbs with weak hand classifier in Shanghai Sign Language
  • Xuetong Yuan & Hiroaki Saito. Matrix shuo in Mandarin
  • Yuanyuan Zhang & Chui Yi Margaret Lee. NPIs and their attenuation effects: Zenme ‘how’ as a case in Mandarin Chinese
  • Nick Huang (National University of Singapore/UConn), Annemarie van Dooren & Gesoel Mendes. Wanting the future: the case of desire and future ​yao
  • Nick Huang (National University of Singapore/UConn). Nominal expressions without nouns in Mandarin

Bertolino, Nguyen, Petrosino | Isabelle Y. Liberman Award

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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!

Thornton Defense

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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: