Željko Bošković gave a colloquium talk at the University of Göttingen on June 1st. The talk was titled: “On wh and subject positions, the EPP, and contextuality”.
Other News
Tieu | Glossa editor-in-chief
UConn linguistics alumna Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto) has recently been promoted to co-Editor-in-Chief of GLOSSA alongside Johan Rooryck. Congratulations Lyn!
van der Hulst festschrift & NAPhCxii workshop
Harry van der Hulst was honored with a festschrift and special satellite workshop organized by Nancy Ritter at the Twelfth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii), held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 14, 2023.
Harry also gave an invited presentation at the main conference titled What can stress tell us about the structure of synthetic compounds?
Presentations by current/former UConn affiliates included:
At the satellite workshop:
Aida Talic (PhD 2017, now at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Phases and accent assignment domains
Alexandre Vaxman (PhD 2016, now at University of Tours). Interaction of phonological and diacritic weight in hybrid accent systems
Rachel Channon. A new feature type: Functional features in sign languages
At the main conference:
Shengyun Gu, Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet). Phonological Development in ASL-Signing Children: Pseudosign Repetition
Photo: UConn affiliates at the workshop in person.
Front row: Shengyun Gu, Deborah Chen Pichler
Back row: Aida Talic, Alexandre Vaxman, Nancy Ritter, Harry van der Hulst, Diane Lillo-Martin
Mayfest 2023: Howard’s Beginning
This year’s UMD Linguistics Department’s annual ‘Mayfest’ workshop is dedicated to Howard Lasnik on the occasion of his retirement. The program includes many of his UConn students and colleagues giving presentations honoring Howard’s long and illustrious career:
- Željko Bošković. On subject positions, the EPP, and contextuality of syntax
- Keiko Murasugi. Parameterization in Labeling: Evidence from Language Acquisition
- Adolfo Ausín. The (lack of) structure of Phrasal Compounds
- Mamoru Saito. In defense of covert wh-movement (after 40 years)
Cerrone Defense
Pietro Cerrone successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Italian Clictic Left Dislocation and Ā-movement: an experimental investigation on Friday, April 28th.
Congratulations, Pietro!
Dr. Cerrone with his committee and audience after the successful defense:
Adrian Stegovec | Cornell Linguistics Colloquium
Adrian Stegovec will give talk at Cornell as part of their Linguistics Colloquium series on April 27th, 2023. His talk will be titled “A typological gap in person restrictions and the un-parameterization of Agree”. More information on the talk can be found here.
Dias | Revista Linguíʃtica
The article “Island sensitivity in Brazilian Portuguese quem nunca? Constructions” by Tarcisio Dias was published in volume 18 of Revista Linguíʃtica. Congratulations!
Kaufmanns | Invited Talks METU Workshop
Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann each gave an invited talk at the METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning, March 22-23, in Gökova-Akyaka, Muğla, Turkey.
UConn Linguists at PLC
The 47th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 18-19 and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with presentations by:
- Robin Jenkins. Variable verb-stranding ellipsis in Uyghur
- Beccy Lewis. A deficient indexical in British English: An analysis of singular ‘us’
Fujiwara & Shimada | Language Acquisition
The article “Acquisition of overt and covert and: support for the semantic subset principle” by Yoshiki Fujiwara and Hiroyuki Shimada has just appeared as an online first article ahead of its print publication in Language Acquisition. Congratulations!
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children’s consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives; the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with disjunctive interpretations in these sentences and assign conjunctive interpretations. The results of our experiment however show that Japanese children can access the disjunctive interpretations when conjunctions are elided. This finding supports the idea that children are guided by the Semantic Subset Principle when determining the default value of any parameter associated with a logical connective.