Ksenia Bogomolets successfully defended her dissertation titled “Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology“ on July 20th.
Congratulations, Ksenia!
Dr. Bogomolets with her committee:

Ksenia Bogomolets successfully defended her dissertation titled “Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology“ on July 20th.
Congratulations, Ksenia!
Dr. Bogomolets with her committee:

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:

Diane Lillo-Martin gave a talk on May 19th in the Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online series hosted by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin). A recording of the talk, titled “Sign Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory”, can be accessed on the Abralin website.
Magda Kaufmann will be giving an online talk in the LinG Colloquium Series at Göttingen University series today on May 20th, titled: “A semantic-pragmatic account of generalized subject obviation”
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:

The 29 Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics is taking place virtually from May 8th-10th, hosted by the University of Washington. A number of UConn linguists are going to be presenting their work at the conference:
Franc Lanko Marušič (University of Nova Gorica) and Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore). Gender agreement with exclusive disjunction in Slovenian
Ivana Jovović. On discourse licensing of co-indexed readings of pronouns: Serbo-Croatian strong pronouns as topic-shift anaphors
Sandra Stjepanović (PhD 1999, now at West Virginia University). Multiple Source Left Branch Extraction in Serbo-Croatian
Pasha Koval. Case transmission as long-distance phi-concord
Jon Sprouse has been promoted to the rank of full Professor. Congratulations, Jon!
The 43rd annual GLOW conference is taking place virtually from April 8th-10th, hosted by the Humboldt University of Berlin. UConn linguists are also going to be presenting their work at the conference:
Gabriel Martínez Vera has received an award from the National Science Foundation Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement program (Ling-DDRI) for his project “On the semantics of evidentials.”
Congratulations, Gabriel!
Find more information here:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941045
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.
