Koval Defense

Pasha Koval successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled The syntax of relative clause extraposition: An experimental investigation of island and c-command effects on Thursday, June 15th.

Congratulations, Pasha!

Dr. Koval with the audience after his successful defense:

Dr. Koval with his committee:

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

UConn Linguistics at SALT

The 33nd conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) will take place on May 12-14th at Yale University. UConn will be represented at the conference with presentations by:

  • Ka-Fai Yip, Ushasi Banerjee and Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Are there “weak definites” in bare classifier languages?
  • Yusuke Yagi. Telescope of Incremental Quantification (poster)
  • Vicki Carstens. Extraction evidence on the syntax of Xhosa nominal expressions (workshop on (In)definiteness & Genericity across Languages)

    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)
    Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
    Photo from Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn

     

    UConn Linguists at WCCFL

    The 41th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), hosted by UC Santa Cruz, is taking place on May 5-7, 2023. UConn will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

    • Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at University of Toronto). Gitksan complements are of variable sizes
    • Robin Jenkins. Timing the escape: Verbal identity in Uyghur verb-stranding ellipsis
    • Shengyun Gu. Weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language: Comparing signers and non-signers
    • Irene Amato and Adrian Stegovec. Disjunction under single referent: Voiding the ban on clitic coordination
    • Beccy Lewis. “Tell us about it!”: A deficient indexical in British English

    … and posters by:

    • Zixi Liu. Locality of locative inversion
    • Penelope Daniel. Unifying differential argument marking through interpretable features