This year, graduate alum Dr. Daniel Altshuler (PhD awarded in 2010) received the Mentoring Award from the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). The Mentoring Award recognizes the work of individuals … Read More
At the end of November, Professor Dorothy Ahn was an invited speaker at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS21). Her talk was titled “Fake nouns: Reconsidering the role … Read More
November 7th-8th, graduate alum Meg Gotowski (PhD 2022, now at William & Mary) gave two presentations at The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD50) The first presentation … Read More
On November 7, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at the University of British Columbia’s Linguistics Department. The talk was titled “Growth & Improvement: a quality semantics for … Read More
Professor Adam Jardine led another successful workshop on mathematical and computational approaches to phonology (and syntax!), held from November 14th to 16th and supported by NSF Grant #2416184. The event … Read More
In early November, Professor Kristen Syrett presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in two sessions. In the first session, she was a co-author (with Dr. Misha … Read More
Professor Kristen Syrett shared her insights on the rise of “6-7” in a recent interview exploring how a phrase with no clear definition became Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The … Read More
Current graduate student Beryl Bui presented her QP1 at the Yale Syntax Reading Group. Her talk, titled “Born to be bound: A unified account for the logophoric, reflexive, and first-person … Read More
At the 11th Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 11), hosted by Johns Hopkins University on October 11, 2025, Rutgers was well represented. Graduate student Quartz … Read More
This year, Rutgers students and faculty had three presentations at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 56). Graduate students Ariela Ye and Jiayuan Chen gave … Read More