Kristen Syrett presented two poster presentations at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) this November. The first one, co-authored by Misha Becker was titled “Syntactic complementation signals emotion/mental … Read More
On October 25th, Dorothy Ahn gave an invited colloquium talk at the University of Maryland. The title of the talk was “Building Blocks of Reference.” Abstract: Reference in language generally … Read More
Maria Kouneli’s collaboration with Imke Driemel has recently been published in the Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT) journal. Their paper “C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis” was accepted … Read More
On October 25th, Professor Kristen Syrett gave an invited colloquium talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her talk was titled “Categorizing and quantifying parts of objects: … Read More
On October 31, Quartz Colvin, a current graduate student, presented a poster “The Cheyenne Potential, Irrealis and Potential Modes” at Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA 13). SULA … Read More
On October 18th, one of our fellow graduate students, Ariela Ye, presented at The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55), held at Yale University. Her … Read More
On September 27th, Troy Messick gave an invited colloquium talk at the University of Connecticut. The title of the talk was “Reciprocals and Syntactic Theory.”
Prof. Kristen Syrett‘s article “Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives” was accepted by the Language and Linguistics Compass journal on September 9. It will be included in the journal’s upcoming … Read More
Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) is a conference dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning, with a focus on theoretical issues in semantics and pragmatics, their interplay with other … Read More
In September, Yağmur gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 in Noto Sicily. The title of her talk was “Pseudo-incorporation, event kinds, and atelicity.” Sinn und Bedeutung is organized … Read More