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
Graduate student Vincent Czarnecki presented joint work with Professor Dorothy Ahn at Sinn und Bedeutung 30, held at Goethe University in Frankfurt. The talk was titled “Recycling Spatial Representations for … Read More
Rutgers Linguistics was well represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), held in Frankfurt, Germany, this year. Our new semantics faculty member, Professor Ryan Walter Smith, presented a poster on … Read More
Professor Viviane Déprez, graduate alum Meg Gotowski, and Professor Troy Messick presented their joint work at the 55th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 55), held in Santo Domingo, Dominican … Read More
This past May, Professor Adam McCollum traveled with graduate students Aidan Sharma, Ariela Ye, Merlin Balihaxi, and Colin Hirschberg to KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to do fieldwork on Kazakh. … Read More
Current graduate students Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, and Jiayuan Chen represented Rutgers at TripleA 12, held September 10-12 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Rutgers alum Seunghun J. Lee (PhD … Read More
Congratulations to Tatevik Yolyan, who successfully defended their dissertation, “Phonological Expressivity and Learning via Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes,” on September 2. Please see the abstract for the dissertation below. Tatevik’s … Read More