Indira Das

Prof. Adam Jardine has recently been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Rutgers Linguistics.   Congratulations Prof. Jardine!!

We’re really pleased to announce that Nate Koser successfully defended his dissertation on March 30th, 2022! Title: The Computational Nature of Stress Assignment Committee: Adam Jardine (Chair), Bruce Tesar, Adam McCollum, Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) Abstract: This dissertation articulates a restrictive theory of stress based on formal language theoretic complexity. It demonstrates that stress patterns … Read More

Welcome to our Grad class of 2022!   We are excited to announce our incoming class of PhD students for Fall 2022! We will be joined by:   Aidan Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles) Ariela Ye (University of Southern California) Beryl Bui (University of Rochester) Chenli Wang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Vinny Czarnecki (Stony … Read More

Dorothy Ahn (with Heejong Ko of Seoul National University) recently published an article in Glossa. Please find all the details below. Congratulations to Dr. Ahn and Dr. Ko! On non conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers Abstract: Since the Conservativity Universal (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan & Stavi 1986) has been proposed for natural language determiners, several apparent counterexamples … Read More

We’re delighted to announce that Shiori Ikawa successfully defended her dissertation on February 4th!!! Title: ‘On Agree feeding interpretation: Honorificity, empathy, and switch-reference.’ Co-Chairs: Mark Baker and Troy Messick Committee members: Yimei Xiang and Rafaella Zanutini (External, Yale University)   Abstract: Agree is one of the few core syntactic operations posited in minimalist syntax (Chomsky, 2000, 2001) and … Read More

Rutgers alumna Jess Law (UCSC) recently published an article titled The Mereological Structure of Distributivity: A Case Study of Binominal Each (abstract below) in the Journal of Semantics. Congratulations to Dr. Law! Abstract : Binominal each is known to exhibit selectional requirements on the noun phrase that immediately precedes it. The goal of this paper is … Read More

Hazel Mitchley presented her work ‘Transitivization, causative constructions, and the thematic licensing of external arguments‘ at the 96th Annual Meeting of the LSA that took place from Jan. 6–9, 2022. Here’s the short abstract of the talk: “I argue for the bifurcation of VoiceP into two distinct projections: one which thematically licenses the external argument (EA) variable, … Read More

Megan Gotowski (5th Year) recently published an article titled ‘Quoi sluices in French‘ in Glossa (Vol. 7) (abstract below). This is the fourth journal article that Meg has published while here at Rutgers!   Prof. Viviane Déprez in joint work with  J.D. Yeaton (former Rutgers Linguistics undergrad) also published an article in the same journal and … Read More

Prof. Kristen Syrett (co-authored with Paola Cépeda, Hadas Kotek, Katharina Pabst) published an article titled `Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997?‘ in Language(Volume 97, Number 4). Abstract : Macaulay and Brice (1997:798) surveyed example sentences in eleven syntax textbooks published from 1969–1994 and found that virtually all of the … Read More

Prof. Syrett received the Faculty Mentor Award for her contribution to the FIGS (First-Year Interest Group Seminars). FIGS hosts engaging one-credit courses–taught by a select group of experienced Peer Instructors–that introduce first-year students to dozens of exciting fields and to a wide range of involvement, academic, and professional development opportunities at Rutgers. Many congratulations to … Read More