Congratulations to Rutgers alumna Diti Bhadra, who has recently published an article in the Journal of Semantics. Bhadra, Diti. 2020. The Semantics of Evidentials in Questions. Journal of Semantics. Volume 37, … Read More
We are so excited to be able to welcome four new graduate students to RU Linguistics this fall!! We collected some information about each of them to help the department … Read More
We’re so excited to be able to officially welcome Dorothy Ahn to our department! To get to know her a bit more, we asked her to write a few paragraphs … Read More
On July 8th, Prof. Kristen Syrett was interviewed for a Yahoo! Life article, titled: “From ‘master bedroom’ to ‘blacklist’: What will it take to change racist terms in our everyday … Read More
We’re incredibly excited to announce that Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation on July 20th! Title: The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions Chair: Kristen Syrett Committee Members: Yimei Xiang, … Read More
We’re thrilled to announce that Deepak Alok successfully defended his dissertation on July 15th!! Title: “Speaker and Addressee in Natural Language: Honorificity, Indexicality and their Interaction in Magahi” Co-Chairs: … Read More
Prof. Mariapaola D’Imperio has obtained a position as the International Chair for The Laboratoire d’excellence “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics: data, methods, models” [LabEx EFL] program, and will be giving a … Read More
Graduate student Morgan Moyer and Prof. Kristen Syrett have published a paper, titled, “The Study of Questions”, in WIREs Cognitive Science! The abstract is below: “Asking questions is a fundamental … Read More
A paper by graduate student Deepak Alok has been accepted for publication in “Syntax“! The paper, titled The Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement, looks at allocutive agreement in Magahi (Eastern … Read More
We’re thrilled to announce that our alumnus Daniel Altshuler will be starting a new position as an Associate Professor in Semantics at the University of Oxford, in the Faculty of … Read More