Kristen Syrett

Prof. Adam Jardine will be giving a talk at the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF) on March 19, 2021. The theme for this year’s workshop is `Tone and phonological theory’.  To … Read More

Our newest faculty member, Prof. Dorothy Ahn was recently invited as a guest speaker at the University of Toronto Linguistics colloquium. The talk, titled `Marked definite expressions in spoken and … Read More

Yimei Xiang (Faculty) has a new paper out ‘online first’ in Natural Language Semantics. The paper can be freely accessed here: https://rdcu.be/cd6Xg. Details below. Congratulations Yimei! Xiang, Yimei. Higher-order readings … Read More

A new paper by Mariapaola D’Imperio (Faculty) and colleagues at the University of Milan-Biocca is now out ‘online first’ in the journal First Language. They study the impact of early … Read More

Mark Baker (Faculty) debates Case with Julie Legate (Penn) in this week’s “linguistic flash-mob” on Thursday, 21 Jan, 2021 at noon ET. The debate revolves around the following three questions/points: … Read More

Adam McCollum (Faculty) will give a talk titled ‘Tutrugbu and the nature of unbounded feature spreading’ as part of the Keio and International Christian Universities’ Linguistics Colloquium series on the … Read More

Rutgers Linguistics was well-represented at this year’s LSA Annual Meeting. Jiaxing Yu, Akane Ohtaka, Shiori Ikawa and Troy Messick presented posters at various general sessions. Mark Baker (who was also … Read More

Mark Baker, Distinguished Professor, department chair and fellow linguist, has been elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America! Fellows are elected each year for “their distinguished contributions … Read More

We’re proud to announce that grad student Meg Gotowski gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 30th, titled, “Children’s Interpretations of Comparatives“. … Read More

We’re excited to announce that Rutgers Linguistics is very well-represented in the November issue of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, with articles by the following linguists:   Mark Baker & … Read More