On November 7, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at the University of British Columbia’s Linguistics Department. The talk was titled “Growth & Improvement: a quality semantics for … Read More
Professor Adam Jardine led another successful workshop on mathematical and computational approaches to phonology (and syntax!), held from November 14th to 16th and supported by NSF Grant #2416184. The event … Read More
In early November, Professor Kristen Syrett presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in two sessions. In the first session, she was a co-author (with Dr. Misha … Read More
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
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
This year, at the 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT35), current graduate student Ariela Ye and Professor Dorothy Ahn presented their joint work, “Rethinking Embeddability and Context Sensitivity … Read More