At the end of May this year, Dr. Dorothy Ahn and graduate student Quartz Colvin both gave talks at Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED2026), held at the Transilvania University of … Read More
From August 7-9, the 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference was held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Dorothy Ahn gave an invited plenary talk at the conference, titled “Fake nouns: … Read More
This past June, Rutgers Linguistics was well-represented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 4) at UPenn. The large group of Rutgers-affiliated presenters (both past and present!) and attendees included Dr. … Read More
In June, Dr. Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at the Construction of Meaning speaker series at Stanford University, titled “Memory and Motion: a path-based semantics for predicates of remembering … Read More
On May 20-23 this year, Rutgers linguists gave three presentations at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Ryan Walter Smith and Dr. Maria … Read More
This May, at the first joint SULA and TripleA conference, held at the University of British Columbia, several Rutgers linguists gave presentations. The full group of presenters from our department … Read More
Back in April of this year, Dr. Maria Kouneli and graduate student Aidan Sharma presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW48) at the University of Siena. Aidan presented … Read More
The Rutgers Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies, led by Dr. Kristen Syrett, engaged in community outreach at Rutgers Day as a member of Cognitive Kids. Cognitive Kids is a joint … Read More
Professor Ryan Walter Smith presented a poster at the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 62). His poster was titled “What it means to deserve: a gradable semantics for merit claims.” The full … Read More
Professor Dorothy Ahn’s research proposal, “Identifying pronouns across languages,” has been selected for a Research Council Award for AY 2026–2027. The award will support cross-linguistic research on pronouns and involve … Read More