Rutgers Linguists at NELS 56
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
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Vinny Czarnecki Presents on Korean Verb Compounding at SuB30
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 Linguists at Sinn und Bedeutung 30
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
Viviane Déprez, Meg Gotowski & Troy Messick Present at LSRL 55
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
Prof. McCollum, Aidan, Ariela, Merlin & Colin Carry Out Fieldwork in Kazakhstan
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
Ariela Ye & Professor Ahn Present on Honorification at SALT35
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
Professor Kouneli Publishes Joint Work in NLLT
In May 2025, Professor Maria Kouneli published a joint paper with Paula Fenger (Universität Leipzig) and Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard University) in the journal Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT). The … Read More
Professor Yimei Xiang Joins NLLT Editorial Team
Professor Yimei Xiang has joined the editorial team of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT) as an Associate Editor. NLLT is a leading journal in theoretical linguistics, publishing research that … Read More
Professor Ahn & Ziling Zhu Published in Natural Language Semantics
On September 5, Professor Dorothy Ahn and recent graduate alum Ziling Zhu published an article in Natural Language Semantics titled “A bridge to definiteness: identifying unique and relational definites through … Read More
Professor Adam McCollum Interviewed by Forbes?!
Yes, you read that title correctly! Professor Adam McCollum was recently interviewed by Forbes Kazakhstan about his research on Kazakh and Uyghur languages and his deepening ties to the region. … Read More