RU Linguists at SULA-TripleA 2026
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
Faculty
Aidan Sharma & Dr. Maria Kouneli at GLOW48
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
Lab for Developmental Language Studies’ Outreach at Rutgers Day
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
Ryan Walter Smith Presents at CLS 62
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
Dr. Dorothy Ahn Receives Research Council Award
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
Aidan Sharma & Troy Messick Present at FASAL 16
At Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16), held at the University of Southern California, both Aidan Sharma and Troy Messick presented their work. Troy Messick delivered an … Read More
Utku Zobarlar, Adam McCollum, Aidan & Colin Represent Rutgers at Tu+ 11
At the 11th Annual Tu+ Conference, held April 11–12 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rutgers Linguistics was strongly represented by faculty, students, and collaborators. Utku, Colin, and Adam McCollum … Read More
Prof. Dorothy Ahn Published in Language
Professor Dorothy Ahn, in collaboration with Annemarie Kocab (Johns Hopkins University) and Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University), has published an article in Language. Their paper investigates the role of loci in … Read More
Prof. Troy Messick Gives Invited Talk at FASAL 16
Dr. Troy Messick was invited to give a talk at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16). His talk, titled “The domain and structure of reciprocals: Insights from … Read More
Dr. Ryan Walter Smith Gives Invited Talk on Memory Reports
At the end of March, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at Memory & Language 2: Simulationist and Causalist Approaches to Reference in Remembering, a conference for philosophers … Read More