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Three graduate students from Rutgers Linguistics represented the department with poster presentations at the Syntax near NYU (SYNNYU) Workshop, held on Nov. 17. Sixth year Chaoyi Chen presented his work, … Read More

Prof. Kristen Syrett shared her expertise on the linguistics of gendered speech in the workplace in an article on British news website The Independent. The article, “Is it sexist to … Read More

An article by Prof. Troy Messick, “Hybrid agreement with English quantifier partitives”, was published in Glossa on Nov. 1. Abstract: This paper presents a novel case study of a 3/4 … Read More

Alumna Meg Gotowski, now a visiting professor at Pomona College, together with collaborator and co-PI Iara Mantenuto of CSU Dominguez Hills have been awarded a research grant from Jacob Research … Read More

Fourth year graduate student Gérard Avelino gave a talk titled ‘Shifty modal meaning in Tagalog embedded clauses‘ at APLL -15, held in Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Abstract: Tagalog (Philippines), has … Read More

Join us in extending a warm welcome to Maria Kouneli, who joins Rutgers Linguistics as an Assistant Professor! We’ve asked Maria to tell us a bit about herself. Here is … Read More

Welcome to the 2023-2024 Academic Year, and welcome to our new cohort of graduate students! Our five new first-years have prepared some self-introductions for us to get to know them … Read More

Prof. Troy Messick had two papers published over the summer on Linguistic Inquiry. Both papers are currently available on early access. 3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in … Read More

Prof. Troy Messick was invited to give a talk at Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch, a hybrid conference hosted by Tsuda University in Tokyo, Japan. … Read More

Fourth year graduate student, Jiaxing Yu, recently presented her work on Mandarin demonstratives at ESSLLI 2023 held at University of Ljubljana (talk) and at Sinn und Bedeutung 28 held at … Read More