Rutgers in “Phonology”
We’re extremely proud to announce that, out of the four articles featured in the latest issue of Phonology, three of them are from Rutgers linguists! The first is “Unbounded circumambient patterns … Read More
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Alumna Diti Bhadra Published in Journal of Semantics
Congratulations to Rutgers alumna Diti Bhadra, who has recently published an article in the Journal of Semantics. Bhadra, Diti. 2020. The Semantics of Evidentials in Questions. Journal of Semantics. Volume 37, … Read More
Meet Our New Grad Students!
We are so excited to be able to welcome four new graduate students to RU Linguistics this fall!! We collected some information about each of them to help the department … Read More
Dorothy Ahn Joins RU Linguistics!
We’re so excited to be able to officially welcome Dorothy Ahn to our department! To get to know her a bit more, we asked her to write a few paragraphs … Read More
Prof. Syrett Interviewed by NPR and Yahoo! Life
On July 8th, Prof. Kristen Syrett was interviewed for a Yahoo! Life article, titled: “From ‘master bedroom’ to ‘blacklist’: What will it take to change racist terms in our everyday … Read More
Morgan Moyer to do Postdocs at Stanford and CNRS Paris
We’re incredibly excited to announce that Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation on July 20th! Title: The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions Chair: Kristen Syrett Committee Members: Yimei Xiang, … Read More
Deepak Alok Successfully Defended His Dissertation
We’re thrilled to announce that Deepak Alok successfully defended his dissertation on July 15th!! Title: “Speaker and Addressee in Natural Language: Honorificity, Indexicality and their Interaction in Magahi” Co-Chairs: … Read More
Prof. D’Imperio Appointed International Chair for LabEx EFL
Prof. Mariapaola D’Imperio has obtained a position as the International Chair for The Laboratoire d’excellence “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics: data, methods, models” [LabEx EFL] program, and will be giving a … Read More
Morgan Moyer and Prof. Kristen Syrett Published in WIREs Cog Sci
Graduate student Morgan Moyer and Prof. Kristen Syrett have published a paper, titled, “The Study of Questions”, in WIREs Cognitive Science! The abstract is below: “Asking questions is a fundamental … Read More
Deepak Alok’s Paper Accepted in “Syntax”!
A paper by graduate student Deepak Alok has been accepted for publication in “Syntax“! The paper, titled The Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement, looks at allocutive agreement in Magahi (Eastern … Read More