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
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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
Daniel Altshuler Starts New Position as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at Univ. of Oxford
We’re thrilled to announce that our alumnus Daniel Altshuler will be starting a new position as an Associate Professor in Semantics at the University of Oxford, in the Faculty of … Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Vera Gor!
Last Wednesday, June 3rd, Vera Gor was our first-ever student to defend her dissertation entirely online! Fusing together psycholinguistic experimentation and syntactic theory, her dissertation is titled, “Experimental investigations of … Read More
Simon Charlow Awarded Fellowship for Research Excellence
Prof. Simon Charlow has been awarded The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship For Scholarly Excellence Award, for “exceptional research accomplishments of newly-promoted and tenured faculty members”. Congratulations, Professor Charlow!
Viviane Déprez’s Oxford Handbook of Negation Officially Published!
The Oxford Handbook of Negation, edited by our own Prof. Viviane Déprez and M.Teresa Espinal, was released earlier this month by Oxford University Press. The description of the book … Read More