Congratulations to Ryan Walter Smith, Josep Ausensi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Jianrong Yu on their recent publication in Isogloss. The article, titled “Strong and weak resultatives with result roots … Read More
Rutgers Linguistics had a very strong presence at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, with faculty, graduate students, and alumni contributing across multiple sessions. Graduate alum Meg Gotowski … Read More
Congratulations to Professor Kristen Syrett on her recent publication examining how children interpret count nouns and evaluate quantity when presented with partial objects. The article investigates why children often “over-count” … Read More
In December, Professor Adam McCollum gave an invited talk on the acoustics of vowels to a highly enthusiastic audience of approximately 80 first graders. The students were introduced to key … Read More
On January 9th, Professor Ryan Walter Smith presented a talk at the 100th Annual Meeting of the LSA in New Orleans. His talk was on joint work with Professor Dorothy … Read More
Troy Messick presented two posters at The Annual Meeting of the LSA 2026. One poster, co-authored with Merlin Balihaxi, was titled “Indexical and Agreement Shifting in Kazakh,” and was presented … Read More
At the end of May this year, Dr. Dorothy Ahn and graduate student Quartz Colvin both gave talks at Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED2026), held at the Transilvania University of … Read More
At the end of November, Professor Dorothy Ahn was an invited speaker at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS21). Her talk was titled “Fake nouns: Reconsidering the role … Read More
November 7th-8th, graduate alum Meg Gotowski (PhD 2022, now at William & Mary) gave two presentations at The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD50) The first presentation … Read More
On November 7, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at the University of British Columbia’s Linguistics Department. The talk was titled “Growth & Improvement: a quality semantics for … Read More