This past May, Professor Adam McCollum traveled with graduate students Aidan Sharma, Ariela Ye, Merlin Balihaxi, and Colin Hirschberg to KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to do fieldwork on Kazakh. Under Adam’s supervision, the group pursued several diverse projects.
While in Kazakhstan, Aidan and Ariela worked on say-complementation, Aidan and Merlin worked on reciprocals, Merlin worked on stress, and Colin worked on vowel harmony.
The trip offered valuable experience in linguistic fieldwork and contributed new insights into the structure of Kazakh across multiple domains.