Rutgers professors taught a variety of courses at this summer’s Linguistics Society of America Institute, held at the University of Massachussets Amherst from June 19 to July 14.
Prof. Dorothy Ahn, with Prof. Florian Schwartz of UPenn, taught the course “Definiteness Systems within and across Languages”
Prof. Mark Baker taught the class “Complementizers Relating to Noun Phrases: Rare Constructions within a Theory of Universal Grammar“.
Prof. Adam Jardine taught the class “Formal Language Theory and Phonology” alongside his collaborator Prof. Jane Chandlee of Haverford College.
Prof. Kristen Syrett, together with Prof. Athulya Aravind of MIT, taught the class “Acquiring Word Meaning“.
Also, Emerita Prof. Veneeta Dayal, now at Yale, was named Fillmore Professor for the institute, presenting a lecture, “Navigating the Interfaces at the Interrogative Left Periphery.”
