Rutgers Linguists at Sinn und Bedeutung 30 - Linguistics Graduate Students Association

Rutgers Linguistics was well represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), held in Frankfurt, Germany, this year. Our new semantics faculty member, Professor Ryan Walter Smith, presented a poster on “The semantics of memory reports in Sorani Kurdish.”

Professor Ryan Walter Smith presenting his poster at SuB30.

There were also five talks by Rutgers students (Quartz Colvin, Ariela Ye and Vinny Czarnecki) and recent Rutgers alum (Sreekar Raghotham). Ziling Zhu, a graduate alum, was also in attendance at the conference.

Sreekar Raghotham, Professor Ryan Walter Smith, Vinny Czarnecki, Ziling Zhu, Ariela Ye, Quartz Colvin, and Ying Zhang at SuB30.

Aside from the main session, the conference also featured a strong Rutgers presence in workshops, including the LingDem workshop, where Ying Zhang presented her joint work with Professor Dorothy Ahn.