{"id":2669,"date":"2022-09-17T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2022-09-17T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:45:24","slug":"luke-adamson-joins-as-visiting-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/luke-adamson-joins-as-visiting-lecturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Adamson joins as visiting lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Luke Adamson, who joins Rutgers Linguistics as a visiting lecturer. Get to know Luke a bit better with his self-introduction below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2673 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-174x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Luke Adamson\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-174x300.jpeg 174w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-594x1024.jpeg 594w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-768x1323.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-892x1536.jpeg 892w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-1189x2048.jpeg 1189w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_2394-scaled.jpeg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi! My name is Luke Adamson, and I\u2019m excited to be in the linguistics department at Rutgers as a visiting lecturer this year. I did my graduate studies at UPenn, and before this current position at Rutgers, I was an NSF-sponsored postdoc at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>My main research focus in recent years has been the morphosyntactic representation of grammatical gender: markedness relations among gender features, interpretation, and the syntactic locus of gender features. I\u2019ve studied (and continue to study) gender from various angles: the notion of gender \u2018defaults\u2019; coordination resolution; locality in valuation; scope ambiguity; among others. I\u2019m also more generally interested in modularity and how phi-features behave at the syntax\/morphology interface, so I\u2019ve worked on e.g. prenominal\/postnominal agreement asymmetries in nominal coordination, number-based root suppletion, and the weird behaviors of exceptionally inflectionless elements like loanword adjectives.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall semester, I\u2019m teaching the two sections of the undergraduate syntax course, and in the spring, I\u2019ll be teaching a graduate syntax seminar and the linguistics intro course. Beyond linguistics, I enjoy art music (broadly construed, not just what you&#8217;d consider classical music); my husband and I both play cello; I enjoy learning about topics like urban planning; and I take long walks pretty frequently.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to getting to know people in the department and hearing about their research projects!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2675\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2675\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me and my husband with our (linguist) friend Sabriya Fisher by the Charles River in the Boston area.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/09\/IMG_1005-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and my husband with our (linguist) friend Sabriya Fisher by the Charles River in the Boston area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\ud83c\udf89 Welcome to Rutgers, Luke! \ud83c\udf89 <\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Luke Adamson, who joins Rutgers Linguistics as a visiting lecturer. 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