Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Brad Larson is presenting "WYSIWYG RNR" at the CUNY Syntax Supper.
Yakov Kronrod, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, and Jeff Lidz went to Northwood High School in Silver Spring to speak with 100 AP Psychology students about linguistic structure and its connection to language acquisition and other areas of cognition.
Kenshi Funakoshi's "On Headless XP-Movement/Ellipsis'' is to appear in "Linguistic Inquiry".
Congratulations to Jeff Lidz and Csilla Katjar, on issue 19(1) of Language Acquisition, the first with Jeff as Editor-in-Chief and Csilla as Managing Editor.
Annie Gagliardi, Bradley Larson, Dave Kush, and Alexis Wellwood – with Naomi Feldman, Colin Phillips, Jeffrey Lidz, Paul Pietroski and Justin Halberda from Johns Hopkins – are presenting at the LSA.
Juan Uriagereka, Professor in Linguistics and Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, has recently published a new book, <i>Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program</i>.
The LSA's Best Paper in <i>Language</i> 2011 Award goes to Jon Sprouse *07 for "A test of the cognitive assumptions of magnitude estimation: Commutativity does not hold for acceptability judgments."
Dave Kush has a paper published in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, entitled "Height-Relative Determination of (Non-Root) Modal Flavor: Evidence from Hindi".
Dave Kush is back from three weeks in India running experiments on the processing of Hindi reciprocals. The work was done at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
"Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" by Robert Berwick, Paul Pietroski, Beracah Yankama and Noam Chomsky has appeared in September's Cognitive Science.