Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Sigwan Thivierge is an original member of Natives4Linguistics, a new Special Interest Group convened under the auspices the Linguistic Society of America.
NELS50 has talks by Aaron Doliana, Paolo Santorio from Philosophy, and 2015 alum Aaron Steven White.
Jon Sprouse *07 IS first recipient of an LSA award to honor "excellence for scholarship in syntax" by a mid-career researcher, endowed by the family of the late C.L. Baker.
2008 Baggett Fellow Elika Bergelson is awarded the Steve Reznick Early Career Award by the Cognitive Development Society.
Maria Polinsky lectures on "Experimental Approaches" at the Third International School in Formal Linguistics at Ilia State University in Tblisi.
Omer Preminger provides "further evidence against binding-as-agreement" at the University of Oslo with an invited talk titled 'The Anaphor Agreement Effect.'
Tyler Knowlton argues that "Concepts of universal quantification ("each" and "all") may support infant and adult understanding of collective and distributive actions."
Maria Polinsky keynotes the 9th meeting in the Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters series, in Moscow, with "Look Right," a talk focussing on the right edge of clauses in Tongan.
Jeffrey Lidz keynotes the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Linguistics Workshop on Syntax-Semantics Interface, Language Acquisition, and Naturalistic Data Analysis, along with former LING postdoc Ivano Caponigro.
Chia-Hsuan Liao is at Nortwestern's International Brain and Syntax Think Tank presenting "The time course of computing verb-argument relations in sentence comprehension: Evidence from the N400," joint work with Ellen Lau and Wing Yee Chow *13.