Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Omer explains "How to tell a syntactic phenomenon when you see it," at the Groningen Syntax Workshop, brought to you by UG, the second oldest Dutch university.
The Workshop on the Syntax of Polynesian Languages has a keynote talk from Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam on Tongan VOS word order.
"Individuals and non-individuals in cognition and semantics" from UBC's Darko Odic with Jeffrey Lidz, emeritus professor Paul Pietroski, alumnus Tim Hunter, and Justin Halberda from Johns Hopkins.
"Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphologically-poor language," by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, is now out in the Proceedings of BUCLD.
Philip Resnik's project on "Tackling the AI Mental Health Data Crisis" will be supported by an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award.
Valentine Hacquard gives three talks on the acquisition of modals and attitudes at UCL, reporting on with a work with a number of student and faculty collaborators.
Jeffrey Green is to be Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign starting, with a focus on psycho- and neurolinguistics.
A new international group is at the Guatemala Field Station, for two weeks of intensive Kaqchikel, then two weeks of research with local languages: Kaqchikel, Tz'utujil, Q'anjob'al, and Chuj.
"Verbal Agreement in Santiago Tz'utujiil", a project led by Rodrigo Ranero, Paulina Lyskawa, and former postdoc Ted Levin's, has been awarded a grant from Jacobs Research Funds.
Jeffrey Lidz gives a colloquium talk at Northwestern, "Second Year Syntax," which includes discussion of joint work with Laurel Perkins.