Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
"Syntactic Structures after 60 years" is now out, including essays by Howard, Norbert Jeff, Omer, Paul, Jon Sprouse *07 and Chomsky himself, accompanying a reprint of his 1957 classic.
GLOW41 has a talk and a poster by Maxime Papillon, as well as a symposium organized by Maria Polinsky with Marcel den Dikken, on "Predication in relation to propositions and properties."
Sigwan Thivierge talks at the 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, on the syntax of roots in Nishnaabemwin.
Jackie Nelligan wins a NSF-GRF "Surprisal and dependency length in morphologically rich languages", and Hanna Muller earns Honorable Mention for "Negative polarity illusions and the temporal dynamics of sentence comprehension."
The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has granted its Fridtjof Nansen award for researchers under 40 to 2010 alum Terje Lohndal.
2015 alum Naho Orita is to be Lecturer at Tokyo University of Science.
Colin Phillips is at UMass giving their colloquium talk, on "Speaking, understanding, and grammar."
Fresh in Glossa, "Grammaticalized number, implicated presuppositions, and the plural" from Adam Liter with Tess Huelskamp, Chris Heffner *17, and Cristina Schmitt *96.
The County of Yolo crawls with Terps, and CUNY has a focus on Ellen Lau (who is party to 12 presentations!) and Colin Phillips, who are invited speakers at a Special Session called "Linguistic Computation Electrified".
New in Glossa, "The scope of children’s scope" by Jeffrey Lidz and and "Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity" by Gregory Scontras, Maria Polinsky, C.-Y. Edwin Tsai and Kenneth Mai.