Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Nancy Clarke, Michaela Socolof, Annemarie van Dooren and Sigwan Thivierge are in Tbilisi with Maria Polinsky, continuing work on Georgian that grew out of the year-long Fieldmethods class that Masha taught with Omer Preminger.
Jeffrey Green is 2017 recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.
Maria Polinsky teaches "Generative Syntax and Formal Typology" at the 2017 Tbilisi Summer School in Linguistics, together with Eric Potsdam.
Chris Heffner heads to UConn with two years of NSF support for "Identifying a Common Mechanism for Phonetic Learning and Phonetic Adaptation," a project with Emily Myers and Peter Molfese.
Ewan Dunbar starts as Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle.
The NY-St.Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Language and Culture hosts two seminars, "The many failures of Agree" and "The Structure of Human Language: An Introduction to Generative Syntax," taught by Omer Preminger and Maria Polinsky.
Sigwan Thivierge is in Göttingen, giving a joint presentation on negation, "Negation & Co.," with local PhD students Marten Stelling and Jovana Gajić, as part of the The Landscape of Neg-words Project led by Hedde Zeijlstra.
Naomi Feldman's "Modeling the Development of Phonetic Representations" has just won 3 years of NSF support.
"How can feature sharing be asymmetric?" asks Omer Preminger in a new volume of Papers for David Pesetsky.
Check out "Antipassive, Experimental approaches to ergativity," "Split ergativity is not about ergativity" and "Ergativity and Austronesian-type voice systems "in the Oxford Handbook of Ergativity from Maria Polinsky, Omer Preminger and Ted Levin.