Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Rachel Dudley and Jeff Lidz are in College Park, MD for SALT 27.
Alumnus Brian Dillon has won the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award.
Now out in Glossa, "Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity: When two systems meet" by Gregory Scontras, Maria Polinsky, C.-Y. Edwin Tsai and Kenneth Mai.
Kasia Hitczenko will be in Reiko Mazuka's lab this summer, working on models of phonetic category acquisition that take into account prosody's effects on vowel length, with support from the NSF's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.
Ellen gives an invited talk at the 8th annual University of Connecticut Language Fest on ‘New Directions for Neural Measures of Syntactic and Semantic Structure Building'.
2011 alum Brian Dillon is now Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMass.
Gesoel Mendes and Rodrigo Ranero present "Restrictions on Adjunct Extraction: Microvariation in Mayan" at Cambridge Comparative Syntax 6.
Alexis Wellwood, 2009 Baggett alum and 2014 PhD alum, becomes Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC.
Howard Lasnik is at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, giving the Lois E. Matthews Lecture, on "Locality and Quasi-Locality – Old and New Approaches to ‘Clause-mate’ Phenomena".
Aaron Steven White is soon to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at the University of Rochester, with secondary appointments in the Computer Science and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.