Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Zoe Schlueter is in Bilbao at the 16th AMLaP, presenting "The impact of coordination on agreement processing: Abstract and surface cues to plurality", with co-authors Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams.
A warm greeting to Aaron, Anouk, Mina, Rodrigo, Sigwan, and Tyler, now only 5 years from being Maryland Linguistics alumni!
Theodore Levin is at the National University of Singapore speaking "On the complementarity of case/agreement and (pseudo) noun incorporation," at the invitation of the Department of English Language & Literature.
Now in Frontiers in Psychology, "Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla," by 2015 alumnus Dustin Chacón, with Colin Phillips and co-authors from the Universities of Dhaka and Calcutta.
Hello to our new Baggetts, Michaela and Jackie, as well as RAs Hanna and Nancy, who will work with Colin and Masha, respectively.
Kaitlyn Harrigan *15 is to be Lecturer of Psycholinguistics in the Department of Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
Juliana Gerard is now Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Communication at Ulster University, where she will work with Jacopo Romoli.
Allyson Ettinger's "Probing for semantic evidence of composition by means of simple classification tasks," with Philip Resnik and Ahmed Elgohary, has been judged best paper at the Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP.
Valentine Hacquard and NYU's Ailis Cournane have won two years of NSF support for "Acquiring the Language of Possibility: Consequences for language variation and change.:
Three new articles from Maria Polinsky: "Structure vs. use in heritage language," "Bilingual children and adult heritage speakers," and "Looking ahead."