Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Chris Heffner heads to the Language Pod at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, to serve for 2 months as a mentor on behalf an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program at our Big Ten partner, The Ohio State University.
Bon voyage to Rodrigo Ranero, Chris Baron, Paulina Lyskawa, Gesoel Mendes, Theodore Levin, Omer Preminger and Maria Polinsky, who on May 31 leave for Tecpan, Patzun, and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, on the first group trip to the Guatemalan Field Station.
Fresh out the box, Theodore Levin's "Successive-cyclic case assignment: Korean nominative-nominative case-stacking", in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
2015 alumnus Dustin Chacón returns to his alma mater as a contract assistant professor in the Institute of Linguistics at Minnesota.
Omer Preminger is in eastern Germany discussing intervention and agreement, first with "Feeding relations and their breakdowns: A theory of dative intervention."
The department hosts Mayfest 2016, "Context", doubling this year as PHLINC3.
Valentine Hacquard and Ailis Cournane present "Constraints on modal variation across languages and development" at New Research on Modality, a one-day workshop at Georgetown.
Valentine Hacquard is at Montgomery-Blair High School, talking about semantics.
Rachel Dudley is selected as a finalist for the Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award, one of only five across the entire university.
Paulina Lyskawa has won a doctoral fellowship from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for her proposal, "The relation of case, agreement and word order in three varieties of Heritage Polish."