Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post
Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.
Chris Dyer *10 becomes Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science, with a cross-appointment in the Machine Learning Department.
Welcome to Anna Bonnet, Morgan Moyer, Ilanna Newman, Emma Nguyen, Alex Ralph, and Sandy Wan – six undergraduate Linguistics majors who have been awarded funded research positions to work on language science projects this summer.
Tim Hunter *10 has accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, within its Institute of Linguistics.
At the 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop at Yale, Brad Larson presents "Wh-dependencies without movement in Germanic."
At SALT 22, Shevaun Lewis presents "The semantics and pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers", work with Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz, while Alexander Williams presents "Null Complement Anaphors as definite descriptions."
Kenshi Funakoshi presents "Backward control in external possession constructions in Japanese" at the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
Brad Larson presents "Not-so-across-the-board-movement in Macedonian" at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics in Bloomington, Indiana,
Twelve ARHU doctoral students receive 2012-2013 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships.Congratulations to ARHU’s Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellows!
Annie Gagliardi has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSF/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Fund.
May 4-5, the department hosts Mayfest 2012, "The Role of Computational Models in Linguistic Theory".