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Valentine at NY Philosophy Workshop
May 09, 2019Valentine Hacquard talks about "Possibilities and Necessities in Acquisition" at the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, a weekly meeting group that hosts invited speakers.
Schlueter, Parker & Lau on agreement attraction
May 07, 2019In the new Frontiers, we learn that Error-Driven Retrieval in Agreement Attraction Rarely Leads to Misinterpretation, from alumni Zoe Schlueter *17 and Dan Parker *14, along with Zoe's former advisor, Ellen Lau.
Rodrigo at WSCLA
May 06, 2019Rodrigo Ranero presents "Voice Mismatches in Kaqchikel (Mayan) Sluicing" at WSCLA 24, hosted here at UMD.
Paulina and Rodrigo with Bill in Norway at GLOW
May 01, 2019GLOW 42 in Oslo has "A Mayan Diagnostic for the Unergative vs. Unaccusative Distinction" from Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, as well "Phonological learning: auditory, visual, computational and animal perspectives," an invited talk by Bill Idsardi.
Omer and Chris Hammerly at USC workshop
April 29, 2019Omer Preminger discusses "The modular locus of the Person Case Constraint" at Person and Perspective, a workshop at USC in honor of María Luisa Zubizaretta.
Zoe Ovans with Brian and Akira in JML
April 23, 2019Now in the Journal of Memory and Language, "Rebels without a clause: Processing reflexives in fronted wh-predicates, from past and present Terps Akira Omaki, Zoe Ovans and Brian Dillon, as well as Harvard student Anthony Yacovone.
Linguistics at UG Research Day
April 16, 2019Undergraduate Research Day features posters by Linguistics undergraduates Mariam Aiyad, Abigail Kameny, Divya Lahori, Lillianna Righter, and William Simpson.
Lilli Righter at William & Mary
April 15, 2019Undergraduate Lillianna Righter is at VALING, the Virginia Area Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, explaining "Infants' use of the verb-event link to learn verb meaning," based on work done with Jeffrey Lidz.
Zach Wellstood awarded NSF GRFP
April 11, 2019RA Zachary Wellstood earns support from the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, to carry out "the first formal study of the syntax and semantics of juncture morphemes in any Central Khoisan language."
QS ranks UMD Linguistics #3 worldwide
April 11, 2019The 2019 QS World University Rankings have Maryland at #3 worldwide for Linguistics degrees, "an "eye-catching climb" up the table for [Maryland], which has risen 10 places from 13th to third," say the rankers.