Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Now in Glossa, Omer Preminger shows us What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality. And what that is, is that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint.
The LSA's Annual Meeting has work by Suyoung, Tyler, and Phoebe, with faculty collaborators, as well as a report on gender bias in our field, by a large group of our students, led by Hanna and Phoebe.
The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.
The keynote address at the Symposium on Childhood Bilingualism and Heritage Language Acquisition in Hong Kong is by Maria Polinsky, who will give an overview of Heritage Languages and Heritage Linguistics: Present and Future.
Nick Huang's "Control complements in Mandarin Chinese" is now out in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
Maria Polinsky argues at UC Irvine's colloquium, that "It's still about grammar: Cascading structural reorganization in bilinguals."
Now out from Emeritus Professor Paul Pietroski, "Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values."
Now out in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, "The importance of input representations" from Jeffrey Lidz and Laurel Perkins.
Maria Polinsky gives a talk in Moscow on cross-linguistic differences among exceptive constructions, such as "Все, кроме Маши, засмеялись" ('Everyone but Masha laughed'), with some but not all being derived through clausal ellipsis.
Maria Polinsky talks at the Winter Neurolinguistics School, sponsored by the Center for Language and Brain at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.