Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
CLS has an invited talk by Valentine, plus a talk and a poster by Jeff Green, the former representing joint work with Michael McCourt, Ellen and Alexander.
Maria Polinsky asks "How do I know I am in the right field?" at the Georgetown Morphosyntax Workshop.
Mina Hirzel is a special alumni speaker at the Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, "Local and long distance dependencies in 16 to 20 month-olds."
WCCFL 36 has a poster from Gesoel Mendes plus two from philosophy student Quinn Harr, one co-authored with Alexander Williams
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research at Utrecht has a keynote by Jeffrey Lidz, "2nd year syntax," and a talk by alum Juliana Gerard, "Errors, predictions, and continuity in grammar and processing."
"Syntactic Structures after 60 years" is now out, including essays by Howard, Norbert Jeff, Omer, Paul, Jon Sprouse *07 and Chomsky himself, accompanying a reprint of his 1957 classic.
GLOW41 has a talk and a poster by Maxime Papillon, as well as a symposium organized by Maria Polinsky with Marcel den Dikken, on "Predication in relation to propositions and properties."
Sigwan Thivierge talks at the 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, on the syntax of roots in Nishnaabemwin.
Jackie Nelligan wins a NSF-GRF "Surprisal and dependency length in morphologically rich languages", and Hanna Muller earns Honorable Mention for "Negative polarity illusions and the temporal dynamics of sentence comprehension."
The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has granted its Fridtjof Nansen award for researchers under 40 to 2010 alum Terje Lohndal.