Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Back in Patzún for a week of field work on Tzu'tujiil are Rodrigo Ranero, Paulina Lyskawa and former postdoc Theodore Levin, continuing their investigation of absolutive agreement in the Santiago variety of the language.
Check out Philip Resnick in Politico on the use of NLP and data analysis for government work.
Zach Stone gives a poster at the first meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, a group founded in part by Marylanders Naomi Feldman and Tim Hunter.
UMD fields three posters at the LSA, two by Jeffrey Green, one by Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, with former postdoc Theodore Levin.
Maria Polinsky joins a 3-year project on Grammatical Dynamics in Language Contact, led by Heike Wiese at the University of Potsdam and funded by the German Research Foundation, as one of two Mercator Fellow visiting professors.
At the Amsterdam Colloquium, Annemarie van Dooren and Anouk Dieuleveut present "Learning what ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean," their joint work with Valentine and NYU's Ailis Cournane.
Allison and Jeffrey Green welcome their daughter Holly, born on the evening of December 14, and joining her brother August in good health.
Now available, the Proceedings of GLOW XI in Asia, featuring papers by Yu'an, Aaron, Rodrigo and 2017 alumnus Dongwoo Park.
Valentine Hacquard gives the colloquium talk at UMass Linguistics, on how children the meanings of modals, such as "must" or "might".
Omer Preminger is at the 10th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, "Assessing the morphosemantic program for phi-features."