Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Suyoung Bae presents "The relaxation of the radical reconstruction in Korean long-distance scrambling" at the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, held this year in Toyko, Japan.
Howard Lasnik is at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, discussing "Clauses, Quasi-Clauses, and Phases: A Surprising Generalization and a Speculation" at a colloquium talk, and then giving a 3 day mini-course at South China Normal University.
Nine ARHU graduate students receive 2017-18 Flagship Fellowships.
Maria Polinsky leads the 10th Heritage Language Research Institute in Urbana-Champaign.
Maria Polinsky is at Queen Mary University of London, giving three days of lectures as the first Randolph Quirk Fellow, an honor due to a generous donation from The Lord Quirk.
Rachel Dudley and Jeff Lidz are in College Park, MD for SALT 27.
Alumnus Brian Dillon has won the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award.
Now out in Glossa, "Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity: When two systems meet" by Gregory Scontras, Maria Polinsky, C.-Y. Edwin Tsai and Kenneth Mai.
Kasia Hitczenko will be in Reiko Mazuka's lab this summer, working on models of phonetic category acquisition that take into account prosody's effects on vowel length, with support from the NSF's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.
Ellen gives an invited talk at the 8th annual University of Connecticut Language Fest on ‘New Directions for Neural Measures of Syntactic and Semantic Structure Building'.