Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Allyson Ettinger is at the Communication Science Laboratory of Tohoku University, meeting with students and giving two invited talks, one to their NLP group and one to their psycholinguistics group.
Ellen Lau is at the Graduate Linguistics Expo at Michigan State, presenting 'Linguistic structure forwards and backwards: Prediction and memory representation,' one of two invited talks at this year's GLEAMS meeting.
Several students are in Boston for the AAAS Family Science Days, running the Language Science for Everyone booth, organized by Laura Wagner from the Ohio State University.
Many students and faculty are in D.C. for Language Advocacy Day, an annual event organized by the Joint National Committee on Language.
February 20-22 in Singapore, work by Aaron Doliana, Dongwoo Park and Rodrigo Ranero will be presented at the 11th Generative Linguistics of the Old World in Asia conference.
Colin Phillips is in Pavia at the 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, giving an invited talk on "Order and direction in grammar, speaking and understanding," at a special workshop on "Order and direction in grammatical operations."
Now out as Chapter 10 in the Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar, "The argument from the poverty of the stimulus" by Howard Lasnik and Jeffrey Lidz.
Naomi Feldman speaks at a Workshop on Speech Representation, Perception and Recognition at MIT's Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, along with former Maryland linguistics faculty David Poeppel.
Omer Preminger is at the Berkeley Syntax & Semantics Circle, talking about "What the PCC tells us about ‘abstract’ agreement, head movement, and locality".
Rodrigo Ranero has won a Firebird Fellowship for the Documentation of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, along with Yolanda Estrada, professor in the School of History at Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala.