Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Baggett Fellow Chris Baron presents Generalized Concept Generators at the first poster session of this year's NELS.
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language hosts presentations by Phoebe, William, Natalia, Anna and Ellen; plus alumni Diogo Almeida, Akira Omaki, Utako Minai and Rob Fiorentino; and former postdocs Ming and Mathias.
NELS is in Montreal, with invited speakers Omer Preminger and Valentine Hacquard, a Terrapin double-header.
Dongwoo Park presents "VP as an Ellipsis Site in Korean" at NELS, which gives new data that Korean has VP ellipsis, and argues that such ellipsis is deletion that occurs during the syntactic derivation.
2010 alumnus Tim Hunter is an invited speaker at the First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing, with the talk "Left-Corner Parsing of Minimalist Grammars."
Two new publications, "A 'bag-of-arguments' mechanism for initial verb predictions" and "Interference in the processing of adjunct control," which report core parts of the dissertation work of Wing-Yee Chow and Dan Parker, respectively.
Big cheers for 12 Maryland language scientists and alums, plus their crew, who ran the Ragnar Relay in only about 28hrs.
Jeffrey Lidz gives the Linguistics Colloquium talk at Delaware.
Zoe, Annemarie, Chris Baron and Chris Vogel present work at MACSIM in Delaware.
Rachel Dudley presents an invited talk at "The Geography of Philosophy: Knowledge, Person, and Wisdom," a symposium at Pitt organized by Stephen Stich, Clark Barrett, and Edouard Machery.