Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Nick Huang presents "Is there syntactic tense in Mandarin Chinese? Some evidence from "jiang"" at the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, held this year at UCLA.
Jeffrey Lidz honored by the University as a Distinguished Scholar Teacher.
Just out in Linguistic Variation, "The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan," by Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro and our own Omer Preminger.
WCCFL 33 features work by Dongwoo, Kate, Valentine and Jeff, as well as alumni Alexis Wellwood, Alex Drummond, Dave Kush, Brad Larson, and imminent Terp Maria Polinsky, while alumnus Matt Wagers *08 gives a keynote address.
Now out in Frontiers, "Hyper-active Gap-filling" by Akira Omaki, Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips, and RAs Imogen White, Myles Dakan and Aaron Apple.
Dan Parker, class of 2014, has won the J.J. Katz Young Scholar Award at the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
The CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at USC hosts 40 presentations by 30 UMD students, faculty, RAs, alumni, postdocs and visitors, drawn from Linguistics, HESP, CASL, NACS, Psychology and Philosophy.
Alexander Williams gives the colloquium talk at Rutgers.
Omer Preminger presents "Syntactic operations exceed what the interfaces can account for" in Leipzig at the Alternative to Formal Features Workshop sponsored by the German Society for Linguistics.
GALANA features work by Kaitlyn Harrigan, Juliana Gerard, Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, alumna Morgan Moyer and visitor Elaine Grolla, plus introductory remarks from Howard.