Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post
Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.
We are happy to welcome two new Baggett Fellows, Lawrence Chen (U. British Columbia) and Josh Falk (Stanford), as well as new RAs Glynis MacMillan (UMass Amherst) and Allison Fogel (Tufts U.), and MEG Lab manager Elizabeth Nguyen (Reed).
We are delighted to welcome six new members to our graduate program: Rachel Dudley (NYU), Peter Enns (UMD), Michael Fetters (UMD), Chris Heffner (MSU), Dongwoo Park (Seoul National) and Zoe Schlueter (York, Edinburgh).
Welcome to Tom Grano, who joins us after receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago with a dissertation titled "Control and restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface".
Jeff Lidz teaches a course, "Inside the LAD," at the École d'Automne de Linguistique, sponsored by the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Superieure, Paris.
Alumnus Jon Sprouse, *07 has been awarded the 2013 Early Career Award by the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society America.
Alexis Wellwood presents "Back to basics: *more* is always *much-er*" at the 17th annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference.
Tim Hunter and Jeff Lidz's paper "Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners" has been published in the Journal of Semantics.
Featured in the new Semantics and Pragmatics, a paper by Valentine and Alexis: "Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study."
Work by Annie Gagliardi, Yakov Kronrod, Alexis Wellwood and Cybelle Smith is to be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Alexis Wellwood and Aaron White have both received scholarships to NASSLLI, held June 18-22 at UT Austin.