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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by…
Read MoreNikolaos Angelopoulos, (2019, Hilda Koopman & Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs), Complementizers and Prepositions as Probes: Insights from Greek.
Read MoreOur very own Nina Hyams has been chosen to be an LSA Fellow. She will be inaugurated into the 2020 class this January. Congratulations, Nina!
Read MoreCongratulations to linguistics graduate student Travis Major for being chosen as a recipient of the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award. These awards “recognize outstanding graduate…
Read MoreFourth year graduate student Richard Stockwell has been awarded a $250 abstract prize from the 43rd Penn Linguistics Conference. Richard’s submission, “Intensionality, contrast and ellipsis,” was one of the three…
Read MoreSecond year graduate student Z.L. Zhou has received an honorable mention for the Nation Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. According to the NSF, an honorable mention constitutes “a significant…
Read MoreProf. Ed Keenan has received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, given to Who’s Who biographees who have demonstrated leadership, excellence and longevity within their respective industries and professions….
Read MoreSophia Luo received a departmental Undergraduate Research and Travel Award for her participation in the Fall Acoustical Society of America meeting. Sophia assisted with the project “Tongue bracing under bite…
Read MoreGraduate student Canaan Breiss and lab manager Stephanie Rich have each received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award that provides three years of financial support during five years…
Read MoreOur graduate student Connor Mayer received a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Doctoral Award from the Canadian government, under the application title Embodied primitives in phonological theory! The…
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