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The Department of LinguisticsHilda Koopman and Tim Stowell will be teaching at the Linguistics Summer school in Göttingen, Germany on July 30-August 10, 2018. The title of their course is “Form-meaning mismatches in natural language.”
Read MoreUCLA also has a good showing at GLOW 41 this year. Visiting Professor Ethan Poole will be presenting a paper with Stefan Keine entitled “Reconstruction beyond English.” And alumna Laura Kalin will be presenting, “The Ins and Outs of Allomorphy in Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic).”
Read MoreA number of UCLA faculty and students will be presenting at SALT 28 this year (congrats, everyone!): Maayan Abenina-Adar (grad student) and Yael Sharvit Dylan Bumford Ethan Poole, “Spurious NPI licensing is covert licensing” (with Jon Ander Mendia & Brian Dillon) Richard Stockwell (grad student), “Ellipsis in tautologous conditionals”
Read MoreEmeritus Edward Keenan and Kai von Fintel (MIT) have just published a paper in the Journal of Semantics, entitled ”Determiners, conservativity, witnesses”. Abstract here.
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has just published a paper, entitled “The semantics of many, much, few and little,” in the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. The goal of the paper is to provide an overview of semantic theories of these words, especially in light of recent innovations in degree semantics.
Read MoreA number of faculty members and students from the UCLA Linguistics Department presented at the Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City at the beginning of January. LSA Talks: Eleanor Glewwe, Jesse Zymet, Jacob Adams, Rachel Jacobson, Anthony Yates, Ann Zeng, & Robert Daland “Substantive bias and the acquisition of final (de)voicing…
Read MoreHilda Koopman is a co-author on “Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction.” (with Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt), which will be presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium in Dec 2017.
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun and Taehong Cho (PhD in 2001) each gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces in Japanese and Korean, held at the Univ of Hawai’i on Oct. 11, 2017. Larry Hyman (PhD in 1972) participated at the Workshop as an Invited Discussant. The workshop was a satellite meeting of…
Read MoreVictoria Mateu, Nina Hyams and Lauren Winans will be presenting a paper in the upcoming Boston University Conference on Language Development (November 3-5) entitled: Intervention Effects in Early Grammar: Evidence from Sluicing. They also presented a paper, Where Ellipsis Meets Wh-movement: Sluicing in Early Grammar, at the GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) conference held…
Read MoreMarc Garellek (Ph.D. 2013) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UCSD. Congratulations, Marc!
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