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The Department of LinguisticsA little old news: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association took place a couple of weeks ago at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. UCLA’s Kie Zuraw…
Read MoreMargit Bowler is headed over to Tübingen, Germany, where she will be presenting at The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 1). Her talk entitled: Coordination and disjunction…
Read MoreRobyn Orfitelli (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. of Iowa) will be taking up a tenure-track position at the University of Sheffield, UK, starting in the Fall. Congratulations Robyn!!
Read MoreSandy Disner (Ph.D. 1983; now at USC) was interviewed on CNN Newsroom yesterday in relation to the current news story regarding former American P.O.W. Bowe Bergdahl’s potential language attrition.
Read MoreNatasha Abner (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. Chicago) will take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University in New Jersey, starting this Fall. Congratulations…
Read MoreBenjamin George (Ph.D. 2011, currently at Yale) will be taking up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, starting this Fall. Congratulations Ben!
Read MoreUCLA Semanticists Margit Bowler and Yael Sharvit both presented at SALT 24 this weekend at NYU in New York City. Margit Bowler, Conjunction and disjunction in a language without ‘and’….
Read MoreDepartment Chair, Bruce Hayes, writes: Jessica Rett’s tenure has come through — the occasion for a spontaneous and well-attended champagne celebration that spilled from her office into the s-side hallway! …
Read MoreThe biannual Speech Prosody conference is taking place this week in Dublin, Ireland. UCLA phoneticians (current and former) will be well-represented! Ann Bailey, Intonational Phonology of Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary…
Read MoreLaura Kalin defended her dissertation, Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic, yesterday (Chair: Anoop Mahajan). Congratulations Laura!
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