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Graduate Students
Congratulations to our Ph.D.s!
Published: June 13, 2014How fast time flies! It’s that time of the year again where the department farewells its departing Ph.D. students. The annual doctoral hooding ceremony took place today together with a…
Read MoreUCLA-ers at AFLA
Published: June 12, 2014A 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 MoreBowler speaks at TripleA 1
Published: June 11, 2014Margit 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 MoreOrfitelli heads to Sheffield!
Published: June 11, 2014Robyn 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 MoreSemanticists at SALT 24 @ NYU
Published: June 1, 2014UCLA 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 MorePhoneticians at Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin
Published: May 19, 2014The 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 MoreKalin defends dissertation!
Published: May 16, 2014Laura Kalin defended her dissertation, Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic, yesterday (Chair: Anoop Mahajan). Congratulations Laura!
Read MoreTellings speaks at SULA 8 @ UBC
Published: May 15, 2014Jos Tellings will swapping the SoCal heat for the cool Pacific Northwest this weekend. He will be presenting at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 8 which will take…
Read MoreWard and McPherson defend dissertations!
Published: May 14, 2014Kaeli Ward and Laura McPherson both successfully defended their dissertations last week! Kaeli Ward: On Backtracking Counterfactuals (Chair: Yael Sharvit) Laura McPherson: Replacive Grammatical Tone in the Dogon Languages (Co-Chairs:…
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