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The Department of LinguisticsProfessor Keenan has published a new book: Eliminating the Universe (Logical Properties of Natural Language) by World Scientific Press. He also gave a one month series of lectures on syntactic typology at the Universite de Paris Nouvelle this Spring.
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica Rett and Russ Schuh on the publication of their new books. Jessica’s book, The Semantics of Evaluativity, is published by Oxford University Press and was acclaimed by many distinguished outside reviewers during her recent tenure review. It is now available on Amazon.com! Russ Schuh is a co-author of Bole-English Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist, just published…
Read MoreThis past weekend, local West LA children’s books store, Children’s Book World, held a book signing for our very own second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe. Eleanor’s first young adults book, Sparkers, was recently published by Viking Press (a subsidiary of the Penguin Group). This is the second book signing/launch event for this book, the first being one…
Read MoreCongratulations to second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe on the Sept. 30 release of her first book, Sparkers, published by Viking Juvenile for Middle Grade readers. Eleanor will have a premier for the release in her hometown of St. Paul MN, but the book’s California launch event (with book signing) will be hosted by Children’s Book…
Read MoreEd Keenan’s 1987 volume, “Universal Grammar: 15 Essays,” has been reprinted, this time by Routledge (much to Ed’s pleasant surprise!). Congrats Ed!
Read MoreModified repost from the the Department’s news page: Professor Sun-Ah Jun has cemented her reputation as one of the world’s leading intonation experts with her massive (600 page) edited volume Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, just out with Oxford University Press. This is the second book in a series, and covers…
Read MoreCongratulations to four newly published authors in our department! Professors Hilda Koopman, Dominique Sportiche, and Edward Stabler have published their long-awaited syntactic theory textbook An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell. ——- Graduate student Laura McPherson has completed her 600-page reference grammar, entitled A Grammar of Tommo So. Tommo So…
Read MoreHilda Koopman writes: Please join me in congratulating Tomoko Ishizuka (PhD 2010) on the publication of her book: The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach. Congratulations Tomoko!
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