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Category: Jobs

UCLA Linguistics Faculty Position in Syntax

Published: September 20, 2022

Job #JPF07851 • LINGUISTICS / L&S Humanities / UCLA POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Faculty Position in Syntax APPLICATION WINDOW Open date: September 20, 2022 Next review date: Monday, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue…

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Category: Conferences

UCLA @ SuB 27

Published: September 14, 2022

Sinn und Bedeutung 27 is happening this week, hosted by the Charles University in Prague. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists: Kalen Chang: Restrictiveness and the scope of adjectives Zahra Mirrazi (with Hedde Zeijlstra): Missing words and missing worlds Alum Natasha Korotkova: Conversational dynamics of razve-questions in Russian

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Category: Celebrations, General

Natasha Korotkova to join University of Utrecht faculty

Published: August 30, 2022

NATASHA KOROTKOVA (UCLA Ph.D, 2016) has been hired as an Universitair Docent at University College Utrecht, a liberal arts college within the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. (A Universitair Docent is also roughly equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the US.)  Since 2018 Natasha has been a postdoctoral fellow in Linguistics at…

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Category: Celebrations, General

Richard Stockwell to join Ulster University faculty

Published: August 30, 2022

RICHARD STOCKWELL (UCLA Ph.D., 2020) has been hired as a Lecturer in Linguistics at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  (A Lecturer position in the UK is roughly equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the US.) Since 2020, Richard has held a postdoctoral appointment as a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford,…

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Category: Celebrations, General

Maura O’Leary to join Swarthmore College faculty

Published: May 31, 2022

Maura O’Leary has just accepted a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Swarthmore College. Maura is a semanticist, field researcher, and teacher who recently defended her dissertation “About time: Lexical, Structural, and Discourse Constraints on the Temporal Interpretation of Nominal Predicates” and will graduate in June. Congrats, Maura, we’ll miss you!

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Category: General, Undergraduate Students

Bruin Linguists Society is excited to be hosting SCULC 2022 this Saturday!

Published: May 19, 2022

SCULC (the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference) will be held again at the Learning Pavilion in Campbell Hall by the University of California, Los Angeles Linguistics Department and the undergraduate-run linguistics society, Bruin Linguists Society. Founded in 2010 by Bruin Linguists, SCULC was established to create a collaborative and educational environment for the undergraduate linguistics community….

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Category: General

Z.L. Zhou on LSA Executive Committee

Published: May 18, 2022

Z.L. Zhou has been appointed Interim Student Representative to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America, serving through December 2022. Congratulations Z.L., and thank you for serving our professional society!

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