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Category: Awards, Celebrations, Faculty, General

Jessica Rett is receiving the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award

Published: October 23, 2019

Congratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by…

Category: Awards

Congratulations to Nikolaos Angelopoulos for Receiving his PhD!

Published: October 17, 2019

Nikolaos Angelopoulos, (2019, Hilda Koopman & Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs), Complementizers and Prepositions as Probes: Insights from Greek.

Category: Alumni

On October 14/15 2019, 3 generations of UCLA alumni met up at a workshop of the LACA (Language Abilities in Children with Autism) network in Patras, Greece.

Published: October 17, 2019

(From left to right: Jeanette Schaeffer (PhD 1997), Nikos Angelopoulos (PhD 2019) and Laurie Tuller (Phd 1986))

Category: Awards, Faculty

Nina Hyams to be named as an LSA Fellow!

Published: October 2, 2019

Our very own Nina Hyams has been chosen to be an LSA Fellow. She will be inaugurated into the 2020 class this January. Congratulations, Nina!

Category: General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Richard Stockwell and Deborah Wong to Present at the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society

Published: September 27, 2019

Richard Stockwell & Deborah Wong will be presenting their paper “Sprouting and the structure of ‘except’-phrases” at the upcoming 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50) at…

Category: General, Graduate Students, Publications

Minqi Liu’s Summer Events

Published: September 27, 2019

This past Summer, Minqi Liu attended the third Crete Summer School of Linguistics, (CreteLing 2019), at the University of Crete. She also presented a joint work with Nina Hyams and…

Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Jeremy Steffman published two journal papers at JASA

Published: September 26, 2019

Jeremy Steffman (4th year PhD candidate) published two papers at the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), one by himself and the other with Sun-Ah Jun. Congratulations!!! Below…

Category: Conferences

UCLA at Sinn und Bedeutung 24

Published: September 24, 2019

UCLA was represented well at Germany’s 24th Sinn und Bedeutung conference for semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. Graduate student Maayan Abenina-Adar gave a talk entitled ‘Interesting interrogatives,’ and…

Category: Faculty

Jessica Rett selected as the LSA’s September 2019 Member Spotlight

Published: September 10, 2019

“[T]he future [of linguistics] is dynamic and diversifying.” Professor Jessica Rett was selected as the Member Spotlight in the Linguistic Society of America’s September newsletter. Congratulations to Professor Rett, someone…

Category: Alumni

Heather Burnett awarded ERC Starting Grant

Published: September 4, 2019

Congratulations to Heather Burnett (PhD 2012) for winning a very prestigious Starting Grant from the ERC (European Research Council). This is awesome! Heather is featured in the following link (scroll…

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Jessica Rett is receiving the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award

Congratulations to Nikolaos Angelopoulos for Receiving his PhD!

On October 14/15 2019, 3 generations of UCLA alumni met up at a workshop of the LACA (Language Abilities in Children with Autism) network in Patras, Greece.

Nina Hyams to be named as an LSA Fellow!

Richard Stockwell and Deborah Wong to Present at the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society

Minqi Liu’s Summer Events

Jeremy Steffman published two journal papers at JASA

UCLA at Sinn und Bedeutung 24

Jessica Rett selected as the LSA’s September 2019 Member Spotlight

Heather Burnett awarded ERC Starting Grant

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