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The Department of LinguisticsThe Old World Conference on Phonology was held in Düsseldorf at the end of February, 2017. Kie Zuraw gave an invited talk, “The Breadth of the Candidate Set,” and Isabelle…
Read MoreThis month, Hilda Koopman will teach a mini-course at NYU on the interfaces of syntax and phonology and syntax and semantics.
Read MoreThis year’s Going Romance (GR30) was held in Frankfurt, Germany from December 7th through December 10th. Representing UCLA were Nikos Angelopoulos and Dominique Sportiche with a talk entitled: “Reconstructing Scrambling…
Read MoreJeff Heinz, a 2007 Ph.D. graduate of our program and now Professor of Linguistics at the University of Delaware, was awarded the LSA’s Early Career Award at January’s LSA Annual…
Read MoreThe department was well-represented at the Fall meeting of the ASA in Honolulu the week of Nov. 28 2016. Current and former department members (PhDs, postdocs, faculty, undergrads, visitors) attending…
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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Russell Schuh passed away on November 8, 2016. Russ was a beloved colleague and outstanding member of our department in teaching, research, and service. He was…
Read MoreNELS47 (North East Linguistics Society) met at UMASS Amherst this October. UCLA was well represented: Richard Stockwell gave a talk entitled “VP ellipsis with symmetrical predicates” Jesse Zymet with co-author…
Read MoreUCLA Linguistics was well-represented at this year’s Annual Meeting on Phonology at the University of Southern California. Invited talk: Bruce Hayes: Varieties of Noisy Harmonic Grammar Talk: Adam Chong: Examining…
Read MoreTwo UCLA linguistics grads presented at CUSP 9 (California Semantics and Pragmatics) that took place between Oct. 21 and 22 at UC Santa Cruz. The titles of the talks were:…
Read MoreThe department was well-represented at the Conference on Laboratory Phonology held at Cornell in July 2016, co-organized by Cornell professor Abby Cohn (PhD 1990). Current and former department members (PhDs,…
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