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The Department of LinguisticsSemantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27 will take place at the University of Maryland this year, and will include two UCLA alumni: Isabelle Charnavel (UCLA 2012) will present a poster…
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Dylan Bumford (NYU, 2017) has accepted our offer, and will join our semantics faculty in the Fall of 2017. Dylan’s research is on the…
Read MoreGLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) is taking place this(starting Wednesday) at Leiden University. Here is a list of UCLA students and alumni who will present their work: Maayan Abenina-Adar and…
Read MoreThe 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…
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