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The Department of LinguisticsHaving successfully defended his dissertation, Jesse Zymet will be heading to UC Berkeley as a lecturer in phonology this fall. Congratulations, Jesse!
Read MoreAlumnus Neda Vesselinova (MA, 2018) will soon start a job as an Associate Linguist for Google in Mountain View. Congratulations, Neda!
Read MoreAlumnus Jos Tellings (PhD 2016) will begin a 3-year post-doctoral research position at Utrecht University for the project Time in Translation, led by Bert Le Bruyn and Henriette de Swart. The project will focus on the semantics of the perfect across languages.
Read MoreThe Department is advertising two full time lecturer positions beginning Fall 2018; Application Deadline: 17-June-2018 Direct links for Applications: Phonetics, Phonology and General Linguistics: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03731 Applied Linguistics and Linguistics: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03710
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics is proud to announce two lectures highlighting ASL during the 2018 Friends of Linguistics event. A reception will follow. For more information, please see this flyer. Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:00 PM Understanding the Deaf World by Benjamin Lewis Lecturer in American Sign Language, UCLA 5:45 PM The Emergence of…
Read MoreThere were three UCLA presentations at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28, held on May 18-20, 2018, at MIT. Ellipsis in tautologous conditionals (Richard Stockwell) Sloppy binding into relative superlative descriptions (Dylan Bumford) Domain uniformity in questions (Maayan Abenina-Adar and Yael Sharvit) Congratulations to Richard, Maayan, Dylan, and Yael!
Read MoreThe Department is advertising two 2-year teaching positions beginning Fall 2018; the deadline for applications is May 28. Click here for information about the positions and how to apply Direct links for Applications: Phonetics, Phonology and General Linguistics: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03680 Syntax, Semantics and General Linguistics: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03679 Application Deadline: 28-May-2018
Read MoreMargit will start work as a postdoctoral research associate on a five year project “The lexical semantics of lexical categories” (PI, Andrew Koontz-Garboden), funded by the European Research Council Consolidator Project. The goal is to elucidate through the study of property concept lexemes (see Dixon 1982, Thompson 1989) and constructions in which they appear, the meaning…
Read MoreAlumna Niki Acker (nee Foster, PhD 2016) will start work this month as a Linguistic Project Manager at Google. Congrats, Niki!
Read MoreTwo talks from the UCLA Language Processing Lab will be presented at the 54th Chicago Linguistic Society, April 26-28, 2018. Graduate student Marju Kaps will present her MA thesis research in a talk titled “Licensing SOV in Estonian: A naturalness rating study.” Jesse Harris will present research with PhD graduate Natasha Korotkova (Konstanz, Tuebingen) in a talk…
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