Congratulations to the Class of 2014!
Four doctoral students and twelve undergraduates received degrees from the Department of Linguistics this year. The Department would like to congratulate them on their accomplishments and their plans for the future.
- Lauren Eby Clemens, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Canada working with Lisa Travis and Jessica Coon on a SSHRC-funded ergativity project.
- Laura Grestenberger, Ph.D., will be joining the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Concordia University in Montreal as an assistant professor in historical linguistics.
- Louis Liu, Ph.D., will be a College Fellow in the Harvard University Department of Linguistics, where he will teach Syntax courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
- Gregory Scontras, Ph.D., will be a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, working with Noah Goodman in the Computation & Cognition Lab.
- Katryna Cadle, A.B.
- Sharon Carlson, A.B.
- Paul Castrigano, A.B.
- Martin Cseh, A.B.
- Miriam Farkas, A.B.
- Michael Goncalves, A.B.
- James Hamilton, A.B.
- Nicholas Longenbaugh, A.B.
- Christine Maroti, A.B.
- Allison Ray, A.B.
- Preston So, A.B.
- Matthew Williams, A.B.
Left to right: Louis Liu, Lauren Eby Clemens, Andreea Nicolae, Gregory Scontras, Laura Grestenberger.
Congratulations!
Farewell to Departing Visitors
The Department of Linguistics has been fortunate to have the following scholars with us for the 2013-2014 academic year:
- Professor Andres Enrique-Aries (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)
- Professor Takeo Kurafuji (Ritzumeikan University, Japan)
- Professor Ping Liu (South-Central University for Nationalities, China)
- Professor Thi Thuy Hong Pham (Vietnam National University)
- Professor Kazue Takeda (Bunkyo University)
- Manuel Kriz (University of Vienna)
- Giuseppe Ricciardi (IUSS Center for Ne.T.S., Pavia, Italy)
- Shalom Kim of (Northeastern University)
Farewell to all of you, and we wish you the best!
Nicolae to ZAS, Germany
College Fellow Andreea Nicolae (PhD 2013) has joined the Center of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS) as a post-doctoral fellow, and she will be working with Uli Sauerland on an XPrag.de (experimental pragmatics) project entitled "The Strength of Scalar Inferences".
Charnavel Receives NSF Grant
Assistant Professor Isabelle Charnavel has received a three-year NSF grant for her research project titled "Collaborative Research: Typology and Theory of Anaphora". Congratulations, Isabelle!
Conferences in the summer
Yujing Huang presented her work "Explaining phonological variation: a case study of Mandarin tone sandhi" at MfM22 (Manchester Phonology Meeting 22) which took place in Manchester, UK, May 29-31.
(Jelena) Lena Borise presented her work "How to say “no” to a “no”: polarity reversal in English and Russian" at the 11th WoSSP (Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology) that took place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, June 5-6.
