Awards & Grants
Alysia Harris receives Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize
Congratulations, Alysia!
Ryan Bennett receives NSF grant to study Irish Gaelic palatalization
The award is part of a collaborative NSF grant with linguists at UC Santa Cruz.
Jason Zentz receives LSA Student Abstract Award
Jason will receive the 1st place award out of all abstracts submitted by students to present at the annual LSA meeting.
Claire Bowern receives NSF grant to study language and prehistory of Australia
The three-year grant, titled “Language as a Window on Prehistory,” will support the work of the historical linguistics lab at Yale.
NSF grant awarded to Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini
The three-year grant, titled “The Morphosyntax of Pronouns in North American English,” will support the work of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.
Andy Zhang heads to Australia for fieldwork
He will spend the summer working to document Tjupan, a highly endangered Wati langauge.
Amalia Skilton receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
After graduating last May, Amalia has spent this academic year doing fieldwork on Máíhɨ̃ki in Peru. In the fall she will continue this research at UC Berkeley.
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
2014 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award goes to Steve Anderson
Congratulations, Steve!