Conferences & Presentations
Veneeta Dayal to give virtual talk for Central Institute for Indian Languages
Veneeta Dayal will give an invited talk via zoom on “The semantics of (in)definite articles and languages without (in)definite articles” in the Foundation Day Lectures at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, India.
Yale linguists publish in PLC proceedings
Five papers were published by Yale linguists in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference:
Samuel Andersson: Abkhaz Stress as a Segmental Property
Joseph Class: Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque
Catarina Soares and Jim Wood: Locative Causatives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations
Claire Bowern gives talks on the Voynich Manuscript
Claire Bowern recently gave two talks on recent linguistic work on the Voynich Manuscript, an early cipher manuscript held at Yale’s Beinecke Library. The talks covered basic material about the manuscript, as well as ways that linguistics can be used in decipherment. Both talks are now available online: talk at Beinecke; talk as Alumni association lecture.
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk in Germany
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on The Cross-linguistic Expression of Definiteness: Demonstratives, Definites and Bare Nouns at the Cologne Center for Language Sciences, Germany on June 21, 2021.
Jim Wood gave an invited talk on nominalizations
Jim Wood gave an invited talk at JENom 9 “The 9th Workshop on Nominalizations,” which was held online June 17–18. This workshop brought together a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies on nominalizations, and focused on a number languages including English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Basque, Old English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Kwa languages.
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on definiteness
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on The Cross-linguistic Expression of Definiteness: Demonstratives, Definites and Bare Nouns at Tsinghua University, China on June 3, 2021.
Jason Shaw gave an invited talk at LMU Munich
Jason Shaw gave an invited talk at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. The talk, entitled “Tone as gesture: space, time, perception and change” featured recent work in the Yale phonetics lab on lexical tone, including graduate student projects by Chris Geissler and Andy Zhang. The talk was a part of LMU’s MAMPF (Methods and approaches of modern phonetic research) series (link to talk series). Link to abstract.
Veneeta Dayal gives a talk at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group
Veneeta Dayal gave a talk on April 26th at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay).