Sarah Babinski presents at Algonquian conference
Sarah traveled to Montreal to speak about stress assignment in Southern East Cree.
Sarah traveled to Montreal to speak about stress assignment in Southern East Cree.
Bob Frank visited the University of Leipzig to attend a dissertation defense and speak about sluicing.
Graduate students from Stony Brook University, NYU, and CUNY came to Yale University’s main campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Rikker talked about how tonal systems change over time, using statistical analysis on a large dataset he compiled to identify a strong phylogenetic signal.
The 2017 Stony Brook–Yale–NYU–CUNY conference will be held at Yale’s Dunham Laboratory.
Jim Wood, Matt Barros, and Matt Tyler presented two talks and a poster.
Scholars from a wide range of institutions and disciplines came to Yale to discuss the cognitive foundations of variation and change in meaning.
Claire spoke about how she applies methods from computational phylogenetics to study the history of the Pama-Nyungan languages.
Jim presented an analysis of extended benefactives, part of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project’s ongoing research on morphosyntactic microvariation.
The lecture is given each year by a Dartmouth alum who is currently engaged in linguistics research or related work.