Yale holds workshop on sluicing
Postdoc Matt Barros, Lecturer Hadas Kotek, and Professor Bob Frank organized a workshop on sluicing.
Departmental Talks
Honoring Stephen Anderson
The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson.
Graduate students present qualifying papers
Throughout the month of April, Yale linguistics graduate students presented their qualifying papers in a series of Friday Lunch Talks.
Graduate students to present at Qualifying Paper Symposia
[Updated April 18, 2016]
On two Fridays, April 15 and April 22, Yale linguistics graduate students in their second and third years will give talks based on their qualifying papers. These papers, one of which is required in each of the second and third years and which cover two different areas of linguistics, represent significant original research culminating in a work of publishable quality.
Jason Zentz defends dissertation
His dissertation, Forming wh-questions in Shona: A comparative Bantu perspective, examines the derivational relationships among the several types of wh-questions in Shona.
Second annual "grammar boot camp" for advanced undergraduates accepting applications
The Department of Linguistics is happy to announce that Claire Bowern and the Historical and Pama-Nyungan Lab will be hosting a second annual ‘grammar boot camp’ in July 2016. Over the course of four weeks, participants will work collaboratively to produce a sketch grammar of an Australian Aboriginal language, using an extensive database of field notes and recordings.
Yale Linguistics to host workshop honoring Laurence R. Horn
“Hornucopia: A workshop honoring Laurence R. Horn” will take place November 6-7, 2015, at Sterling Memorial Library.
Yale Linguistics hosting FASAL 5 this weekend
The fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5) takes place this weekend, April 11-12.
Yale Linguistics hosting PhoNE
Phonology in the Northeast will take place Saturday, April 4th.
Yale Linguistics hosting FASAL 5 next month
The fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5) will take place April 11-12.
