News

December 15, 2016
Our honorees include Catherine Browman, Fidelia Fielding, Mary Haas (PhD ’35), Osvaldo Jaeggli (BA ’76), Edward Sapir, and Kay Williamson (PhD ’64).
December 8, 2016
The paper is titled ”Covert pied-piping in English multiple wh-questions.”
December 7, 2016
Their paper, ”Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems,” was also featured in this week’s YaleNews.
October 22, 2016
As previously reported, the Yale linguistics department sent two teams to the 5th Annual New Haven Reads Spelling Bee, held last night at the Yale School of Management.
October 20, 2016
Their talk, titled “Against phonetic realism as the source of root co-occurrence restrictions,” presents an acoustic analysis of data drawn from a spoken corpus of Kaqchikel.
October 19, 2016
The event, a fundraiser for New Haven Reads, is 7-9pm (doors open at 6) on Friday, October 21, at the Yale School of Management.
October 18, 2016
Yao-Ying will deliver a talk about neurocognitive properties of for-adverbs, and Andy will present a poster about the locative and possessive meanings of English have.