News

Yale Linguistics hosting FASAL 5 next month
February 28, 2015
The fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5) will take place April 11-12.
Raffaella Zanuttini publishes op-ed on language change
February 22, 2015
The article discusses language change as something that should be celebrated rather than feared.
Proceedings of SSMCA workshop published online
February 5, 2015
We are pleased to announce the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA). The workshop was hosted by our department last spring.
Paper by Ashwini Deo appears in Annual Review of Linguistics
January 26, 2015
Ashwini’s paper on diachronic semantics is included in the inaugural volume of the Annual Review of Linguistics.
Claire Bowern elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund
January 24, 2015
Congratulations to Associate Professor Claire Bowern, who has been elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.
Springer publishes Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure by Jim Wood
January 16, 2015
The book gives an overview of argument structure alternations in Icelandic.
Kate Davidson publishes paper with Rachel Mayberry in Language Acquisition
January 8, 2015
The paper examines the language performance of deaf adults who were not exposed to a sign language until later in life.

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