News

Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson in Göttingen for Sinn und Bedeutung
September 15, 2014
Ashwini’s keynote address is on grammaticalization paths, and Kate is co-presenting a paper on attitude predicates and role shift in ASL.
Claire Bowern receives NSF grant to study language and prehistory of Australia
September 12, 2014
The three-year grant, titled “Language as a Window on Prehistory,” will support the work of the historical linguistics lab at Yale.
WCCFL 31 Proceedings includes paper by Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson
September 3, 2014
The paper is titled “‘Get’-passives and case alternations: The view from Icelandic.”
Hannah Haynie publishes article in Language and Linguistics Compass
August 28, 2014
The paper is titled “Geography and spatial analysis in historical linguistics.”
NSF grant awarded to Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini
August 27, 2014
The three-year grant, titled “The Morphosyntax of Pronouns in North American English,” will support the work of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.
Yale Linguistics welcomes five new graduate students
August 25, 2014
Welcome to Faruk Akkuʂ (Boğaziçi ’12, ’14), Parker Brody (Kentucky ’08, ’14), Martin Fuchs (Buenos Aires ’13), Chris Geissler (Swarthmore ’13), and Josh Phillips (UNSW ’11)!
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Paper by Jim Wood and Halldór Sigurðsson appears in Syntax
August 21, 2014
The paper investigates the distinction between symmetric and asymmetric dative-nominative verbs in Icelandic by examining their behavior when embedded under láta ‘let/make’.

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