Grad Students

Sammy Andersson receives the 2023 Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize Award for Student Excellence in Phonology

Our very own Sammy Andersson is the recipient of the 2023 Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize Award for Student Excellence in Phonology from the Linguistic Society of America!

The LSA Committee of Phonologists reported that they took into consideration the originality, breadth, and productivity of research in phonology of each nominated candidate. Their decision to award Samuel Andersson this year was unanimous.

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares present their work on Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares their paper “Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations” in Palermo, Italy, on May 26th.

Chirila HistLing Lab presents at LSA

Yale linguists present at LSA Annual Meeting

Michael Stern publishes in Brain Sciences

Michael Stern published a paper with co-authors LeeAnn Stover (CUNY Graduate Center), Ernesto Guerra (University of Chile), and Gita Martohardjono (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled “Syntactic and Semantic Influences on the Time Course of Relative Clause Processing: The Role of Language Dominance”.

Yale linguists publish in PLC proceedings

Five papers were published by Yale linguists in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference:

Samuel Andersson: Abkhaz Stress as a Segmental Property

Joseph Class: Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque

Catarina Soares and Jim Wood: Locative Causatives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations

Kullilli Language Work Featured in News Article

Claire Bowern and lab members (including Juhyae Kim and Sam Lopez) have been working with Toby Adams and Kullilli community members of language support. They have been writing language lessons and working on the Kullilli dictionary. This work was recently featured in an article written by Maddelin McCosker for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news.

Yale Linguists Present at WCCFL

Three presentations were given by Yale linguists at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL).

Samuel Andersson publishes paper on Abkhaz

Sigríður Sæunn publishes a paper in Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði [Icelandic language and general linguistics]

Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir published a paper entitled, “’Haf góðan dag’ Um uppkomu nýrrar kveðju út frá hugmyndum um talgjörðir” [‘Have a nice day’ The emergence of a new leave-taking term in Icelandic in the light of Speech Act Theory] in Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði 41.-42. The paper is on the leave-taking term Hafðu góðan dag (‘Have a nice day (ACC)’), which has become prominent in Modern Icelandic but has been prescriptively deemed “improper Icelandic” due to its being influenced by English Have

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