Yale linguists to compete in New Haven Reads Spelling Bee
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.
Postdocs & Lecturers
Hadas Kotek and collaborators publish article in Brain Research
The paper examines whether classroom second-language instruction results in improvement in Japanese vowel duration contrast discrimination.
Yale linguists present at NELS 47
Tomorrow, lecturer Hadas Kotek is giving a talk, undergraduate alumna Maria Kouneli is presenting a paper, and former faculty member Gaja Jarosz is delivering a plenary talk.
Hadas Kotek publishes article in first issue of Glossa
Her paper is titled “Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations.”
A busy summer for Yale linguists
Members of our department traveled all over the world for summer institutes, conferences, and fieldwork, and we hosted several visiting undergraduate researchers on campus.
Hadas Kotek untangles Tanglewood at Sinn und Bedeutung and MIT Exhaustivity Workshop
Both presentations represent joint work with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (NUS) and are titled ”Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement.”
Introducing Hadas Kotek
This year, Hadas will be teaching Semantics I & II, a seminar on questions and focus, and a freshman seminar. Her work focuses on the semantics/pragmatics interface.
Matt Tyler, Jim Wood, Faruk Akkuş present at WCCFL
Three Yale linguists presented at the West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL34), held at the University of Utah on April 29-May 1, 2016. Graduate student Matt Tyler and postdoctoral associate Jim Wood delivered a joint presentation, “The ‘Have Yet To’ construction: a micro-comparative acco
Yale linguists present at PLC, PhoNE
A number of Yale linguists presented at PLC 40, the Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania:
Ryan Bennett to present invited talks at WSCLA, SSMCA; Ryan Kasak to present at WSCLA
Ryan Bennett will present work on Kaqchikel phonetics and phonology. Ryan Kasak is presenting on Siouan templatic morphology.
Yale linguists present at 2016 LSA Annual Meeting
Several Yale linguistics faculty, students, and alumni presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA).
YGDP publishes article on "Southern dative presentative"
Members of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project (YGDP) have published an article in the journal American Speech titled, “The Southern dative presentative meets Mechanical Turk.” The article explores a unqiue syntactic structure found in some dialects of English, and was co-authored by Yale linguistics lecturer Jim Wood, professor emeritus
Ryan Bennett gives plenary talk and Claire Moore-Cantwell presents at AMP 2015
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett was an invited plenary speaker at the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2015), held October 9-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Also presenting from our department was lecturer Claire Moore-Cantwell.
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project featured in Boston Globe, Columbus Dispatch, and Slate
YGDP was featured in articles in the Boston Globe, the Columbus Dispatch, and on Slate’s Lexicon Valley blog.
Springer publishes Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure by Jim Wood
The book gives an overview of argument structure alternations in Icelandic.
Kate Davidson publishes paper with Rachel Mayberry in Language Acquisition
The paper examines the language performance of deaf adults who were not exposed to a sign language until later in life.
Yale linguists present at 2015 LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
Jim Wood publishes paper in NLLT
The article, titled “Reflexive -st verbs in Icelandic”, appears in the latest issue of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
Yale linguists presenting at NELS 45
The conference will feature two talks by Kate Davidson, a talk by Jim Wood, and a poster by Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini.
Hannah Haynie to deliver homecoming linguistics lecture at Dartmouth College
The lecture, titled “Sound Symbolism in Australian Languages: Phonetic Iconicity Re-examined,” will be given at the Dartmouth College Linguistics Department on Thursday, October 16th.
Yale linguists to present at Day of Data conference
The conference, which features talks and posters on issues in data science, will be held September 26th.
Jim Wood invited to speak at Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
His talk is titled “Contextual Allosemy: Modal Passives and the Syntax-Semantics Interface.”
Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson in Göttingen for Sinn und Bedeutung
Ashwini’s keynote address is on grammaticalization paths, and Kate is co-presenting a paper on attitude predicates and role shift in ASL.
WCCFL 31 Proceedings includes paper by Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson
The paper is titled “‘Get’-passives and case alternations: The view from Icelandic.”
Hannah Haynie publishes article in Language and Linguistics Compass
The paper is titled “Geography and spatial analysis in historical linguistics.”
NSF grant awarded to Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini
The three-year grant, titled “The Morphosyntax of Pronouns in North American English,” will support the work of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.
Paper by Jim Wood and Halldór Sigurðsson appears in Syntax
The paper investigates the distinction between symmetric and asymmetric dative-nominative verbs in Icelandic by examining their behavior when embedded under láta ‘let/make’.
OUP publishes Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English
Edited by Raffaella Zanuttini and Larry Horn, the volume includes a chapter by Jim Wood and one by Raffaella Zanuttini and Judy Bernstein.
Kate Davidson invited to speak at SULA 8 in Vancouver
The conference focuses on the semantics of underrepresented languages of the Americas.
PLOS ONE publishes sound symbolism paper by Haynie, Bowern, and LaPalombara
They perform statistical analyses of sound-meaning correspondences in 120 languages of Australia.
