Article by Tim Hunter and Bob Frank appears in Linguistic Inquiry
Their paper is titled “Eliminating rightward movement: Extraposition as flexible linearization of adjuncts.”
Postdocs & Lecturers
Ben George accepts tenure-track position at Carnegie Mellon
He will be assistant professor of philosophy beginning in August.
Jim Wood publishes chapter in OUP book on imposters
The chapter, coauthored with Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, is titled “Icelandic verbal agreement and pronoun-antecedent relations.”
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
Ben George publishes article in Natural Language Semantics
His paper is titled “Which judgments show weak exhaustivity? (And which don’t?).”
TopiCS publishes commentary by Tamás Biró
The essay argues that cognitive and computational approaches have a role to play in the study of culture.
Lingua publishes paper by Jim Wood
The paper investigates the syntax of English verbal “rather,” noting its similarity to parasitic participle constructions found elsewhere in Germanic.
Kate Davidson publishes paper in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Kate, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler argue that the spoken English development of children with cochlear implants is not impaired by exposure to sign language.
Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson to speak at Workshop on Semantic Variation
The workshop will be held at UChicago on October 25-26.
Yale linguists presenting at NELS
The conference, held this weekend at UConn, will feature a talk by Jim Wood and posters by Claire Bowern, Erich Round, and Raffaella Zanuttini.
Welcome to Hugo Istomin-Wood!
He was born September 25 to Jim Wood and Julia Istomina. Congratulations!
Introducing Kate Davidson
Kate is a postdoc in cognitive science who investigates the semantics/pragmatics interface and language acquisition through experimental work with sign languages.
Welcome to Tamás Biró
This fall he is teaching Phonology I and Facets of Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics. In the spring, he will teach Language and Computation and a computational OT seminar.
Kayne, Zanuttini, and Leu produce An Annotated Syntax Reader
The collection features excerpts from 35 seminal papers in generative syntax, providing background and questions for future research.
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project featured in Yale Alumni Magazine cover story
Positive anymore, drama so, needs washed, multiple modals, and negative concord are among the phenomena highlighted.
Dennis Storoshenko Presenting at the CLA
Lecturer Dennis Ryan Storoshenko will be presenting work related to the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project this week in Victoria, Canada.
Yale Linguists Traveling to Iceland
Sabina Matyiku, Jim Wood, and Raffaella Zanuttini are traveling to the University of Iceland this week to present their papers at the 25th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics.
Jim Wood paper published in Nordic Journal of Linguistics
A paper by Jim Wood, with co-author Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Case alternations in Icelandic ‘get’-passives, appears in the most recent issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
Jim Wood presents at PLC
Postdoc Jim Wood recently traveled to UPenn to present the paper Icelandic deverbal adjectives and case-alternations, on which Einar Freyr Sigurðsson is his co-author.
Jim Wood presenting at WCCFL this week
This week, Jim Wood will be presenting at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics held at the Arizona State University.
Yale Linguists in Language
Two of Yale’s linguists have papers in the most recent issue of Language, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Claire Bowern’s work (with co-author Quentin Atkinson) uses Bayesian inference to propose divisions within the Pama-Nyungan language family of Australia, while Dennis Ryan Storoshenko (with co-author Chung-hye Han) argues for a novel account of the Korean anaphor caki, which has a 30-year history of conflicting analyses in the literature.
