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.”
Postdocs & Lecturers
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.
