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.
Postdocs & Lecturers
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.
Article by Tim Hunter and Bob Frank appears in Linguistic Inquiry
Their paper is titled “Eliminating rightward movement: Extraposition as flexible linearization of adjuncts.”
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?).”
