Rikker Dockum receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Graduate student Rikker Dockum has been awarded a three-year fellowship by the National Science Foundation through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Graduate student Rikker Dockum has been awarded a three-year fellowship by the National Science Foundation through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Claire Bowern, who has been elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
Graduate students Josh Phillips and Rikker Dockum represented the department at SYNC 2014, the annual linguistics conference that brings together graduate students from SUNY Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, and the CUNY Graduate Center. It was held at Stony Brook on December 6th.
The profile focuses on Jason’s work on wh-questions in Bantu languages.
The award is part of a collaborative NSF grant with linguists at UC Santa Cruz.
Welcome to Faruk Akkuʂ (Boğaziçi ’12, ’14), Parker Brody (Kentucky ’08, ’14), Martin Fuchs (Buenos Aires ’13), Chris Geissler (Swarthmore ’13), and Josh Phillips (UNSW ’11)!
ABC Goldfields runs a story on Andy Zhang’s fieldwork on Tjupan, an extension of his work in the Yale Linguistics Grammar Group.
Congrats to Emily, who will be Visiting Assistant Professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College this fall!