Parker Brody has published an article in the most recent issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics. “Morphological exceptionality and pathways of change” explores the notion of analyzing cross-linguistically uncommon morphosyntactic structures in terms of their historical development. What may seem extraordinary in the synchronic snapshot of a language can often be clearly accounted for through diachronic considerations.
The Yale linguistics department is well-represented at the coming Annual Meeting of the LSA, January 2-5, 2020 in New Orleans. But apart from the many current members of the department who will be attending, we are also hoping to connect with previous department members. A meet-up will be organized, with more information below:
On December 10, Claire Bowern led a discussion in the Yale Archaia program’s series on ancient worlds. Members of the linguistics department (Claire, along with Sarah Babinski and Chris Geissler) talked about the concepts of “Deep History” and how this broad view of history is based not simply on text but is centered around other ways of discovering the past.
On December 10, Claire Bowern led a discussion in the Yale Archaia program’s series on ancient worlds. Members of the linguistics department (Claire, along with Sarah Babinski and Chris Geissler) talked about the concepts of “Deep History” and how this broad view of history is based not simply on text but is centered around other ways of discovering the past.
Tributes from the memorial service held in April 2019 for our colleague, Stanley Insler, have now been posted to the American Oriental Society website. These include tributes by Yale Linguistics alumi Stephanie Jamison (PhD 1977) and Joshua Katz (BA 1991).
At the 50th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society at MIT, PhD candidate Josh Phillips presented some of his work on privatives in Australian languages. Josh’s poster, entitled ““Privative case” : displacement & renewal in the negative domain”, discusses forms with a meaning like ‘without’ or ‘-less’ in several Australian languages.
Seven Yale linguists presented six posters and two invited talks, highlighting their own research as well as projects from CLAY.
This past weekend (June 21-23), the 5th Workshop on Sound Change (WSC 5) took place at UC Davis. Yale Linguistics was represented by Professor Claire Bowern, PhD candidate Rikker Dockum, and graduate student Sarah Babinski, who all presented at the workshop. Claire Bowern gave a talk entitled “Language, Culture, and Australian Exceptionalism,” while Rikker and Sarah gave posters.
PhD candidate Martín Fuchs has won a student award for his presentations at the 32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held at Boulder, Colorado this past March 29-31, 2019.
