Honoring Stephen Anderson
The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson.
Historical Linguistics
Graduate students present qualifying papers
Throughout the month of April, Yale linguistics graduate students presented their qualifying papers in a series of Friday Lunch Talks.
Rikker Dockum travels to Zürich for Diachronic Morphology workshop
His talk was titled "Double marking in Tai Khamti: Reanalysis and reinforcement."
Graduate students showcase their research at fall venues
Rashad Ullah, Martín Fuchs, Josh Phillips, Andy Zhang, Dan Schwennicke, Yiding Hao, and Rikker Dockum presented their work at four different conferences and workshops.
Hannah Haynie and Claire Bowern publish article in PNAS
Their paper, ”Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems,” was also featured in this week’s YaleNews.
Martín Fuchs and Sara Sánchez participate in the 2016 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Their presentations report on experiments conducted through the Yale Language & Brain Lab.
Claire Bowern's research featured in Nature and Science
She is one of several authors on an article in Nature about the genomic history of Aboriginal Australia, and her contributions to that paper were profiled in Science.
A busy summer for Yale linguists
Members of our department traveled all over the world for summer institutes, conferences, and fieldwork, and we hosted several visiting undergraduate researchers on campus.
Sean Gleason delivers talk at SLE 2016
His paper provides an analysis of certain impersonal and personal passive constructions in Latin without having to appeal to syntactic Case.
Rikker Dockum presents at SEALS 26 and an Austroasiatic workshop
One talk discussed computational modeling of Khamti tone, and the other examines how syntactic borrowing may explain similarities between Khmer and Thai numeral classifiers.
