Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson in Göttingen for Sinn und Bedeutung
Ashwini’s keynote address is on grammaticalization paths, and Kate is co-presenting a paper on attitude predicates and role shift in ASL.
Historical Linguistics
Claire Bowern receives NSF grant to study language and prehistory of Australia
The three-year grant, titled “Language as a Window on Prehistory,” will support the work of the historical linguistics lab at Yale.
Hannah Haynie publishes article in Language and Linguistics Compass
The paper is titled “Geography and spatial analysis in historical linguistics.”
Yale Linguistics welcomes five new graduate students
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)!
Yale linguists contribute to The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Claire Bowern co-edited the volume, and Steve Anderson and Ashwini Deo provided chapters on morphological and semantic/pragmatic change, respectively.
PLOS ONE publishes sound symbolism paper by Haynie, Bowern, and LaPalombara
They perform statistical analyses of sound-meaning correspondences in 120 languages of Australia.
Measured Language volume includes chapter by Emily Gasser
Her chapter is titled “Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba.”
Amalia Skilton receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
After graduating last May, Amalia has spent this academic year doing fieldwork on Máíhɨ̃ki in Peru. In the fall she will continue this research at UC Berkeley.
This Weekend: Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA)
We look forward to welcoming an international group of linguists to Yale to discuss the phonetics and phonology of indigenous languages spoken in Mexico and Central America.
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
