Raffaella Zanuttini delivered the annual Freeman Lecture at the University of Massachusetts on April 1, 2016. This invited talk, hosted by the UMass Department of Linguistics, commemorates the founder of the department, Donald C. Freeman, and brings prominent linguists to speak on linguistic topics of interest to the wider public.
A number of Yale linguists presented at PLC 40, the Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania:
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett and colleagues Jessica Coon (McGill) and Robert Henderson (Arizona) have published an article titled “Introduction to Mayan Linguistics” in Language and Linguistics Compass. The article is available online now, and is part of a special issue of L&LC.
Associate Professor Claire Bowern and her Pama-Nyungan Lab have completed the first phase release of CHIRILA (Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia), a lexical and morphological database. The name CHIRILA is based on the word tyirilya, a widespread term for ‘echidna’ in
His dissertation, Forming wh-questions in Shona: A comparative Bantu perspective, examines the derivational relationships among the several types of wh-questions in Shona.
Several Yale linguistics faculty, students, and alumni presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA).
Three Yale linguistics graduate students will present their research at SYNC 2015, an annual mini-conference among the linguistics departments at SUNY-Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Members of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project (YGDP) have published an article in the journal American Speech titled, “The Southern dative presentative meets Mechanical Turk.” The article explores a unqiue syntactic structure found in some dialects of English, and was co-authored by Yale linguistics lecturer Jim Wood, professor emeritus
Earlier this month Professor Steve Anderson gave a public lecture titled “The Place of Human Language in the Animal World“ to inaugurate the new “Language and Communication” Research Network at the University of Geneva.
Associate Professor Claire Bowern will be giving a plenary at the workshop Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, which will be held October 26-30, 2015, at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Netherlands.
