Measured Language volume includes chapter by Emily Gasser
Her chapter is titled “Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba.”
Linguistic Variation
Proceedings of Phonology 2013 includes papers by three Yale linguists
Papers by Gaja Jarosz, Claire Bowern, and Emily Gasser are now available online in this new open access conference proceedings.
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.
Sabina Matyiku presents paper at WCCFL 32
Her talk was titled “Semantic effects of head movement in Negative Auxiliary Inversion constructions.”
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
This Saturday: SYNC 2013
SYNC 2013 will be held this Saturday, 12/7, in room 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center.
Lingua publishes paper by Jim Wood
The paper investigates the syntax of English verbal “rather,” noting its similarity to parasitic participle constructions found elsewhere in Germanic.
Yale linguists presenting at NELS
The conference, held this weekend at UConn, will feature a talk by Jim Wood and posters by Claire Bowern, Erich Round, and Raffaella Zanuttini.
Claire Bowern publishes paper in the Journal of Language Contact
Her paper, “Relatedness as a factor in language contact,” considers several aspects of language change and ways in which contact might interact with language relatedness.
Yale Linguistics welcomes four new graduate students
We are delighted to have Rikker Dockum (Dartmouth ’07), Luke Lindemann (Pomona ’09), Patrick Patterson (Kansas ’13), and Matt Tyler (Cambridge ’13) join our department.
