Morphology

On Friday, April 5th, Jim Wood spoke at the 2nd Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST), organized by Byron Ahn and Laura Kalin. The theme for the meeting is “counterexamples”. Jim Wood’s talk, entitled “Prepositions, Nominalization and Allosemy,” connects with this theme through the lens of his recent research on Icelandic deverbal event nouns, and what such nouns tell us about the interaction between syntax and lexical meaning.

Many members of the Yale linguistics department made a mass exodus to the the recent LSA annual meeting in New York City, where they gave 19 oral and poster presentations at the main meeting, workshops, and sister society meetings. These included:

The translations make available some of the earliest writings on the theory of word formation.

The two graduate students spoke about syntax in Choctaw and prosody in Southern East Cree, respectively.

Sixteen presentations and posters from current and former Yale faculty and students were showcased at the annual meeting of the LSA.

We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!

Ph.D. candidate Rikker Dockum presented research on the Tai Khamti language at the 2017 meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS).

A chapter by Assistant Professor Jim Wood, co-authored with Professor Alec Marantz of New York University, has been published in a book entitled The Verbal Domain.

The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson.

Throughout the month of April, Yale linguistics graduate students presented their qualifying papers in a series of Friday Lunch Talks.

His talk was titled "Double marking in Tai Khamti: Reanalysis and reinforcement."

He provides an overview of Mayan phonology and, together with Jessica Coon and Robert Henderson, an introduction to Mayan linguistics.

Several current and former members of our department will be taking part in the annual meeting of the LSA and its sister societies, held this year in Austin, TX.

We are delighted to have Sarah Babinski (Swarthmore ’16), Yiding Hao (UChicago ’15), Dan Schwennicke (Oxford ’16), and Andy Zhang (Yale ’15) join our department.

[Updated April 18, 2016]

On two Fridays, April 15 and April 22, Yale linguistics graduate students in their second and third years will give talks based on their qualifying papers. These papers, one of which is required in each of the second and third years and which cover two different areas of linguistics, represent significant original research culminating in a work of publishable quality.