Yale linguists to present at SYNC 2015
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.
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.
Yale Linguistics Ph.D. candidate Jason Zentz has been published in two conference proceedings papers. His article “Bantu Wh-agreement and the Case against Probe Impoverishment” appears in the Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). The second, “Morphological evidence for a movement analysis of adverbial clauses” is published by the Chicago Linguistics Society.
Steve will present a talk “D’où Venons Nous/Que Sommes Nous/Où Allons Nous. Reflections on the History of Morphology” at MMM10 on September 8.
The fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5) takes place this weekend, April 11-12.
The fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5) will take place April 11-12.
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
The profile focuses on Jason’s work on wh-questions in Bantu languages.
The talk is titled “The prosody of Kaqchikel person marking,” and the poster is titled “A phonetic study of Uspanteko accent.” Both are joint work with Robert Henderson.
The paper is titled “‘Get’-passives and case alternations: The view from Icelandic.”