Bob Frank in Leipzig
Bob Frank visited the University of Leipzig to attend a dissertation defense and speak about sluicing.
Semantics & Pragmatics
Yale hosts annual student conference
Graduate students from Stony Brook University, NYU, and CUNY came to Yale University’s main campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale hosts Meaning in Flux workshop
Scholars from a wide range of institutions and disciplines came to Yale to discuss the cognitive foundations of variation and change in meaning.
Raffaella Zanuttini speaks at CUNY colloquium
Raffaella spoke about joint work with Jim Wood on the syntactic structure of presentatives.
Laurence Horn publishes autobiographical article
The article reflects on Larry’s career by recounting stories of the words he has coined.
Yao-Ying Lai and Maria Piñango win JCHAT award
The award is given to the best paper presented at the annual conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences.
Three new graduate students join Yale
We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!
Jim Wood publishes two papers on Icelandic
Assistant Professor Jim Wood published a paper in the journal Syntax and co-authored a chapter in the book Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.
Yale linguists present at CLS
Assistant Professor Jason Shaw, Postdoc Matt Barros, Lecturer Hadas Kotek, and graduate students Matt Tyler and Josh Phillips presented at CLS 53.
Matt Barros and Hadas Kotek present at GLOW
Postdoc Matt Barros and Lecturer Hadas Kotek presented at the poster session of the Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) conference.
