Syntax
Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson in Göttingen for Sinn und Bedeutung
Ashwini’s keynote address is on grammaticalization paths, and Kate is co-presenting a paper on attitude predicates and role shift in ASL.
WCCFL 31 Proceedings includes paper by Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson
The paper is titled “‘Get’-passives and case alternations: The view from Icelandic.”
NSF grant awarded to Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini
The three-year grant, titled “The Morphosyntax of Pronouns in North American English,” will support the work of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.
Yale Linguistics welcomes five new graduate students
Welcome to Faruk Akkuʂ (Boğaziçi ’12, ’14), Parker Brody (Kentucky ’08, ’14), Martin Fuchs (Buenos Aires ’13), Chris Geissler (Swarthmore ’13), and Josh Phillips (UNSW ’11)!
Paper by Jim Wood and Halldór Sigurðsson appears in Syntax
The paper investigates the distinction between symmetric and asymmetric dative-nominative verbs in Icelandic by examining their behavior when embedded under láta ‘let/make’.
OUP publishes Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English
Edited by Raffaella Zanuttini and Larry Horn, the volume includes a chapter by Jim Wood and one by Raffaella Zanuttini and Judy Bernstein.
Commencement 2014
Congratulations to our linguistics degree recipients!
Article by Tim Hunter and Bob Frank appears in Linguistic Inquiry
Their paper is titled “Eliminating rightward movement: Extraposition as flexible linearization of adjuncts.”
Jim Wood publishes chapter in OUP book on imposters
The chapter, coauthored with Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, is titled “Icelandic verbal agreement and pronoun-antecedent relations.”