Yale linguists at the LSA
Sixteen presentations and posters from current and former Yale faculty and students were showcased at the annual meeting of the LSA.
Sixteen presentations and posters from current and former Yale faculty and students were showcased at the annual meeting of the LSA.
At a workshop honoring Liliane Haegeman, Raffaella discussed her research on presentatives.
Bob Frank visited the University of Leipzig to attend a dissertation defense and speak about sluicing.
Graduate students from Stony Brook University, NYU, and CUNY came to Yale University’s main campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Jim Wood, Matt Barros, and Matt Tyler presented two talks and a poster.
Jim presented an analysis of extended benefactives, part of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project’s ongoing research on morphosyntactic microvariation.
Raffaella spoke about joint work with Jim Wood on the syntactic structure of presentatives.
Results on TAG parsing and finite-state Optimality Theory were presented at TAG+, FSMNLP, and EMNLP.
We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!
Assistant Professor Jim Wood published a paper in the journal Syntax and co-authored a chapter in the book Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.