Yale linguists present at GLOW
Yale linguists delivered two presentations at GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World), held at Georg-August University in Göttingen, the Netherlands from April 5-7, 2016.
Yale linguists delivered two presentations at GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World), held at Georg-August University in Göttingen, the Netherlands from April 5-7, 2016.
Raffaella Zanuttini delivered the annual Freeman Lecture at the University of Massachusetts on April 1, 2016. This invited talk, hosted by the UMass Department of Linguistics, commemorates the founder of the department, Donald C. Freeman, and brings prominent linguists to speak on linguistic topics of interest to the wider public.
A number of Yale linguists presented at PLC 40, the Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania:
Ryan Bennett will present work on Kaqchikel phonetics and phonology. Ryan Kasak is presenting on Siouan templatic morphology.
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett and colleagues Jessica Coon (McGill) and Robert Henderson (Arizona) have published an article titled “Introduction to Mayan Linguistics” in Language and Linguistics Compass. The article is available online now, and is part of a special issue of L&LC.
On December 4, Professor Steve Anderson presented an invited lecture to the Philological Society at Murray-Edwards College in Cambridge (UK), in honor of Prof. Peter Matthews. The lecture was entitled “Words and Paradigms: Peter H. Matthews and the Development of Morphological Theory.” The abstract is as follows:
Associate Professor Ashwini Deo, PhD candidate Rashad Ullah, and grad student Luke Lindemann presented on their research at the sixth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6), held March 12-13 at UMass Amherst.
Associate Professor Claire Bowern and her Pama-Nyungan Lab have completed the first phase release of CHIRILA (Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia), a lexical and morphological database. The name CHIRILA is based on the word tyirilya, a widespread term for ‘echidna’ in
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett presented the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture at Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2016 on Saturday, March 5. The annual LASC conference showcases the research of current Santa Cruz linguistics students, and features a Santa Cruz PhD alum as an invited speaker.
Yale linguistics graduate students Yao-Ying Lai and Rikker Dockum presented talks at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Rikker’s talk, “Tonal evidence in historical linguistics: Genetic signal or typological noise?” was based largely on his fieldwork of Khamti, a Tai language spoken in Myanmar and India.