NOT WITH A WHIMPER

The quarter finally ended and LASC 2014, the department’s annual celebration of graduate student research, took place. The pictures are here (courtesy of Oliver Northrup). Karl DeVries, Clara Sherley-Appel, Brianna Kaufman, Erik Zyman, Karen Duek, Anna Greenwood, Nick Kalivoda, along with guest speaker Ruth Kramer of Georgetown University delivered papers on an impressively wide range of topics in current linguistics—real-time processing of agreement, sublexical coordination, the acquisition of unproductive morphological processes, the typology of degree constructions, polysemy and reference, phonological acquisition, loanword adaptation, and the morphosyntax of gender—all under the watchful eye of LASC Czarina Sandy Chung. A party of considerable proportions ensued at the midtown home of Sandy and Jim McCloskey.