ENDLESS SUMMER
Nick Kalivoda will be traveling to Oaxaca to conduct fieldwork on Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. Nick’s work will focus on the language’s agreement system, and on a continuing investigation of relative clause structure and binding non-connectivity—part of an ongoing project with Erik Zyman.
Bern Samko will travel to Leuven/Louvain in Flanders (Belgium) on June 13th to give an invited presentation to the FEST group at the University of Leuven on her ongoing research on syntax and information structure in English.
Erik Zyman will be traveling to Janitzio, an island on Lake Pátzcuaro in the state of Michoacán in central-western Mexico, to continue his work on P’urhepecha. He will be investigating the clause structure of this language, and specifically the syntax of the verb phrase.
Amy Rose Deal will travel to Israel in July for the workshop Allomorphy: its logic and limitations, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also expected to be in attendance are alums Ruth Kramer and Peter Svenonius. Amy Rose’s paper for the conference deals with certain interesting patterns of plural marking and double reduplication in Nez Perce.
Grant McGuire will be presenting at the upcoming LabPhon 14 conference at the NINJAL Institute in Tachikawa, Japan on July 24-27th. The oral presentation program is here. Grant’s talk is titled Stereotypes predict memory effects for voices. Junko Ito and Armin Mester will also be at the conference.
Jaye Padgett will be in Ireland for the last two weeks of June to do more ultrasound fieldwork in Conamara, together with collaborator Máire Ní Chiosáin of University College Dublin. Also involved in this ongoing project are Grant McGuire and alumnus Ryan Bennett of Yale.
Maziar Toosarvandani will be devoting the summer to some intense fieldwork on Northern Paiute with the Mono Lake community near Bridgeport in eastern California.
Matt Wagers and Sandy Chung will return twice to the islands of Saipan and Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands to continue their psycholinguistic work on Chamorro. They will collect new data on relative clause comprehension in June, and relative clause production in September. Back in Santa Cruz, the Digital Chamorro Group will be working hard: Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, the 2013-2014 NSF REU fellow, will continue her corpus-based research on person-animacy constraints in Chamorro, while Karl DeVries, the NSF Graduate Research Associate, will resume his work on building digital tools for using the Chamorro dictionary database.