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The Research Seminar Symposium has been scheduled for this week (April 16, Friday, 1:30 pm -4:00 pm; April 17, Saturday, 10:30 am-2:30 pm). The Symposium is the culmination of Linguistics 290, and it is a venue for second and third-year students to present their Qualifying Papers in progress. This year, Morwenna Hoeks, Vishal Arvindam, Lalitha Balachandran, Max Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Yaqing Cao, Dan Brodkin, Myke Brinkerhoff, Maya Wax Cavallero, and Jack Duff will be speaking on a range of topics in phonology, sentence processing, and formal semantics. Stay tuned for more information!

Andrew Hedding received a THI Summer Research Fellowship from the Humanities Institute for his dissertation “Focus in the Narrow Syntax.”

Congratulations, Andrew!

The full list of THI Fellowship winners can be found here.

Maziar Toosarvandani wrote an article “Remembering Language” for The Humanities Insitute’s 2o21 Memory Series. It explores the relationship between memory and linguistic communities, with special attention to the centrality of this relation for speakers of marginalized languages. In conversation with Fe Silva-Robles (Director and Co-Founder of Senderos), “Remembering Language” suggests that language serves as the root of our understanding of self, and indeed our very being.

For the meeting this week (Thursday, 04/15, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), Ivy Sichel will introduce resumptive pronouns and their distributions and interpretations.

Background reading is McCloskey (2006), Resumption. In M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk, Eds., The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol. iv, 94–117. Oxford: Blackwell.

Here is their website.

For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/14, at 11 am), MRG will discuss Chapter 2 of Embick’s 2010 book: A Localist Theory (of Allomorphy).

Their website can be found here. Stay tuned for Zoom information!

For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/14, at 10 am, Zoom link), Myke Brinkerhoff will lead a discussion of Nellis & Hollenbach (1980), “Fortis versus lenis in Cajonos Zapotec phonology”.

A tentative schedule can be found here.