DEPARTMENTAL HONORS FOR WINTER GRADUATES
Congratulations to Claire Miller Willahan, Elisa McIsaac, Edward Shingle for graduating in Winter 2021 with their B.A.s in Linguistics and receiving departmental honors!
HEDDING RECIVED THI SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
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.
TOOSARVANDANI IN THI MEMORY SERIES
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.
R/LAB
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.
MRG
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!
PHLUNCH
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.
SPLAP
SPLAP had their second meeting on Monday, 04/12, from 1 pm to 2 pm at this Zoom link. They discussed Chapter 4 of Alex Göbel’s (2020) dissertation (full copy here).