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Matthew Carter, Nina Hagen Kaldhol, and Matt Zaslansky presented at SLE
Ph.D. students Matthew Carter, Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Matt Zaslansky gave talks at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. The conference was supposed to take place in Bucharest, but was moved online. The organizers did a great job in making a virtual program, including a welcome session with musical performances from all over Europe!
Matthew Carter. “What Licenses Polyfunctionality?: The Case of /b3/ in Ket”. https://osf.io/qhb5u/
Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sverre Stausland Johnsen. “Grammaticalization in Somali and the shaping of prosodic types”. https://osf.io/945wh/
Matthew Zaslansky. “Persistence and variation in Turkic deponent verbs”. https://osf.io/9g745/
Language Comprehension Lab presentations at SAFAL-1 and AMLaP
Our Language Comprehension Lab has four presentations this week, one at the First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), and three at AMLaP:
- How does case marking constrain event representations?
Talk at SAFAL-1 by Eva Wittenberg, Mohit Gurumukhani and Ashwini Vaidya - Non-Linguistic Context Affects Processing of Ambiguous Speech
Poster #313 by Daniel Kleinman, Rachel Ostrand, Adam Morgan, Mohit Gurumukhani, and Eva Wittenberg - Multiple Meanings of Doubling Up: Mandarin Verbal Reduplication
Poster #152 by Catherine Arnett and Eva Wittenberg - Form-specific preferences of proforms and demonstratives referring to events
Poster #213 by Joshua Wampler and Eva Wittenberg
Ivano Caponigro is presenting at UC Berkeley
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro is giving a talk on “Logic and Grammar: Richard Montague’s Turn towards Natural Language” at the Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science at UC Berkeley on March 18, 2020. Ivano will present some of the findings from the intellectual and personal biography of Richard Montague (1930-1971) that he is currently working on.
Emily Clem has a new paper on Amahuaca ergative in NLLT
Emily Clem, who just joined our department as one of our two new syntacticians, has a new paper on “Amahuaca ergative as agreement with multiple heads” that just appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37(3): 785–823. 2019. [open source version] [published version]
Sharon Rose at ALS 5
Sharon Rose taught at the 5th African Linguistics School at Rhodes University in South Africa this summer. The school provides African linguistics students from across the continent the opportunity to take two weeks of courses with international and Africa-based faculty.
SemanticsBabble receives its 7th annual IAH grant
SemanticsBabble, the interdisciplinary discussion group on formal and experimental approaches to language meaning that is lead by Ivano Caponigro (Linguistics) and Jonathan Cohen (Philosophy), has just been awarded its 7th annual grant from the UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities. The grant will help with inviting scholars and students from other institutions to present and discuss their current research on language meaning during the academic year 2019-2020.
Friends Fellowship for Nese Demir
Congratulations to Nese Demir, who has been awarded a 2019 Friends of the International Center fellowship. Nese will use the funds to conduct fieldwork in Eastern Turkey this summer.
TRELS fellowship for Linguistics Undergraduate Student
Claudia Duarte-Bórquez was awarded a Triton Research and Experimental Learning Scholarship (TRELS) for Spring Quarter, 2019. Claudia is working under the guidance of Justin McIntosh on a project documenting and describing San Juan Piñas Mixtec, an Oto-Manguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico and in San Diego county. This project began in the context of LIGN 139, ‘Field Methods’, taught in the Spring 2018 in collaboration with Ms. Claudia Juárez, a native speaker of this language. This May, Claudia will present the results of her investigation in the 22nd annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) at UC Santa Barbara. Her research project will also be showcased at UCSD’s Undergraduate Research Conference on May 18th. Claudia is an undergraduate Language Studies major in her final quarter at UCSD and has plans to attend graduate school to study documentary and descriptive linguistics. Congratulations, Claudia!!!
TRELS fellowship for a Research Assistant in Linguistics!
Mohit Gurumukhani, a Research Assistant in the Language Comprehension Lab, just won a Triton Research and Experiential Learning Scholarship (TRELS) award for Spring Quarter, 2019. Mohit is working under the guidance of Eva Wittenberg on a project that investigates the role of Hindi case-marking. While Mohit is a Computer Science Major, the training provided by the lab has uniquely qualified him to tackle a complex problem in linguistics. Congratulations, Mohit!