Faculty member Ivano Caponigro has just accepted the invitation to join the editorial team of the journal “Linguistics and Philosophy” as an associate editor.
Emily Clem has new papers in the proceedings of NELS 52 and SALT 32
Faculty member Emily Clem has two new papers. The first is entitled “Accounting for parallels between inverse marking and the PCC” and is published in the proceedings of NELS 52. The second is entitled “Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca” and is published in the proceedings of SALT 32.
San Diego Linguistics Papers 12
San Diego Linguistics Papers 12 has been published. It contains the paper “The second generation of “New Shanghainese”: their language and identity” by Shihong Weng. It is available here: http://grammar.ucsd.edu/sdlp/current.html
Emily Davis presented at the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 Annual meeting
Graduate student Emily Davis presented both a talk and a poster at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2023 in Denver, which was held January 5-8, 2023. The title of the talk was “Multiple center-embedding is more common in verb-final languages” and the abstract can be seen here. The poster was entitled “Learnability and emergence of dependency structures in an artificial language”, the abstract can be seen here, while the poster is below.
Ivano Caponigro presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro and Anamaria Fălăuş (CNRS, Nantes) gave a talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022, which was held in Amsterdam on December 19-21, 2022. The title of their presentation was “The semantics of Rudin constructions in Romanian”. The paper is available here.
Michelle Yuan is an invited speaker at WSCLA 26
Faculty member Michelle Yuan is one of the invited speakers at the 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, to take place at McGill University on April 28-30, 2023.
Ivano Caponigro is an invited speaker at SALT 33
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro is an invited speakers at the 33rd meeting of the annual conference Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33), which is organized at Yale University on May 12-14, 2023.
Michelle Yuan has a new article in Language
Faculty member Michelle Yuan has a new paper in Language:
Yuan, Michelle. 2022. Ergativity and object movement across Inuit. Language 98(3): 510-551. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0270
Abstract:
Although the Inuit language is generally characterized as ergative, it has been observed that the ergative case patterning is relatively weaker in certain Eastern Canadian varieties, resulting in a more accusative appearance (e.g. Johns 2001, 2006, Carrier 2017). This article presents a systematic comparison of ergativity in three Inuit varieties, as a lens into the properties of case alignment and clause structure in Inuit more broadly. Building on the previous insight that ergativity in Inuit is tied to object movement to a structurally high position (Bittner 1994, Bittner & Hale 1996a,b, Woolford 2017), I demonstrate that the relative robustness of the ergative patterning across Inuit is tightly correlated with the permissibility of object movement—and not determined by the morphosyntactic properties of ERG subjects, which are uniform across Inuit. I additionally relate this correlation to another point of variation across Inuit concerning the status of object agreement as affixes vs. pronominal clitics (Yuan 2021). These connections offer testable predictions for the status of ergativity across the entire Inuit dialect continuum and yield crosslinguistic implications for the typology of case alignment, especially in how it interacts with the syntactic position of nominals.
Yuan Chai and Marc Garellek have a new publication in JASA
Alumna Yuan Chai (Ph.D. 2022) and faculty member Marc Garellek have a new publication in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America entitled “On H1–H2 as an acoustic measure of linguistic phonation type”: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014175.
This paper, which is part of a special issue in JASA called “Reconsidering Classic Ideas in Speech Communication,” revisits the use of the acoustic measure H1–H2 for characterizing phonation types, and proposes a new measure that is argued to be better for measuring creaky voice in particular.
UCSD presentations at the Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology
Three UCSD linguists will be presenting work at the upcoming Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology at Stony Brook University (Sept. 22-24):
- Postdoctoral researcher Eric Meinhardt will be giving a tutorial entitled “SMT solvers as a research tool for phonology”
- Graduate student Olivia Griffin will be giving a talk entitled “Computational Complexity and Iconic Functions of Morphophonological Processes” (a collaboration with Jia He Sun, Queen’s University)
- Faculty member Eric Baković will be participating in a panel discussion (with Karthik Durvasula, MSU; Adam Jardine, Rutgers; and Kristine Yu, UMass)
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format, and is free for all to register and attend.