NYU Linguistics

Congratulations to our Fall 2022 DURF Award Winners

https://as.nyu.edu/departments/linguistics/news/fall-2022/congratulations-to-our-fall-2022-durf-award-winners.html

NYU LINGUISTS AT NWAV50 NYU LINGUISTS AT NWAV50 The NYU Sociolab had a strong showing at the 50th New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference, hosted by Stanford University from October 13–15! Current lab members (noted with *), alumni, and friends presenting at the conference included: Project launch: Mocking or ...

Cournane in Journal of Semantics Cournane in Journal of Semantics Cournane & UMD colleagues  Annemarie van Dooren (1st author), Anouk Dieuleveut, & Valentine Hacquard in Journal of Semantics, "Figuring Out Root and Epistemic Uses of Modals: The Role of the Input" Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffac010

Laziz Nchare publishes in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Laziz Nchare publishes in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Our PhD alum Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare has published a paper with Jason Kandybowicz on Integrated Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Shupamem in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Hagen Blix in Glossa Hagen Blix in Glossa Glossa just published a new paper by Hagen Blix, "Interface Legibility and Nominal Classification: A Nanosyntactic Account of Kipsigis Singulatives". Read it here: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5825/

Mary Robinson's dissertation defense and new position Mary Robinson's dissertation defense and new position On July 28, Mary Robinson successfully defended her dissertation, "Negative concord as a window into social perception of morphological and syntactic variables." Her committee consisted of Laurel MacKenzie (co-chair), Gary Thoms (co-chair), Ail....

Sarah Phillips's Dissertation Defense and New Position Sarah Phillips's Dissertation Defense and New Position On June 21st, 2022, Sarah Phillips successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Composing Mixed-Language Expressions in the Bilingual Mind." Her committee consisted of Liina Pylkkänen (chair), Ailís Cournane, Alec Marantz, Gary Thoms, and...

Tenure, Sabbatical for Bowman Tenure, Sabbatical for Bowman Sam Bowman was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective this fall. Sam will spend a sabbatical year on leave as a visiting researcher at the private language modeling research lab Anthropic during AY 2022–23.

Zvjezdana Vrzić’s forthcoming activities Zvjezdana Vrzić’s forthcoming activities Zvjezdana is co-organizing and presenting or lecturing at the following events in the course of this June and July, : the Multilingual, multilectal, multiscriptal seminar to be held from June 20-24, 2022 at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croa...

NYU Semanticists at SALT 32 NYU Semanticists at SALT 32 NYU semanticists will be giving four presentations at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32,  co-hosted by El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City on June 8 – 10, 2022.  Our own Violeta Vázquez Rojas...

Soo-Hwan Lee and Selikem Gotah give talks at UChicago, Yale, and UC Berkeley Soo-Hwan Lee and Selikem Gotah give talks at UChicago, Yale, and UC Berkeley Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) talk & poster (http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/public/CLS_58.pdf) "Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) Agent Nominalization" Selikem Gotah & Soo-Hwan Lee "Linearly adjacent allomorphs & syntacti...