Congratulations to Katy McKinney-Bock

Double congratulations to Katy McKinney-Bock! Katy has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at Reed College, and she has also successfully defended her dissertation. Katy's dissertation is called:

"Building Phrase Structure from Items and Contexts"
Katy McKinney-Bock

Many congratulations to Katy on both accounts!

Here are some snaps from Katy's defense celebration!

USC at FASL 22

There were three USC presentations at the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 22 (FASL 22) conference at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, May 3-5, 2013.

Barbara Tomaszewicz gave a talk on Comparison of Degrees or of Individuals? Focus Effects in Superlatives in Polish.

Khalil Iskarous had a joint presentation with Darya Kavitskaya on Slavic palatalization: phonetic instantiation vs. phonological representation.

Roumi Pancheva gave an invited talk titled On the missing proportional reading of Slavic most.

Congratulations to Mary Byram Washburn

Congratulations to graduate student and soon-to-be PhD Mary Byram Washburn! She has successfully completed her dissertation defense! Her dissertation is entitled:

Narrowing the Focus: Experimental Studies on Exhaustivity and Contrast.

 Many congratulations to Mary!

Here is a pic of Mary with Prof. Elsi Kaiser

USC presence at CLS 49

The 49th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society was held on April 18-20, 2013 at the University of Chicago.

Brian Hsu gave a talk at the Syntax-Phonology Interface parasession on "Constraining exceptionality as prosody-morphology mismatch: A study of French nasal vowels". 

Professor Roumi Pancheva gave an invited talk at the Slavic Linguistics parasession on "Quantity superlatives: the view from Slavic and its cross-linguistic implications".

Congratulations to both of them for presenting at this great conference!

USC presence at LSRL

The 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages was held in April 17-19, 2013 at the City University of New York. Professors Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and Mario Saltarelli (Dpt of Spanish and Portuguese) attended this conference and gave the following talks:

 Stages of grammaticalization of the assertion structure in Spanish varieties  (Maria Luisa Zubizarreta)

Marsican Deixis and the Indexical Nature of Syntax (Mario Saltarelli)

Congratulations to both of them!