Congratulations to Bill!

We wholeheartedly congratulate Professor Bill Rutherford on being chosen to receive the 2012 Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award!

The well deserved award will be presented to him at the annual Academic Honors Convocation on April 4th.

USC linguists at FASAL-2

In the coming March, many of us will be presenting at FASAL 2 at MIT:

Priyanka Biswas

Bangla Default Classifier Revisited

Arunima Choudhury and Elsi Kaiser

Information structure, prosodic focus in Bangla: Comparing production & perception

Sarah Ouwayda and Mythili Menon

Malayalam -kaL is Plural, English ‘Plural Marking’ is Not

Roumyana Pancheva and Priyanka Biswas

Temporal Adverbials, Negation, and the Bangla Perfect

Saurov Syed

The Syntactic Encoding of I- and M- Possessors

Andrew Simpson, Arunima Choudhury, and Mythili Menon

Empty nominal categories in Bangla, Hindi and Malayala

The program of FASAL 2 can be found here: http://fasal.mit.edu/FASAL2-program.pdf