Congratulations to Ellen O'Connor for winning a 3-year fellowship from the National Science Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Also congratulations to the second year cohort for submitting their first screening papers!
13 April 2011
03 March 2011
Spring Travel and Talks
Christina Hagedorn is presenting at the International Seminar on Speech Production in Montreal in June. She is also going to a summer school for robust methods in statistics in Bertinoro, Italy in july.
Hector Velazquez presented a talk at the 14th Annual Spanish Graduate Conference at Arizona State University, in Tempe, AZ. His talk (in Spanish) had the title "Elisión de un verbum dicendi como expresión sintáctica de un presupuesto pragmático en español"
Hagit Borer spent the month of February traveling across South America, besides getting stranded in Buenos Aires, she taught a crash course in Curitiba, and spent a week in Rio de Janeiro. She is now home in Paris for the month before she goes to the Netherlands for three months... She took these pictures in Brazil:
Roumyana Pancheva recently gave an invited talk on "Comparative Illusions" in March in the linguistics seminar/cognitive science series at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She also gave an invited talk at the Cornell Linguistics Colloquium.
Sarah Ouwayda is spending the semester as a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In April, she is giving a talk entitled "Cardinals Without Plurality" in the LFRG meeting at MIT, and a talk entitled "Agreement, Plurality, and the Structure of the DP" at Ling-Lunch at MIT.
Priyanka Biswas, Arunima Choudhury, Mythili Menon, and Syed Saurov all gave talks at the UMass South Asian Syntax and Semantics Workshop in March.
The crowd at UMass!
Hagit Borer spent the month of February traveling across South America, besides getting stranded in Buenos Aires, she taught a crash course in Curitiba, and spent a week in Rio de Janeiro. She is now home in Paris for the month before she goes to the Netherlands for three months... She took these pictures in Brazil:
Funky plant! (Brazil)
Tree with football sized fruit growing directly from the trunk (Brazil)
Roumyana Pancheva recently gave an invited talk on "Comparative Illusions" in March in the linguistics seminar/cognitive science series at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She also gave an invited talk at the Cornell Linguistics Colloquium.
Human and bird homes near UIUC
Elsi Kaiser gave an invited talk on what hands and eyes can tell us about discourse representations in Language & Cognition at Harvard University.
Elena Guerzoni is giving an invited talk at the Generative Linguistics in the Old World in the University of Vienna in April.
Sarah Ouwayda is spending the semester as a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In April, she is giving a talk entitled "Cardinals Without Plurality" in the LFRG meeting at MIT, and a talk entitled "Agreement, Plurality, and the Structure of the DP" at Ling-Lunch at MIT.
15 February 2011
Visiting Scholar: Sofiana Chiriacescu
We have a visiting scholar, Sofiana Chiriacescu, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany spending the Spring Semester 2011 at our department, working on an experiment in the language processing lab coordinated by Elsi Kaiser.
Sofiana is a Ph.D. Fellow and a researcher at the University of Stuttgart. Her main research interests are in semantics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics. She currently investigates the discourse structuring potential of indefinite noun phrases in Romanian, German and English. Sofiana graduated with an M.A. in German and English Linguistics and Literature from the University of Stuttgart in 2007 and a Diploma in German, English and Sociology form the University “Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, Romania in 2003.
When not working, the things Sofiana enjoys most are outdoor activities (skiing, hiking, biking, playing tennis, gardening), spending time with her friends and family and cooking.
11 February 2011
USC linguists hiking Mt. Baldy
Some pictures from gorgeous Mt. Baldy, where a group of brave USC linguists went last weekend!
Climbing...
Posing...
Hiking...
10 February 2011
When a linguist visited from SUNY
Pictures from the party at Barbara and Mythili's place, when John Bailyn visited us from SUNY!
Barbara Tomaszewicz, Barry Schein, Agnieszka Lazorczyk, John Bailyn, and Roumyana Pancheva
Arunima Choudhury, Mary Byram-Washburn, Saurov Syed, and Priyanka Biswas
Hajime Hoji, Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson
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