Linguistics Department Fall 2023 Round-Up

It’s the end of another great semester! The Linguistics department is so proud of everything our students and faculty have accomplished this year, including several paper presentations and conference attendances. 

In October, doctoral student Seaira Lett presented her research on “The morphosyntax of imperatives in Chuj (Mayan): Support for encoding the addressee in syntax,” in Belgium at the 16^th Brussels Conference Generative Linguistics. Seaira also attended the 10^th annual Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America and presented her research at the University of Texas in Austin. More information on CILLA X can be found here.

Dustin Chacón and Donald Dunagan traveled to Marseilles, France, in late October for the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference. They presented their research titled, “An EEG investigation into early syntactic processing: A rapid parallel visual presentation study of agreement and WH-dependencies in English.” Session recordings of the conference can be found here, along with more information about the conference and Marseilles. 

Adding to our busy month of October activities, Dr. Jared Klein and Ph.D. student Artin Nasirpour presented at the 34^th annual West Coast Indo-European Conference in UCLA. Dr. Klein presented his paper “’Now’ and ‘Then’ in Indo-European Discourse,” and Artin spoke about his research in “Old Slavic Dialectology: Salient features of Old Novgorodian and evidence for a North Slavic subgrouping.” Information on the conference, including abstracts and presentation handouts, can be found here. 

Ph.D. student Keiko Bridwell presented at the 51^st annual NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) conference, the theme of which was “Variation in the World’s Languages.” Keiko’s presentation abstract, “Salience and Southernness: A perception study of [hw],” can be found here, along with other information about the conference program.

While Keiko was at Queen’s College in New York, Dr. Chad Howe was in Utah attending the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted by Brigham Young University. Dr. Howe participated in two presentations: one of his work on “A Corpus Approach to V1-and-V2 Constructions in Portuguese,” and one with fellow UGA faculty and researchers Paula Mellom, Shannon Rodriguez, Rebecca Hixon, and Jodi Weber. More information on the conference program can be found here. 

Finally, Linguistics faculty member Joshua Bousquette attended the 14^th annual Workshop for Immigrant Languages in the Americas. He chaired the second conference session and presented his own research titled “Language Mixing": Lexical Borrowing in Wisconsin Heritage German.” Conference information and abstracts can be found here.

Congratulations to the Linguistics department on everyone’s hard work and on the end of the Fall 2023 semester!