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June 2011 - Congratulations, Joyce McDonough!
Provost's Multidisciplinary Award Recipient with Betsy Marvin (ESM) and Anne Luebke (SMD): Perception of Music and Language through Auditory Interference. Read more...
March 2011 - Rochester Review: Greg Carlson investigates how language influences consumer choices
Decisions, decisions: Linguists Gregory Carlson and Julie Sedivy ’97 (PhD) examine the ways we make decisions—and how advertisers exploit those processes—in their new book, Sold on Language. Read more...
January 2011 - Congratulations, Sharese King!
Undergraduate Linguistics Major's abstract, On the Interplay of Syntax and Pragmatics: Evidence from Representational NPs and Ellipsis, has been approved for presentation at the 2011 National Conference on Undergraduate Research [NCUR] at Ithaca College. Established in 1987, NCUR is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity in all fields of study by sponsoring an annual conference for students. Click for more on NCUR...
January 2011 - Jeff Runner and Christina Kim, Linguistics Society of America's Newsworthy Abstract
The LSA is working to increase public awareness of the kind of work that linguists do and has invited reviewers to identify abstracts presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting that they felt had newsworthy content abstract. Jeff Runner and Christina Kim's Syntactic identity isn't enforced blindly: VP ellipsis and pseudogapping has been recognized as such. Click here to read the abstract...
January 2011 - Jeff Runner and Neal Snider, Linguistics Society of America's Model Abstract
The LSA has chosen model abstracts with which they urge members to consult before preparing and submitting their own. Jeff Runner and Neal Snider's Phonological structure is reactivated in VP ellipsis has been recognized as such. Click here to read the abstract...
May 2010 - Emerald appoints Jeff Runner as new Editor for leading linguistics book series, Syntax and Semantics
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jeff Runner (University of Rochester, New York, USA) as Series Editor for the Syntax and Semantics book series. Professor Runner will be taking on the role immediately, working on the series’ next volume expected for publication in 2011. Read more...
April 2010 - Grant Will Create Atlas of Endangered Languages
Joyce McDonough, an associate professor of linguistics and brain and cognitive sciences, has been awarded a two-year, $201,670 National Science Foundation Polar Institute grant to develop an interactive online speech atlas of endangered native languages of the Mackenzie Basin, a vast and sparsely populated region of northwestern Canada. Read more...