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Degrees Awarded:
Eden Kaiser passed her MA examination on October 17, 2007. Her paper is called "Toward the perfect syllable and beyond: Nasality and Nasal spreading in Guaraní. Eden's advisor is Benjamin Munson.
Hangtae Cho defended his dissertation on April 27th and was conferred on June 29, 2007. His dissertation title is "Implications of Old English Syllable Structure and Consonant Phonotactics for Phonological Theory". Hangtae will continue to lead our Korean program at the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. Hangtae's advisor is Joe Stemberger.
Mark Wicklund passed his MA exam and will receive his MA in Linguistics in October, 2007. Mark's advisor is Amy Sheldon.
Muhammad Abdurrahman received his MA in Linguistics in September, 2007. Muhammad's advisor is Jeanette Gundel.
Other Awards and Honors:
Dingcheng Li is the recipient of a BICB (Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology) traineeship for the 2007-08 academic year, one of only 10 such traineeships awarded on this round. The title of his project is "Information Extraction and Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text". His advisors on the project are Jeanette Gundel (Professor of Linguistics, U of M) Gueragana Savova, Research Scientist in Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic. Dr. Savova received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota.
Michiko Buchanan is the recipient of the following:- -Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2007-2008
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Summer 2007 to study Korean
- Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Travel Award to present a paper in Germany
- Mary Haga Graduate Women in Science Travel Award to present a paper in Germany
- Graduate and Professional Students Assembly (GAPSA) Travel Grant to present a paper in Germany
Paula Chesley received the 2006-2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Paula also received a scholarship/fellowship from CLA to attend the LSA Institute at Stanford.
Kaitlin Johnson, Kevin Schluter, and Sara Schmelzer received Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) fellowships to attend the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Kaitlin and Kevin are studying elementary Amharic and Sara is studying elementary Zulu.
Kevin Schluter and Kaitlin Johnson have both received a FLAS fellowship for the upcoming academic year. Kevin will be studying advanced Arabic, while Kaitlin will study beginning Hmong.
Ellen Lucast, Ph.D student, presented a paper entitled "Object Participant Reference in Dene Suline: Preliminary Findings" at the Athabaskan Languages Conference in Tsaile, Arizona, June 21-24.
Presentations and Publications:
Kaitlin Johnson and Sara Schmelzer have been accepted to present a paper "Voice Quality and Perceived Sexual Desirability" at the summer meeting of the Linguistics Society of America at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, July 10-13, 2008.
Mammadou Bassene will be presenting two papers at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The conference will be held in Athens, Georgia (USA) from 17-20 of April 2008. The two papers are titled, " Turn Organization in Eegimaa Conversation ", and "Mixed Category Constructions in Eegimaa Derived Nominals".
Kevin Schluter 's paper "Middle Stems, Pronouns, and Reflexivity in Biblical Hebrew" has been accepted for presentation at the North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, Friday March 14 - Sunday March 16, 2008 in Chicago, IL.
Eden Kaiser's paper titled "Long-distance continuous nasal spreading in Paraguayan Guaraní." has been accepted for presentation at a conference in Manaus, Brazil, from Dec. 3 through 7, 2007.
Kevin Schluter 's abstract "The Amharic Reduplicative Verb: A Word-Based Account" has been accepted for presentation at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference in Lawrence, Kansas to be held October 26-28 this year. Congratulations, Kevin!
Linda Humnick's paper "Pronominal Reflexives in Kumyk" has been accepted for the Conference on Languages of the Caucasus to take place in Leipzig, Germany, Dec. 7-9, 2007.
Dingcheng Li's abstract, titled A V-Raising Analysis of the Post-Verbal Modal Construction in Sichuan Mandarin has been accepted by the EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics). He has been invited to present it at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany from September 3-8, 2007.
Michiko Buchanan has three forthcoming publications:- Buchanan, Todokoro Michiko. VP Ellipsis in Japanese. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
- Buchanan, Todokoro Michiko. Two types of Negative Polarity Items: Evidence from VP-ellipsis in Japanese. Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Polarity 2007.
- Buchanan, Todokoro Michiko. Two types of NPIs in Japanese. Snippets 14.
Sharon Gerlach's paper entitled, "The problem of /s/-initial onset clusters: Evidence from acquisition for the role of featural sequence constraints" will be presented at the Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology to be held at Ohio State University October 26-28, 2007. Nobuko Davis has had her paper, "Absolutely No Codas in Japanese Syllables" accepted to present at the same workshop.
Paula Chesley's paper titled "Register Differences in the Particle Verb Alternation" (co-authored with Nyurguyana Petrova and Kirsta Mahonen, University of Buffalo) has been accepted for the Linguistic Society of America's 2008 Annual meeting. The conference will be held January 3-6, 2008 in Chicago IL. Additionally, a second paper titled "Towards Predicting New Words from Newer Words: Lexical Borrowings in French" was also accepted to the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, in Provo, Utah; March 13-15 2008.
Faculty News
A Festschrift in Honor of Jeanette Gundel's 60th Birthday has been published by John Benjamins. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface - essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. Hedberg, N. and R. Zacharski. 2007.
Faculty Publications:
Jeanette Gundel: Books
Gundel, J.K. and N. Hedberg, eds. In Press. (To appear in December, 2007.) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reference. Oxford University Press.
Jeanette Gundel: Articles
Gundel, J.K., D. Ntelitheos, and M. Kowalsky. 2007. In D. Bittner & N. Gagarina, eds. Proceedings of the Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language. Children's use of referring expressions: Some implications for theory of mind. ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 48.
Gundel, J.K. and A.E. Mulkern. 2007. Frequency differences in use of cleft sentences. A comparative study of English, Irish and Norwegian In R.A., Nilsen, N.A. Appiah Amfo, and K. Borten, eds., Interpreting Utterances: Pragmatics and its Interfaces. Essays in Honour of Thorstein Fretheim. Oslo: Novus Press.
Watters, S. and J.K. Gundel. 2007. An empirical investigation of the relation between coreference and quotations: can a pronoun located in quotations find its antecedent. In A. Branco, T. McEnery, R. Mitkov, and F. Silva, eds. Proceedings of DAARC 2007.
Hedberg, N., J.K. Gundel, and R. Zacharski. 2007. Directly and indirectly anaphoric demonstrative and personal pronouns in newspaper articles. In A. Branco, T. McEnery, R. Mitkove and F. Silva, eds. Proceedings of DAARC 2007.
Watters, S. and J.K. Gundel. In press. An empirical investigation of the relation between coreference and quotations: can a pronoun located in quotations find its antecedent. In A. Branco, T. McEnery, R. Mitkov, and F. Silva, eds. Anaphora: Analusis, Algorithms, and Applications. Springer Verlag. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
Gundel, J.K. In Press. Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences. In M. de los Ángeles Gómez González, E. González, and L. Mackenzie, eds., Languages and Cultures in Contrast: New Directions in Constrastive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Michael Kac:
Autonomous linguistics and psycholinguistics. In Timo Haukioja, ed., Papers on Language Theory (Publications in General Linguistics 10). Turku: University of Turku, 2006. 127-133
Linguistics and multidisciplinarity. In Timo Haukioja, ed., Papers on Language Theory (Publications in General Linguistics 10). Turku: University of Turku, 2006. 134-146.
Hooi Ling Soh:
Soh, Hooi Ling (2007). Ellipsis, Last Resort, and the Dummy Auxiliary shi ‘be’ in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistic Inquiry 38(1), 178-188.
Soh, Hooi Ling and Meijia Gao (2007). It’s over: Verbal –le in Mandarin Chinese. In The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski (eds.), 91-109. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Soh, Hooi Ling (In Press). The Syntax and Semantics of Change/Transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Theoretical and Cross-linguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Susan Rothstein (ed.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Soh, Hooi Ling and Meijia Gao (In Press). Mandarin sentential –le, perfect and English already. In Event Structure in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Johannes Dölling and Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
