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- Adam Albright<\/a> -\u00a0Advanced Morphology: Syncretism and Paradigm Structure<\/li>\n
- Kai von Fintel<\/a>\u00a0and Sabine Iatridou<\/a> -\u00a0The Linguistics of Desire<\/li>\n
- Sabine Iatridou -\u00a0Introduction to Syntax<\/li>\n
- Shigeru Miyagawa<\/a> -\u00a0Language and Animal Communication in Evolution<\/li>\n
- Donca Steriade<\/a> -\u00a0Introduction to Phonology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The summer school was attended by many MIT students as well: Rafael Abramovitz<\/a> (4th year),\u00a0Daniel Asherov<\/a> (2nd year), Tanya Bondarenko<\/a> (2nd year), Colin Davis<\/a> (4th year),\u00a0<\/span>\u00d6mer Demirok<\/a> (5th year),\u00a0Verena Hehl<\/a>\u00a0(4th year),<\/span>\u00a0Ma\u009aa Mo?nik<\/a> (4th year), Elise Newman<\/a> (3rd year),\u00a0<\/span>Frank Staniszewski<\/a> (3rd year) and\u00a0Stan Zompi<\/a> (2nd year)<\/span>.\u00a0Rafael,\u00a0Daniel, Tanya and \u00d6mer also served as course TAs. Check out nice photos from the event, such as this one below, on the summer school’s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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- Justin Colley<\/a>\u00a0(4th year), Verena Hehl,\u00a0Anton Kukhto<\/a>\u00a0(1st year) and Mitya Privoznov<\/a>\u00a0(4th year) went into the heart of Siberia for a fieldwork expedition\u00a0in the village of Kazym, Central Khanty. Mitya reports: “We had a lot of fun, suffered from mosquitoes and hopefully gathered some useful data as well :).”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- In August, Tanya Bondarenko and Colin Davis participated in a joint fieldtrip with a group of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University to study Barguzin Buryat in Baraghan village, the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Conference presentations<\/strong>:\n
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- Neil Banerjee<\/a>\u00a0(3rd year) presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association<\/a>\u00a0(May 30-June 1) on\u00a0CARP in Kinyarwanda<\/a>, and at\u00a0CHRONOS 13<\/a> (June 4-June 6) on\u00a0the temporal orientation of necessity modals<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- In early June, Elise Newman<\/a> (3rd year) went to the University of Olomouc, Czech Republic and presented work on the English auxiliary system at OLINCO<\/a>. Elise: “Several MIT alumni were there; Joe Emonds co-organized the conference and I found out that he and I are both Cubs fans!”.<\/li>\n
- Filipe Kobayashi<\/a>\u00a0(2nd year) and Sherry Chen<\/a>\u00a0(2nd year) presented joint work on distributive numerals in Mandarin Chinese<\/a> at the student session of the\u00a0North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI)<\/a>, held at CMU in late June. Ma\u009aa Mo?nik also attended the summer school.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- On August 4,\u00a0Danfeng Wu<\/a> (3rd year), Shigeru Miyagawa (faculty),\u00a0Masatoshi Koizumi (PhD \u009295, now at Tohoku University) and Mamoru Saito (PhD \u009285, now at Nanzan University) gave talks at the\u00a0Workshop on Case Theory and Labeling of Structures<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Tokyo. Prior to that on July 28, Danfeng presented a poster co-authored with Shigeru and Masatoshi at\u00a0MAPLL \u00d7 TCP \u00d7 TL \u00d7 TaLK (MT3)<\/a>\u00a0at Keio University. After that, she also attended and presented at the Summer Seminar on Frontiers of Language and Cognition Research.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Norvin Richards<\/a>\u00a0(faculty) gave a series of talks on Contiguity Theory at SICOGG 20 in Seoul<\/a>, held on August 8-10, and then another talk at Kyungpook National University in Daegu.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- Just a few days ago, Verena Hehl gave a presentation at SLE in Tallinn<\/a>\u00a0on Bildungsplan Baden W\u00fcrtteberg 2016: Promoting Grammar as Science from the bottom up \u0096 a case study<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Education<\/strong>:\n
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- Neil Banerjee, Cora Lesure<\/a>\u00a0(3rd year) and\u00a0D\u00f3ra Tak\u00e1cs<\/a>\u00a0(2nd year) taught a 7-week introductory linguistics course for middle and high school students as part of\u00a0HSSP<\/a>, from June till August.\u00a0Their course, entitled `How language works’, covered topics ranged from sound production and the IPA over cross-linguistic variation and case to NPIs and implicatures. D\u00f3ra writes: “About 35 students participated in the class, which was hopefully a lot of fun and definitely an interesting and valuable experience for everyone.”<\/li>\n
- Naomi Francis<\/a>\u00a0(5th year), Verena Hehl and\u00a0Ma\u009aa Mo?nik graduated from the Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program<\/a>\u00a0(KTCP) in June. The participants report: “Graduates of the KTCP attend 8 sessions on a wide range of topics in teaching and learning and are exposed to current research on pedagogical methodology through assigned readings and in-class discussions. We also had the opportunity to create and receive feedback on teaching philosophy statements for academic job applications.”<\/li>\n
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In May, Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)<\/a>, an MIT initiative to support global education, announced a grant funding to\u00a0MITILI<\/a>\u00a0 student\u00a0Newell Lewey<\/a>\u00a0and to prof. Norvin Richards\u00a0for the project\u00a0Skicinuwi-npisun: A Community-Centered Project for Documentation and Teaching of the Passamaquoddy Language.<\/em>\u00a0The project\u00a0supports language teaching and curriculum development to help preserve the severely endangered Passamaquoddy language of Northern Maine.\u00a0The grant includes funding for Newell’s language classes, and for a group of graduate students from the department to travel with Norvin to Passamaquoddy country to work with elders.\u00a0Here<\/a> you can read a little more about the project. Congratulations Newell and Norvin!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- Alumni news<\/strong>:\n
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- Our distinguished alum\u00a0Heidi Harley<\/a>\u00a0(PhD 1995), now at\u00a0 the University of Arizona, has been elected a 2019 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America<\/a>! Heidi’s colleagues as LSA Fellows include 38 other MIT alums and members of our faculty who have been elected in previous years \u0097 more than a quarter of the (now) 138 Fellows of the Society. Congratulations Heidi (and our warmest congratulations to the other newly elected Fellows as well)!<\/span><\/li>\n
- Another one of our distinguished alums,\u00a0John McCarthy<\/a>\u00a0(PhD 1979) - a pioneer in the development of phonological theory for over four decades -\u00a0has been named Provost and more at UMass Amherst<\/a>, where he has taught since 1985. Very exciting news \u0097 congratulations John!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have some summer news to share with you: The CreteLing Summer School took place\u00a0in July at the University of Crete in Rethymnon, and several MIT faculty (and alumni) taught courses: Adam Albright -\u00a0Advanced Morphology: Syncretism and Paradigm Structure Kai von Fintel\u00a0and Sabine Iatridou -\u00a0The Linguistics of Desire Sabine Iatridou -\u00a0Introduction to Syntax Shigeru Miyagawa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,7,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-conferences","category-faculty-news","category-student-news","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Another one of our distinguished alums,\u00a0John McCarthy<\/a>\u00a0(PhD 1979) - a pioneer in the development of phonological theory for over four decades -\u00a0has been named Provost and more at UMass Amherst<\/a>, where he has taught since 1985. Very exciting news \u0097 congratulations John!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Naomi Francis<\/a>\u00a0(5th year), Verena Hehl and\u00a0Ma\u009aa Mo?nik graduated from the Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program<\/a>\u00a0(KTCP) in June. The participants report: “Graduates of the KTCP attend 8 sessions on a wide range of topics in teaching and learning and are exposed to current research on pedagogical methodology through assigned readings and in-class discussions. We also had the opportunity to create and receive feedback on teaching philosophy statements for academic job applications.”<\/li>\n
- Neil Banerjee, Cora Lesure<\/a>\u00a0(3rd year) and\u00a0D\u00f3ra Tak\u00e1cs<\/a>\u00a0(2nd year) taught a 7-week introductory linguistics course for middle and high school students as part of\u00a0HSSP<\/a>, from June till August.\u00a0Their course, entitled `How language works’, covered topics ranged from sound production and the IPA over cross-linguistic variation and case to NPIs and implicatures. D\u00f3ra writes: “About 35 students participated in the class, which was hopefully a lot of fun and definitely an interesting and valuable experience for everyone.”<\/li>\n
- In early June, Elise Newman<\/a> (3rd year) went to the University of Olomouc, Czech Republic and presented work on the English auxiliary system at OLINCO<\/a>. Elise: “Several MIT alumni were there; Joe Emonds co-organized the conference and I found out that he and I are both Cubs fans!”.<\/li>\n
- Neil Banerjee<\/a>\u00a0(3rd year) presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association<\/a>\u00a0(May 30-June 1) on\u00a0CARP in Kinyarwanda<\/a>, and at\u00a0CHRONOS 13<\/a> (June 4-June 6) on\u00a0the temporal orientation of necessity modals<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Conference presentations<\/strong>:\n
- In August, Tanya Bondarenko and Colin Davis participated in a joint fieldtrip with a group of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University to study Barguzin Buryat in Baraghan village, the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Kai von Fintel<\/a>\u00a0and Sabine Iatridou<\/a> -\u00a0The Linguistics of Desire<\/li>\n