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Weekly Digest, 10/16/23

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Oct 15, 2023
2 min read

Hope everyone had a great fall break! If you have news to share, please submit your news for future issues of SCling Wrap, because we need your help keeping up with what’s ✨fresh✨ at USC Linguistics.

Inked ✍️

New papers by department members hot off the press:

  • Zuzanna Fuchs. 2023. “Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm.” Morphology (online first). Link to paper.

  • Andrew Simpson. 2023. “In defense of verb-stranding VP ellipsis.” Syntax. Link to paper.

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

  • Yaqing Hu and Andrew Simpson. “Specificity in Lalo Yi.” International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10/10/23.

  • Elsi Kaiser. “Talking about people: Pronoun interpretation, last names and gender bias.” Language and Cognition talk series, Harvard University, 10/10/23.

  • Deniz Rudin. “Quotative and Non-Quotative Speech Reports.” University of Arizona Colloquium, 10/13/23.

In Other News…

The first year graduate student cohort had a little fun over Fall Break last week with a pet meet-up: pictured below is Su‘s bearded dragon Cho with Anna‘s dog Tash. Cross-species communication paper coming soon?

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Fall Colloquiua

Here are the upcoming department colloquiua for the fall! Colloquiums are Mondays at 3:30pm, in the linguistics conference room.

  • November 6: Ashwini Deo (University of Texas, Austin)

  • November 13: Matt Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Department Events

Recurring department research group meetings this semester:

  • Tuesday, 10/17 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Aria Adli (Cologne University), “Syntax, cognition, and aging”

  • Tuesday, 10/17 at 2pm @ PhonLunch: no meeting

  • Wednesday, 10/17 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Yaqing Hu, TBA

  • Wednesday, 10/17 at 5:30pm @ Meaning Lab: no meeting

USiL Events

The newly revamped Undergraduate Students in Linguistics (USiL) will be meeting weekly on Mondays at 6-8pm in the linguistics conference room (with pizza!). Check out their new website for more information: https://www.usilusc.org/.

 
 
 

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