Weekly Digest, 4/28/23

That’s a ✨wrap✨! With classes over, this will be the last issue of SCling Wrap for AY 22-23. Good luck with your final projects and have a wonderful summer!

Don’t forget to submit your news from the summer for the fall issues of SCling Wrap, because we will need your help keeping up with what’s ✨fresh✨ at USC Linguistics.

Congratulations, graduates!

Congratulations to the following students, who are graduating from USC with a PhD in Linguistics this year:

• Madhumanti Datta

• Jun Lyu

• Ian Rigby

• Jina Song

Morkovin Endowed Fellowship for Lu

PhD student Yijing Lu has received a Morkovin Endowed Fellowship from the USC Graduate School! The fellowship includes payment of tuition, health and dental insurance, all university mandatory fees, and a stipend for the 2023-2024 academic year. Yijing has also received a USC Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant. Congratulations, Yijing!

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Elango Kumaran will give a talk on “Murrinhpatha number conflation: The limits of feature markedness and *ABA” at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), held at the University of Chicago on Apr 28-30.

Department Events

• Tuesday, May 2 at 11am @ S-Side Story: Saurov Sayed (Auckland University; USC PhD 2017) “Differential Object Marking in Kodava takk: empirical generalizations and theoretical consequences.”

• PhonLunch: no meeting next week

• Psycholing Lab: no meeting next week

• MeaningLab: no meeting next week