Weekly Digest, 9/30/22

Happy final day of September, and hello to October! Make sure you remember to get your flu shots before November!

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Open-rank syntax search

The department is searching for a syntactician (open rank) to join the faculty starting in the 2023-24 Academic Year. Please share the news! More information is available here.

A reminder that applications are still open for the postdoctoral position in syntax, with more information about the position and application requirements here.

Inked ✍️

• Zuzanna Fuchs. 2022. “Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing.” The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements. Frontiers of Psychology.Link to paper.

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Jun Lyu gave a talk titled “Chinese reflexive ta-ziji and discourse factors” at the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NAACL) held at The Ohio State University on Sept. 24 & 25.

Upcoming Events

• Monday, 10/3, 1pm @ PhonLunch: Sean Foley, TBA

• Monday 10/3, 2:10pm @ S-Side Story: Nelly Marutyan on “Mood and Modality in Control Clauses (data from Eastern Armenian and Russian)”

• Tuesday 10/4, 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Katie Kennedy on “Workshopping Screening Project: Event Structures and Alternations in Causative Light Verb Sentences”

• Wednesday 10/5, 9am @ Linguistics Teaching Reading Group: Course design mini-series part 2: Pitching a course idea