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Student achievements (and personal announcements of interest to the entire program) are listed here. Please notify William McClure if you have something to add.

AUGUST 2008

• Ji Young Shim will speak at 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics (ECKL) in London, United Kingdom on Aug. 7 - 9, 2008.

JULY 2008

• Ji Young Shim and Marcel den Dikken will speak at the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18) in Seoul, Korea on July 21-26, 2008. The program will be available at http://www.cil18.org/home.htm

JUNE 2008

• Jeremy Rafal will give a talk at The 15th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA15) in Australia in Sydney from June 30 - July 2. The program will be available at http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/. The title of Jeremy's talk is "Reconsidering applicative constructions: Evidence for low and even 'higher' base-generated applicatives in Ilokano"

APRIL 2008

• Congraulations to Marisa Monteleone for being awarded the Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship 2008-2009

FEBRUARY 2008

• Jeremy Rafal and Christina Torotora (with Paola Benincá) will speak at this year's Penn Linguistics Colloquium on Feburary 22-24. Details can be found here.

JANUARY 2008

• Stephanie Solt and Rachel Szekely will all speak at this year's LSA Meeting. Details can be found here (Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora are speaking as well).

DECEMBER 2007

• Congratulations to Ingrid Heidrick, Erin Quirk, Lucia Pozzan, Jeremy Rafal, Yana Pugach, and Meiko Sperbeck on receiving the Doctoral Student Research Grant. 

• Nazik Dinçtopal, Rita Pasqui, Lucia Pozzan, and Susan Schweitzer will speak at this year's SUNY/CUNY/NYU Mini-conference to be held on December 1 at NYU. Details of the workshop can be found here.

• Mamori Sugita will speak at Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 4 (TEAL) to be held on December 30 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her title is "The semantics of Japanese experiential -te iru." Details of the workshop (which is being held on conjunction with Asia GLOW) can be found here.

NOVEMBER 2007

• Ji Young Shim and Marcel den Dikken will give a talk at The 17th JK Linguistics Conference at UCLA (November 9-11, 2007). Bill McClure is speaking at a pre-conference workshop on J/K Semantics and Pragmatics (the day before).

OCTOBER 2007

• The Appalachian English project has been featured in the RF Report 2006. Click on the image to see the page in PDF.

• Ji Young Shim will be speaking at Stony Brook Brown Talks on Oct. 31. The title of her talk is "Licensing Resultative Secondary Predicates (in Korean)".

• Mamori Sugita will give a talk at the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference at the University of Kansas (October 26-28, 2007). Her title is "Japanese experiential -te iru as an individual-level construction".

• Ji Young Shim and Marcel den Dikken will give a talk at NELS 38 at the University of Ottawa (October 26-28). The title of their talk is "The Tense of Resultatives - The Case of Korean"

• Both Mamori Sugita and Chris Warnasch will be presenting their works at the first meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle to be held in Tucson October 19-21. The title of Mamori's talk is "Japanese experiential -teiru as an individual level construction" and the title of Chris's talk is "Aspect and interpretation Outside of full clauses." Chris's paper was awarded "the best student abstract awards". Conference details can be found here.

SEPTEMBER 2007

• Stephanie Solt, Susan Schweitzer, and Lucia Pozzan will all be attending this year's Sinn und Bedeutung to be held at the University of Norway in Oslo (September 20-22). Stephanie has had a paper accepted while Susan and Lucia are alternates. Details of the conference including the program can be found at the conference web site.

• Shukhan Ng and Janet Dean Fodor will give a talk at International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technologyand on September 21-22. The title of their talk is "Use your headedness: An exercise in psycholinguistic exploitation"

• Lidiya Tornyova has been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for 2007-2009. The project title is "Acquisition of Questions in Bulgarian and English. Virginia Valian is the co-PI for this grant.

• The Program in Linguistics is happy to welcome the following new students:
MA Program
Maayan Barkan, Michele De Goeas-Malone, Adam Faulkner, Katherine Hawkland, I-ling Hsu, David Manning, Mirella Piccone, Purnima Thakur, and Volha Ward

Ph.D. Program
Nazik Dinctopal, Teresa Fredericks, Marisa Genuardi, Oussama Haddad, Sonya Jaramillo, Sarah Kresh, Jian Li, Edmund O'Neill, Louise Talijan, and Janneke Van Hofwegen

AUGUST 2007

• Stephanie Solt will present a paper titled "Few more and many fewer: complex quantifiers based on many and few" at this year's ESSLLI workshop on Quantifier Modification to be held in Dublin, Ireland.

JUNE 2007

• Mieko Sperbeck and Marisa Monteleone will present a poster titled "Speeded discrimination of American vowels by experienced Japanese late L2 learners" with Winifred Strange and her colleagues in the Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab at 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4-8 June 2007.

MAY 2007

• Congratulations to this year's graduates: Eulalia Canals (PhD), Michael Horwitz (PhD), Naomi Lapidus Shin (PhD), and (Kaushi) Muditha Perera (MA). Graduation is on May 24 at 11am at the Manhattan Center (311 West 34th Street).

• Iglika Stoyneshka will present "Prosody and ambiguity resolution in Bulgarian" at Formal Approaches to Salvic Linguistics 16 (at Stony Brook, May 4-6).

• Alexia Ioannidou and Marcel den Dikken will commentors on a paper presented at the Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics to be held at MIT on May 20-22, 2007.

• Kaori Furuya will be giving a talk entitled "Japanese bare noun phrases as DPs" at the Fourth Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (at Harvard on May 18-20).

APRIL 2007

• Congratulations to Stephanie Solt who has received the Carole & Morton Olshan Dissertation Fellowship and Shukhan Ng who received a Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship, both for the 2007-2008 academic year. Also, congratuations to Yukiko Koizum for returning Writing Fellow at Baruch for 2007-2008.

• Rachel Szekely and Stephanie Solt have notes appearing in the latest edition of Snippets (number 15) available here.

• Daniel Rubino and Prof. Loraine Obler (both of Linguistics) along with I. Anema, B O'Connor, M. Goral, J. Hyunb, P.S. Conner, and R. Kuckuk (all of Speech and Hearing) will be giving a paper at the UWM Linguistics Symposium on Formulaic Language on April 18-21, 2007. Their title is "Aging & idiom production: Are idioms compositional, non-compositional or both?." The conference web site is here.

• Daniel Rubino will be speaking in the Doctoral Seminar Series at the University of South Florida. His title is "Is there schizophasia?: Language and thought disorder in schizophrenia."

MARCH 2007

• Kaori Furuya and Ji Young Shim will be speaking at the 2007 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2007), March 8-11 at Georgetown University. In addition, Natalie Batmanian and Virginia Valian will be giving a paper, and Loraine Obler and several students from Speech and Hearing will be giving a colloquium on "The role of 'little words' in agrammaticism." The complete conference schedule is here.

• Rachel Varra, Ana Ortigosa (current post-doc), Naomi Lapidus Shin (PhD 2006), and Daniel Erker (MA 2006) will all be speaking at the XXI Conference on Spanish in the US, to be held at George Mason university and the University of Maryland on March 15-18. The conference website is here.

• Lidiya Tornyova (along with Arild Hestvik, Richard Schwartz, Diana Almodovar, Tracy Love, and David Swinney--all of Speech and Hearing) will be giving a talk entitled "Binding theory and syntactic movement are dissociated in Specific Language Impairment" at this year's CUNY Conference (at UCSD on March 29-31). In addition, students and faculty from Linguistics and Speech and Hearing are associated with four different posters. Program details can be found here.

FEBRUARY 2007

• Ji Young Shim (Get it? Got it!) and Kaori Furuya (DP Hypothesis for Japanese) are presenting their papers at 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, on Febrary 23-25 at University of Pennsylvania. The schedule and abstracts can be found here.

JANUARY 2007

• Ji Young Shim will present her paper at 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea in Seoul, on January 19-20, 2007. Prof. Marcel den Dikken is an invited speaker of this conference.

• Stephanie Solt and Tomoyuki Yabe will present papers at the LSA 2007 Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA, on 4-7 January. Stephanie's title is "A degree-based semantics for many and few." Tomo's title is "Applicative constructions via the remerge of a functional preposition." The preliminary program is available at here.