Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Study experimental syntax and get rich!

Well, maybe you won't get rich, exactly, but it seems like a good way to get a job! This year's hiring season has been very good to some of our current and former lab members:

Savi Namboodiripad has accepted a 2-year Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship starting this fall, followed by a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019, both in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Gustavo Guajardo has accepted a position as a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University in the UK.

Rodolfo Mata has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting this fall at Western Washington University, where his primary responsibilities will be in teaching and research on Spanish linguistics. He is currently working at Colby College.

Emily Morgan has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019 in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University.

Congratulations to all!

Sunday, April 2, 2017

UCSD → CUNY @ MIT

UCSD was out in force at the CUNY 2017 conference on sentence processing, held this year at MIT. Many lab affiliates/alums/friends participated, including Savi Namboodiripad, Boyoung Kim, Grant Goodall, Till Poppels, Emily Morgan, Shota Momma and Adam Morgan. Video of talks is available here, and many slides and posters are available here.

Boyoung and Grant's poster (available at: https://osf.io/h3vb7/ )
Savi's poster (available at https://osf.io/tjcgy/)
What the world looks like once you leave San Diego
Fabled main entrance to MIT on Mass Ave

Festschrift for Sandy Chung

A festschrift in honor of Sandy Chung was made public recently, and Grant has an article on D-linking and resumptive pronouns in wh-dependencies, featuring an overview of work he did with Bethany Keffala and Alex Stiller:

  • Goodall, G. (2017). Referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies. In Ostrove, Jason; Kramer, Ruth; & Sabbagh, Joseph (eds.), Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung.  
                    https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8255v8sc#page-72