Department of Linguistics | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Connecticut

UConn Linguistics will be represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 31, held at Nantes Université, France, September 1-4, by the following. Talks: Q. Wu – Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and composition of try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions. Y. Yagi (PhD 2025) – Selective quantification of dynamic alternatives. J. Gajewski & M. […]

UConn will be represented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 29-31 with the following: Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition by Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999), and Uli Sauerland [Talk] Fake […]

Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann presented work on Varieties of Fakeness at the University of Potsdam, Germany, on July 3.

UConn was represented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (April 17-19, 2026) by: Giulio Cifferi Muramatsu with a talk titled Testing the Source of Children’s Conjunctive Interpretation of Disjunction; Zixi Liu with a talk titled Learning to Decode Speaker Uncertainty: Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Comprehension of Modal vs. Sentence-Final Particles; Eli Herbst with a post…

Robin Jenkins successfully defended his dissertation on Comparative explorations in the middle-field. Congratulations, Robin!

Diane Lillo-Martin was elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to its 2025 class of fellows. Congratulations, Diane!

The 5th Tsinghua  Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning on the topic of Modality in Logic and Language will be held on April 3-5. The workshop is co-organized by Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now Tsinghua University). UConn will be represented by: Stefan Kaufmann with a tutorial on Probabilistic semantics for modality (and conditionals), as well […]

Qiushi Chen had a very successful two months with getting two papers published in NLLT and LI respectively.   The first article “Scrambling in the nominal domain: Evidence from the Chichewa DP” has appeared online in February ahead of its print publication in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. The online version can be found here. […]

The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars edition of GLOW in Asia took place in Nagoya, Japan on March 13-15th, hosted by the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with an invited talk by: Daiko Takahashi (PhD 1994, now at Tohoku University). Sluicing in Disguise   … a main […]

Chui Yi (Margaret) Lee successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled How Do Children Acquire Definiteness? An Acquisitional Study of English- and Cantonese-acquiring Children on February 6th. Congratulations, Maggie! Maggie defending:   Dr. Lee cutting the first slice of her well-earned cake:

The 2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place January 8-11 in New Orleans. UConn linguistics was well represented at the conference with talks by: Qiushi Chen. On fission and the cycle: Lessons from Japhug agreement Helen Koulidobrova (PhD 2012, now at Central Connecticut University), Julio v. Aguirre, Jorge Banet, Fernanda […]