Najoung Kim selected as keynote speaker
Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP 2025)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled “What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?” You can read more about the conference at RepL4NLP 2025. […]
MorphoMO workshop in Montreal
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled “The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved”. He writes, “Many Romance languages exhibit a morphomic pattern dubbed PYTA (for {perfecto/pretérito} y tiempos afines—see especially Maiden 2018: Ch 4). Spanish exhibits a striking instance of this phenomenon. No matter […]
Liza Sulkin presenting at LavLang31
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang31) this summer in Manchester! Her talk is on the preliminary results of her dissertation work. LavLang is the only conference dedicated to queer linguistics/language & sexuality. She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with […]
Kate Lindsey to present at SLE
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled “Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi”. Many congrats to Professor Lindsey!
Becca Wheeler poster talk at ICLDC
In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai’i. Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a very popular poster talk titled “Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization.” Her project was borne out of Prof. O’Connor’s course on Language Revitalization. […]
Professor Coppock presents at SOLID Georgetown
Professor Coppock presented with Law Professor Jill Anderson (University of Connecticut) last Friday at a one-day symposium on legal interpretation and data (“SOLID”) at Georgetown. https://solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ They presented a talk entitled “‘Any’ problems: Lexical Vagueness or Structural Ambiguity?”.
Aditya Yedetore presents at Brown
In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI, Neuro, and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled “Classical computation in connectionist models” and you can read more about it and watch a recording here: brown-ancor.github.io
Professor Neil Myler presents at a CRISSP seminar
This month, Professor Neil Myler presented at the CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) seminar on Theme Vowels, Categories, and Categorization. His talk was titled “Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be)” If you couldn’t make it, he also did a debrief that you can watch […]
Prof. Coppock delivers keynote address at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024
Prof. Coppock was among the keynote speakers at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024. Her talk was entitled “Metrology and Mereology”. Download the slides from the talk here. Here is the abstract: This talk is about metrology and mereology. Of these, the latter is more familiar to formal semanticist, and, in conjunction with event semantics, has been of use in […]
2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) talks and posters
BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January! Talks: Robert Bayley, Xinye Zhang, Daniel Erker, Rafael Orozco and Gregory Guy: Subject pronoun expression and heritage languages: The effects of language and dialect contact. ADS Morphosyntax session, January […]