Professor Kate Lindsey at ALT-2026
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open! https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
BU Linguistics at SULA-TripleA conference
BU Linguistics at SULA-TripleA conference in Vancouver (May 12-15): Two of our department’s alumni will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year https://blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/program/: Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown): Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree https://sites.google.com/view/yuhao-dai/home Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former […]
Rebecca Dufie Bonney at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled “African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research” this past February in Los Angeles. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University). You can read a summary of her paper below: This paper examines how African heritage languages, such as Yoruba and Akan, […]
Liza Sulkin & Chloe Guttmann at LINC
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) at Florida State University. This year’s conference theme was “Beyond Fracture”. Both presented at the “Dialogues at a crossroads” panel.
Professor Myler to present at CRISSP
Professor Neil Myler @ CRISSP CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Lecturer: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Morphomes, look-ahead, and what to do about them: Illustrations from Romance Date & time: 10–11–13 March 2026, 12.00–15.00 (10 March), 10.00–13.00 (11 March), 13.00–16.00 […]
BU Linguistics at the 2026 LSA
We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting! It takes place this year on January 8-11, 2026 in New Orleans. For the full schedule with times, you can filter through the official program by entering “Boston University”.
Professor Elizabeth Coppock at University of Buenos Aires
Professor Elizabeth Coppock at University of Buenos Aires This week, Prof. Coppock represented BU at the University of Buenos Aires with her talk “Unifying Dependent and Independent Numeral Reduplication in Newar”. This was part of the “Workshop on Form and Meaning”.
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025 Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU at el Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas (Workshop of friends of Yutoaztecan languages) this October. At the conference, he shared his […]
Professor Neil Myler at University of São Paolo
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation. Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24 in the “Syntactic Pathways to Morphology” online lecture series! This series is held by São Paolo’s Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human […]
Professor Elizabeth Coppock at Sinn und Bedeutung
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled “Unifying arithmetic and mereological division”. The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: https://vicom.info/sub30-program-2/