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/
Anthony Yacovone joins us this fall as a new Assistant Professor!
Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023, working with Jesse Snedeker. His research involves the use of methods such as neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling to better understand how language develops, functions, and adapts in complex, real-world environments. He is especially interested in […]
Sophie Hao joins the faculty!
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Professor Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models including interpretability, explainability, and bias. You can learn more about her research interests on her website at notaphonologist.com. Sophie Hao has a remarkable […]
Michael Everdell co-authors a paper in Glossa
Visiting Professor Michael Everdell co-authored a new publication in Glossa: “Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages” https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/10003/
Michael Everdell presents at SALT
Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference! You can view their handout on Mike’s website: https://michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35_handout_2025.pdf
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 […]
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!
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?”.