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 […]
Professor Coppock presents at LangCog
Professor Elizabeth Coppock @ LangCog (Harvard University) Title: Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar Abstract: Newar (also known as Nepal Bhasa) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley region of Nepal with a rich classifier system. Classifier-affixed numerals can be reduplicated to produce a distributive reading, in a manner familiar from […]
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/
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