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 […]
Professor Kate Lindsey awarded fellowship at the National Humanities Center
We’d like to congratulate our professor Kate Lindsey for being accepted as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2026–2027 academic year! She will be working on her book, “A Speaker-Focused Grammar of Ende, A Language of Papua New Guinea.” She is the first linguist to receive this fellowship since 1993!
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 […]