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 […]
2024 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit
Professor Elizabeth Coppock presented alongside UConn law professor Jill Anderson at the 2024 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit. As a semanticist, Professor Coppock explained how negation interacts with words like “a”, “all”, “and”, and “or” to produce an ambiguity between what linguists call “full negation” and “partial negation”. The professors expanded on how their […]
Professor Neil Myler in “Continua” journal
Congrats to BU Linguistics Professor Neil Myler who just published the FIRST paper in a new journal called “Continua”. His paper is titled: “Imagining Life without Rules of Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition”. You can read the paper and learn more about the journal on the Continua website.
Journal article co-authored by Professor Daniel G. Erker and PhD student Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas
The department is excited to share that a new journal article co-authored by Professor Daniel G. Erker and PhD candidate Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas has been published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics! DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2024-2010Congrats to Lee-Ann and Danny!
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented a poster titled “Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers”. Professor Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, also won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper […]
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Meet our visiting assistant professor: Jenna Conklin
We are very lucky to have two visiting faculty members this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Meet our visiting lecturer: Michael Everdell
Meet our visiting lecturer Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department including Field Methods and Lexical Semantics. He also is managing the SULa (Structures of Understudied Languages) Lab. We are thrilled to have him this year! You can […]
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English
BU Professor Jon Barnes, along with colleagues Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, published an article in “Language and Speech” entitled “Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English”. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00238309241255319