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/
Ousmane Cisse defends his dissertation prospectus
Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus! His dissertation is based on the preliminary results of his second qualifying paper (QP2). As part of this work, he is investigating graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. His data is from the NEH Mandinka […]
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
Liza Sulkin defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation. Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and assigned female at birth (AFAB) non-binary (NB) people.
BU Ling at ACAL 2025
Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.
Work on VO compound morphology by Vasilis Michos
PhD student Vasilis Michos’ work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume! You can read his work at https://ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_PLIRI/MEG_44_187_201.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. […]
Congratulations to our 2025 graduates
This past weekend, we celebrated our undergraduate, master’s, graduate certificate, and doctoral graduates! Pictured left to right is Professor Neil Myler, recently graduated Dr. Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas, Professor Danny Erker, recently graduated Dr. Kevin Samejon, and Professor Kate Lindsey.
Andre Batchelder-Schwab awarded Lewis and Clark field scholarship
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding to continue his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! To learn more about the scholarships, see https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research
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 […]