Graduate Research Forum this week!
The first Graduate Research Forum (GRF) of fall 2026 is tomorrow! It will be held October 7th, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Linguistics Department. GRF is our student-run series dedicated to presentations, workshops, practice talks, and other activities. Tomorrow, we are lucky to have not one, but two presenters! First, we have BU’s own Alex Chotai, […]
Kate Lindsey at CUNY Graduate Center
Last month, BU Professor Kate Lindsey presented at the CUNY Graduate Center with a colloquium called “Two Lies and a Truth: Uncovering the Facts about Chuvash Stress”. Congrats!
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 […]
BU Linguistics at the 2026 LSA
We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting! It takes place this year on January 8-11, 2026 in New Orleans. For the full schedule with times, you can filter through the official program by entering “Boston University”.
Special Talk: Janet B. Pierrehumbert – LLMs can pass the Turing Test — are they intelligent?
Dear BU linguistics community, Mark your calendars for a special talk on January 15! LiSLab and tinlab looking forward to welcoming the legendary Janet B. Pierrehumbert (Oxford) for a talk on that day. Although she is world-renowned for her work on phonology, she will be presenting recent work on large language models and their relation […]
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”.
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/
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.