A Retirement Party and Festschrift for Doug Pulleyblank!
On Monday April 28th, the Department threw a surprise retirement party for Doug Pulleyblank, who will be retiring in June 2025 after 34 years as a UBC Linguistics faculty member.
A Q&A with Henry Davis
We asked veteran professor, fieldworker, syntactician and contrarian Henry Davis, who has won multiple awards this year, to reflect on his recent work and experiences.
Exciting new publications from the ISRL
The Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL), UBC is proud to share some exciting new publications in flagship journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports. See below to learn more. Shamei, A., Sóskuthy, M., Stavness, I. et al. Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts’ speech. Sci Rep 13, 8231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34854-w. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34854-w de Boer, […]
New paper out
Here’s a new publication to start your new year! Why Plain Futurates are Different by Hotze Rullmann, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, and Neda Todorović Linguistic Inquiry (2022) 54 (1): 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00435 Here’s the direct link: https://direct.mit.edu/ling/article-abstract/54/1/197/102504/Why-Plain-Futurates-are-Different?redirectedFrom=fulltext
New issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods published
A new issue (Vol. 4, Issue 2) of Semantic Fieldwork Methods, a journal by Lisa Matthewson and Burton Strang has been published. Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol. 4 Issue 2 Second half of a special issue on ‘Collecting semantic data: A sample of individual practices’ Check here for more: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/storyboards/issue/current
New publication by Chris Hammerly
A new paper authored by Chris Hammerly has just come out. Check out the details below. Title: Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe Authors: Christopher Hammerly, Adrian Staub, Brian Dillon Journal: Cognition Date: August 2022 Short Blurb: (How) do we construct the meaning of a sentence before it is complete? A […]
New publication
Another exciting paper: Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic and Michael Schwan 2022. Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341 Congratulations to the research team! https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/6341/
Special issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods is out
A special issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods, edited by our very own Prof. Lisa Matthewson and Prof. Strang Burton, has just been published. The journal is free to access; here is the link. https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/storyboards/issue/view/183074
Oksana and Muhammad’s research featured in Pithy Papers
Language Sciences has organized Pithy Papers, a series of brief descriptions of UBC Language Sciences recent research. The inaugural installment features work by Oksana Tkachman on conventionalization in sign languages and by Muhammad Abdul-Mageed on ‘micro-dialects’.