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 publication by Profs. Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson
Check out our newest publication by Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson. Gambarage, Joash & Matthewson, Lisa, (2022) “The Bantu-Salish connection in determiner semantics”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7685
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
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/
“Nobody’s Perfect”: New paper out
New paper out by Bertrand, Aonuki, Chen, Davis, Gambarage, Griffin, Huijsmans, Matthewson, Reisinger, Rullmann, Salles, Schwan, Todorovic, Trotter & Vander Klok (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 2022, 7, 148. Impressive teamwork! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148/pdf
Prof. Abdul-Mageed is the new Canada Research Chair
We are happy to share that our very own Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Computational Linguistics and Information Science) is the new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. To learn more on this: https://research.ubc.ca/fifteen-ubc-researchers-announced-new-and-renewed-ubc-canada-research-chairs https://www.canada.ca/en/research-chairs/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-announces-119-new-and-renewed-canada-research-chairs.html
Marianne Huijsmans receives the Community-University Engagement Support fund
Congratulations to Linguistics PhD student Marianne Huijsmans, who is one of six Faculty of Arts recipients of the Community-University Engagement Support fund, for a community project on “Reviewing, enriching, and sharing an ʔayʔaǰuθəm e-dictionary.” The community partner is Jacqueline Mathieu, of the Klahoose First Nation. The funding is paid directly to community partners, and is […]
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’.
Bryan Gick named AAAS Fellow
Bryan Gick has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of experimental phonetics, notably for advances in multimodal perception and biomechanics. Congratulations, Bryan!
Samuel Akinbo on talking drums
Linguistics grad student Samuel Akinbo’s research on ‘talking drums’ is profiled in an interesting and entertainingly pun-filled discussion on the Language Sciences site. The crucial observation is that the gángan, a drum used in Nigeria, can convey a rich array of linguistic information about spoken Yorùbá.