BU Linguistics
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Boston University's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines.
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
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! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.
August 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.
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: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
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.
May 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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.
May 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU— @binghamtonu.bsky.social that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.
April 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU— @binghamtonu.bsky.social that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.
Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations!
Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both!
#phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics
Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both!
#phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics
April 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations!
Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both!
#phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics
Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both!
#phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics
In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai'i!
Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."
Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."
March 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai'i!
Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."
Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."
Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/...
#gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate
#gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate
February 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/...
#gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate
#gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate
Professor Elizabeth Coppock was selected as an invited speaker for the Amsterdam Colloquia!
Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/
Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/
December 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Professor Elizabeth Coppock was selected as an invited speaker for the Amsterdam Colloquia!
Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/
Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/
BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January!
So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...
So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...
December 20, 2024 at 10:44 PM
BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January!
So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...
So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...
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".
journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...
journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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".
journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...
journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...
Another exciting piece of news from the EMNLP conference:
Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper online: Is artificial intelligence still intelligence?
arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482
2/2
#bestpaper #emnlp #compling
Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper online: Is artificial intelligence still intelligence?
arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482
2/2
#bestpaper #emnlp #compling
November 17, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Another exciting piece of news from the EMNLP conference:
Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper online: Is artificial intelligence still intelligence?
arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482
2/2
#bestpaper #emnlp #compling
Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper online: Is artificial intelligence still intelligence?
arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482
2/2
#bestpaper #emnlp #compling
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference!
Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented their poster: "Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers".
1/2
#EMNLP #NLP #conference
Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented their poster: "Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers".
1/2
#EMNLP #NLP #conference
November 17, 2024 at 6:32 PM
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference!
Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented their poster: "Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers".
1/2
#EMNLP #NLP #conference
Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented their poster: "Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers".
1/2
#EMNLP #NLP #conference
Congrats to student Shaked Gabbay who presented her work on Ladino to Northeastern University last week!
Her talk was entitled "Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino".
Her talk was entitled "Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino".
November 13, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Congrats to student Shaked Gabbay who presented her work on Ladino to Northeastern University last week!
Her talk was entitled "Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino".
Her talk was entitled "Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino".
This weekend, three members of BU Linguistics are presenting at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in Miami: Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas, and Kevin Samejon!
Check out the website for their talk information: www.nwavmiami.org
Check out the website for their talk information: www.nwavmiami.org
November 9, 2024 at 1:28 PM
This weekend, three members of BU Linguistics are presenting at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in Miami: Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas, and Kevin Samejon!
Check out the website for their talk information: www.nwavmiami.org
Check out the website for their talk information: www.nwavmiami.org
We are very lucky to have two visiting professors this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Professor Conklin will be speaking at our colloquium on Friday at 3:30. Stop by to hear about her work!
Professor Conklin will be speaking at our colloquium on Friday at 3:30. Stop by to hear about her work!
October 24, 2024 at 4:04 PM
We are very lucky to have two visiting professors this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Professor Conklin will be speaking at our colloquium on Friday at 3:30. Stop by to hear about her work!
Professor Conklin will be speaking at our colloquium on Friday at 3:30. Stop by to hear about her work!
Meet one of our visiting lecturers, Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! 👋
After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department.
You can learn more about him at his website: michael-everdell.github.io.
After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department.
You can learn more about him at his website: michael-everdell.github.io.
October 22, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Meet one of our visiting lecturers, Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! 👋
After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department.
You can learn more about him at his website: michael-everdell.github.io.
After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department.
You can learn more about him at his website: michael-everdell.github.io.
PhD student Lee-Ann Vidal Covas will be giving a talk this Saturday (Oct 19th) at The International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes (IDEOLING).
Her talk title is "Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation."
Her talk title is "Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation."
October 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
PhD student Lee-Ann Vidal Covas will be giving a talk this Saturday (Oct 19th) at The International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes (IDEOLING).
Her talk title is "Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation."
Her talk title is "Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation."
BU Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in Computational Linguistics as part of a cluster hiring initiative led by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS).
Learn more and apply! ling.bu.edu/about/search...
#academicjobs #hiring #professor #computationallinguistics
Learn more and apply! ling.bu.edu/about/search...
#academicjobs #hiring #professor #computationallinguistics
October 15, 2024 at 3:57 PM
BU Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in Computational Linguistics as part of a cluster hiring initiative led by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS).
Learn more and apply! ling.bu.edu/about/search...
#academicjobs #hiring #professor #computationallinguistics
Learn more and apply! ling.bu.edu/about/search...
#academicjobs #hiring #professor #computationallinguistics
PhD student Vasileios Michos is presenting today at the 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)! His talk title is 'Mesoclisis across Modern Greek dialects; proclisis, enclisis, or neither?'
October 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
PhD student Vasileios Michos is presenting today at the 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)! His talk title is 'Mesoclisis across Modern Greek dialects; proclisis, enclisis, or neither?'
We have very exciting news: as of today, Megan Brown-Bousfield has successfully defended her PhD dissertation "CLI and transfer in a trilingual context: Acquisition and development of L3 German grammatical gender".
Congratulations, Megan!
Congratulations, Megan!
September 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
We have very exciting news: as of today, Megan Brown-Bousfield has successfully defended her PhD dissertation "CLI and transfer in a trilingual context: Acquisition and development of L3 German grammatical gender".
Congratulations, Megan!
Congratulations, Megan!