Morphological Systems Group organizes AIMM5

 

Screenshot of AIMM5 GatherTown spaceScreenshot of AIMM5 poster session in GatherTown

We got to welcome more than 160 morphologists from around the world to OSU (virtually) for the 5th American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM5) last weekend. It was four busy but exciting days of stimulating talks and interesting discussion. (Check out this picture of one of the poster sessions that took place in Gather.Town!) We hope that everyone enjoyed the conference. We certainly did!

It was also an opportunity to show off some of the morphological research happening here at OSU. The program included five presentations from our group:

  • Martha Booker Johnson and Andrea D. Sims, “Using word vectors to investigate semantic transparency cross-linguistically”
  • Kyle Maycock and Andrea D. Sims, “Albanian second-position clitics as edge inflection: Evidence from cumulative exponence in the noun phrase”
  • Connor Rouillier, “The effect of event structure on subject-verb agreement in Najdi Arabic”
  • Noah Diewald, “Wao Terero lexical suffixes: Realization at the lexical semantic-discourse interface”
  • Micha Elsner and Andrea D. Sims, “Analogical modeling of morphology for L1 effects in language contact”

There were also presentations from OSU “friends of the morphology lab” Brian Joseph, Shuan Karim, and John Grinstead (with colleagues).

We look forward to AIMM6, to be held at the University of California, San Diego in 2023!

AIMM5 program

The program for the 5th American International Morphology Meeting (August 26-29, 2021) is now available. Check it out on the conference website. The program features invited keynote talks by Dunstan Brown (University of York), Gabriela Caballero (University of California, San Diego), Laura Kalin (Princeton University), and Ryan Lepic (Gallaudet University), as well as 36 regular talks and 24 posters.

AIMM5

We’re excited to announce the 5th American International Morphology Meeting, which will be hosted virtually by OSU Linguistics, August 26th-29th. Check out the details on the conference website.

Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition Workshop

Some pictures from the Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition workshop, held July 22-23, 2017 at the 2017 Linguistic Institute (University of Kentucky).

Check out the workshop program. A big thanks to all of the speakers and more than 100 attendees for making it an intellectually stimulating two days. Thanks also to our sponsors, especially the National Science Foundation.

Grad student symposium

On February 18, 2017 the Slavic Linguistics Forum and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (DSEELC) held the first annual DSEELC Linguistics Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium was “Language Away from the Homeland.”

With Prof. Renee Perelmutter (University of Kansas) giving the keynote speech on “Multiglossia and Globalization in the Online Discourse of Russian-speaking Israelis”, eight student presenters coming from all over the country, and participation from several departments at OSU, the event was a great success.

The event was organized by DSEELC graduate students Katja Kibler, Katya Rouzina and Hope Wilson. Congratulations on the successful conference!

OSU at the Slavic Linguistics Society meeting

sls2016_osupeopleOhio State was well represented at the most recent Slavic Linguistics Society meeting, held in September at the University of Toronto.

Faculty member Andrea Sims gave a plenary talk titled “Inflectional systems and the dynamic organization of the lexicon”. Several of our awesome current and former students also got in on the action, presenting their research. Shown at left (from left to right): Jeff Parker (Ph.D. 2016, now at Brigham Young University), Kate White (Ph.D. 2015, now at Rice University), Katya Rouzina (Ph.D. in progress), Andrea Sims, and Rob Reynolds (M.A. 2011, now at University of Tromsø). Not shown: Bojan Belić (Ph.D. 2005, now at University of Washington).

It was a great showing for the Slavic linguistics program! And a fun reunion. (But maybe not the best choice to have our picture taken in front of the projection screen…:)

Check out the slides from Andrea’s talk on her academia.edu page.

NSF grant for LSA Institute workshop

Andrea Sims and University of Arizona colleague Adam Ussishkin have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to organize a two-day workshop entitled “Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition”. The workshop will take place next summer, at the Linguistic Society of America’s 2017 Linguistic Institute at the University of Kentucky, and will feature a number of speakers as well as a poster session.

Check out the workshop website.

Undergraduate Slavic Linguistics Day

Undergraduate Slavic linguistics event (2015)On October 7, the Slavic Linguistics Forum held a special session for undergraduate students interested in Slavic languages and linguistics. As the Slavic Department’s twitter feed observed, it was a full house, with 35 attendees!

We were excited to participate, with Andrea Sims leading an information session about research opportunities for undergraduates at Ohio State. (But not surprisingly, the show stopper was Daniel Collins’s talk on the linguistics of vampirism!)

Thanks to the Slavic Linguistics Forum leadership — Katya Rouzina, Hope Wilson, and Ryan Perkins — for organizing this great event.

If you are an undergraduate at OSU who is interested in linguistics and looking for a research opportunity, contact Andrea Sims to learn more.