International Quantitative Morphology Meeting

Jeff in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade

Jeff in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade

Jeff Parker and Andrea Sims just returned from Belgrade, Serbia, where they presented a paper at the First International Quantitative Morphology Meeting. The trip had a rough start, including a 26-hour travel delay that involved each being stranded in a different airport. Nonetheless, they made it to Belgrade in time to see some interesting talks, and got to show off some pretty cool graphs about the implicative structure of Russian and Greek nouns.

Slides from the talk: On the interaction of implicative structure and type frequency in inflectional systems (PDF)

Lauren Ressue earns Ph.D.

Andrea Sims and Lauren Ressue

Andrea Sims and Lauren Ressue

The Slavic Linguistics Lab has produced its first Ph.D.! Lauren Ressue  defended her dissertation, Reciprocity in Russian: an investigation of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interfaces in April. Andrea Sims (Slavic) and Judith Tonhauser (Linguistics) co-chaired the dissertation committee. Lauren was officially hooded at Ohio State’s spring graduation ceremony.

Abstract of Lauren’s dissertation

Congratulations, Dr. Ressue!