grants

Student grant and fellowship awards

Morphology group members have been racking up grants and fellowships this month!

Noah Diewald was awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant and also a grant from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research for his dissertation work on Wao Terero (Ecuador) classifiers systems. He also received a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship from the University of Wisconsin for study of Kichwa (Ecuador).

Connor Rouillier was awarded a Summer Graduate Research Award from the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at OSU. He will be mentored by Nikole Patson on his project Delimiting the Boundary between Object File Representation and Ensemble Representation of Plural Objects and Its Interaction with Morphological Form, part of his larger project on individuation as a morphosemantic properties of dialectal Arabic nouns and verbs.

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.

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.