FYIs

FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.

FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.

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May 17, 2023

Congratulations

Two different CUNY faculty-led papers are being given at The REEDS Workshop in the Netherlands (Re-examining dialect syntax):  https://dialectsyntax.network/reeds2023/description
https://dialectsyntax.network/reeds2023/program

These are the papers:

1. Prof. Christina Tortora, Carolina Fraga, and William Oliver (MA 2022, GC Ling) Determiner Drop in Vernacular English

2. Prof. William Haddican, Irantzu Epelde, Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare, Basque allocutive allomorphy and the phasal structure of finite embeddings: results from the To2No project

3. Frances Blanchette (Ph.D. 2015, GC Ling), Anymore, this feature varies

May 17, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Puleng Segalo for being awarded the Annual GC Graduate of the Last Decade Award.

May 17, 2023

Nishtha Trivedi

Nishtha Trivedi, was awarded a prestigious Graduate Center Altfest award for a summer internship at the Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies at Rutgers University with Kristen Syrett.

May 16, 2023

Aidan Malanoski

Aidan Malanoski will present their paper Deletion of ordering statements as a multidominance-compatible PF repair mechanism at the workshop How Many Mothers? Multidominance in Syntax. The workshop will take place June 24–25 in Amherst, MA, as part of the 2023 LSA Institute.

May 12, 2023

SEVP COVID-19 Flexibilities Terminated

Effective May 11, 2023, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) ended its Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) guidance, consistent with the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, following the end of the COVID-19 National Emergency on April 10, 2023.

Read the full announcement on the Department of Homeland Security website.

For further information, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for SEVP Stakeholders about COVID-19.

May 8, 2023

Prof. Juliette Blevins and Dr. Michela Cresci

Prof. Juliette Blevins and Dr. Michela Cresci (2014 Ph.D. GC alumni) will present “Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno: Phonetic and phonological implications of *s>h in Valcamonica” at the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53) in Paris, France, June 26 to June 30, 2023.

May 2, 2023

Ekaterina Kistanova

Ekaterina (Katya) Kistanova presented a well-received talk at the Fourth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), June 16–17, 2022.  Her talk was entitled Do articulatory challenges deter heritage speakers growing up as Russian/English bilinguals? Infant Sasha says [nj]et!  Katya's co-author was Professor Emerita Dianne Bradley.