Archive for the ‘Undergraduate’ Category

Congratulations Lauren Friedman

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Lauren Friedman’s Honors Thesis received the Virginia Voss award from the Honors Program and the Matt Alexander Prize from the Linguistics Department due to its outstanding quality.

The thesis, entitled “The loss of Old English Null Expletive hit/it“, explores the loss of the null expletive it, or rather the changes that led to the requirement of an overt expletive hit/it in constructions which lack an overt thematic subject in Spec, IP of a clause. From the descriptions and analyses of OE considered in this study, along with an analysis of EPP (Extended Projection Principle) properties in OE (Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 1998, Holmberg 2005, Jaeggli & Safir 1989), the thesis argues that OE is in stage 3: null true expletive it is possible across paradigms while null thematic and null quasi-arguments are restricted in use.  Additionally, I contend that despite the possibility for null subjects in OE, the EPP is checked is checked by Move XP (i.e. insertion of an overt category in the subject [Spec, IP] position).

Lauren has been an active member of the department and the undergraduate club over the last several years. She leaves the University of Michigan to attend graduate school in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Congratulations and good luck, Lauren!

Linguistics Club Event: Translation and Interpretation

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The Linguistics Club is hosting a panel discussion with three
professional translators/interpreters from the University of Michigan
Health Services:
Fawzi El-Shafei (Arabic-English)
Maria Militzer (English-Spanish)
Linda Steinke (Arabic-English)

We will also hear from Helen Merenda, an undergraduate in the UROP
program, about her German-English translation project.

As always, cookies, brownies, and coffee will be forcefully offered.

Thursday, 17 April 2008
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Lorch Hall (room TBA)

Conference talk: The Syntax of ne-cliticization in Italian

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Kate Arcangeli (Linguistics, 2008) presented a paper at the 2nd annual Cornell Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium held March 8-9.   Her talk was titled, “The Syntax of ne-Cliticization in Italian.”

Linguistics Club Event: My Fair Lady

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Scrabble tournament

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

David Pesetsky discusses Linguistics and Music

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Linguistics Club meeting, 12/5: Scrabble Wednesday

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

(1)  How many Scrabble points do you get for the word UNWIND?

(2)  Among CARBOHYDRATES, CINDERELLA, and LINGUISTICS CLUB, which is

most FABULOUS ?

 

 Care to find out?  Join the Linguistics Club this Wednesday for a

little pre-exam get-together over Scrabble, Apples to Apples, Boggle,

and other wordish games.  Get your spelling on at Lauren Friedman’s

house, starting at 7:30.  Come hungry!*

 

Linguistics Club Game Night

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

7:30 - 10:00 PM

1336 Geddes Ave, Apt 2

RSVP to lafried@umich.edu

Linguistics Club Meeting: MoCAD

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Linguistics Club Meeting: School House Rock

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Linguistics Club Meeting: Meet Your Professors

Thursday, October 4th, 2007