NYU Linguistics

The department will hold an Open House for admitted and wait-listed prospective graduate students on February 29 - March 1 (Friday-Saturday), 2008. Prospective students should arrive on February 28 (Thursday). The organized program starts Friday morning.

Sunday will be free for enjoying New York City. The department will provide accommodation and contribute to the travel expenses of those admitted to the program.

The Department of Linguistics at New York University seeks an assistant professor to fill a tenure-track position in Prosodic Phonology, beginning September 1, 2008, pending administrative and budgetary approval.

Applicants should have a strong background in both theoretical linguistics and in the relevant laboratory techniques. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. We seek candidates with expertise in prosodic phonology or intonation and in their interface with syntax, semantics, morphology and/or sociolinguistics.

Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and a sample of work to

Prosodic Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, New York University
726 Broadway, 7th floor
New York, NY 10003.

Review of applications will begin on February 22nd, 2008; applications received after that may be considered if the position is not filled. For information about the Linguistics department, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/.

For further information about this position, please contact Professor Alec Marantz .

New York University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

Jeremy Rafal (CUNY) will be talking about Pseudoclefts in Ilokano at the Syntax Brown Bag on February 22nd. The talk will be at 1:30 in room 703 (726 Broadway). The abstract for his talk can be found here.

Joel Wallenberg (UPenn) will be giving the syntax brown bag at 1:30 on Friday, March 7th. The title of his talk is "Generalizing Holmberg's Generalization: scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective" and the abstract can be found here.

Participation in the open house is by advance arangement only.
Please contact Chris Barker <chris.barkernyu.edu> with any
questions about the open house.

Friday morning, 29 February, 2008

9:00-10:00am Breakfast and Introductions
10:00-11:00am Presentation on department and program by Alec Marantz and Chris Barker
11:00-11:45am Subfield meeting: Phonetics & Phonology
12:00-12:45pm Subfield meeting: Sociolinguistics

12:45-2:30pm Lunch locally (graduate students lead groups of at most 10)
2:30-3:15pm Subfield meeting: Neurolinguistics
3:30-4:15pm Subfield meeting: Syntax
4:15-5:00pm More time for meetings

5:00-6:00pm Reception at Department

7:00-9:00 Department-provided dinner at 19 University Place.

9:00pm+:Drinks with Grads

Saturday morning, 1 March, 2008

9:00-10:30am Breakfast and informal meetings
10:30-11:15am Subfield meeting: Semantics
12:00pm+ Groups off on tours of New York, Brooklyn, etc.

Newly admitted students are encouraged to attend at least two but no more than three of the subfield meetings, using the remaining time to make appointments to speak with professors and current graduate students. The purpose of the subfield meetings is to introduce the professors, graduate students, and lab facilities most relevant to the main subdisciplines emphasized at NYU.

Grad Student Kara Becker was featured in today's AM New York (Feb. 25, 2008). The story, about New York City English, can be found online here. Over 300,000 copies of AM New York are distributed daily. Congrats Kara!