NYU Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics has moved. As of Monday, June 25th 2007 we are located at 726 Broadway, 7th Floor.

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.

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.

Two of our linguistics majors, Amanda Rysling and Ethan Mandel, just received awards from the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund. Amanda got funding for her project "Computational Principles Underlying Poetic Structures," supervised by Ray Dougherty, and Ethan will be collecting data in Okinawa for his work on phonological reconstruction of Proto-Japanese, "The Search for Japanese Roots: A reconstruction of the Amami Ryukyuan Dialect," under the supervision of John Costello. Congratulations!

Some recent publications by NYU linguists:

Tom Leu, "What for Internally"--in Syntax (2008)
Chris Barker, "Parasitic Scope"--in Linguistics and Philosophy (2008)
Chris Collins, Simanique Moody, and Paul Postal, "An AAE Camouflage Construction"--in Language (2008)

Congratulations!