Mayfest 2024 (LING)
Mayfest 2024: The Science of Linguistic Diversity
Held on May 3rd and 4th, Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. This year Mayfest will celebrate Maria (Masha) Polinsky. The event, titled "The Science of Linguistic Diversity", will bring together over a dozen syntacticians and semanticists who have worked closely with Masha on fieldwork, heritage languages, cross-linguistic diversity, and experimental psycholinguistics. It will also feature two round table discussions on "Experimental work and fieldwork on understudied and heritage languages" and "The Mayan-Austronesian Connection." Details will be posted on the conference website, as they become available.
Maša Bešlin / PhD Student in Linguistics, University of Maryland (panel moderator)
Irina Burukina / Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (panelist)
Lauren Clemens / Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Albany (panelist)
Jessica Coon / Professor of Linguistics, McGill University (panelist)
Zuzanna Fuchs / Assistant Professor of Linguistics, USC (panelist)
Vera Gribanova / Associate Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University (speaker)
Aron Hirsch / Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland (speaker)
Ruth Kramer / Associate Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University (panelist)
Idan Landau / Professor of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University (speaker)
Ellen Lau / Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland (speaker)
Ora Matushansky / Director of Research, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (speaker)
Polina Pleshak / PhD Student in Linguistics, University of Maryland (panelist)
Eric Potsdam / Professor of Linguistics, University of Florida (speaker)
Rodrigo Ranero / Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA (panelist)
Gregory Scontras / Associate Professor of Language Science, UC Irvine (panelist)
Juan Uriagereka / Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland (panel moderator)
Ming Xiang / Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago (speaker)
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