Author Archives: CASTL News

There is a debate in the literature as to how directly phonology accesses syntactic category information. Positions have been staked out as to whether the access is direct or indirect. Dragana Šurkalović’s new thesis, to be defended on Friday, January … Continue reading →

Anna has submitted her thesis, “Syntactic representations in the bilingual mind: The role of executive function and pragmatics in cross-language priming” — so that’s three defenses in the pipeline!

Congratulations to Andrea Márkus for filing her CASTL PhD thesis, entitled “Taming the Hungarian (in)transitivity zoo. Undiagnosed species and a complete derivation of the morphosyntactic patterns.” By my count this bring the number of completed CASTL PhDs to 22!

We’re only still recovering from the last doctoral defense, and a new CASTL dissertation has just been filed! The new one is entitled “The No-Reference Hypothesis: A Modular Approach to the Syntax-Phonology Interface” — so there should be another exciting defense in … Continue reading →

The deadline for applying for the CASTL-FISH PhD position has been extended to June 23rd.

In case you hadn’t already heard, CASTL has advertised a PhD position attached to the CASTL-FISH research group. This was announced on the Linguist List back in May, and is also on Jobbnorge, with a deadline of June 16th.  However, … Continue reading →

We’re in Athens to discuss the Road Ahead for syntax, see Gillian’s blog for details

Mark your calendars! Alex Pfaff will be defending his PhD dissertation, Adjectival and Genitival Modification in Definite Noun Phrases in Icelandic: A Tale of Outsiders and Inside Jobs on June 22nd against two opponents, Halldór Sigurðsson and Martina Wiltschko. See if they … Continue reading →

CASTL researcher Kristine Bentzen, together with colleagues Biret Ánne Bals Baal and Johanna Johansen Ijäs, has organized a network of researchers working on children’s acquisition of Sámi languages. Read more in Nyheter (in Norwegian).

Congratulations to Rosmin, whose book Head Movement in Syntax is now “in production” with John Benjamins, in the Lingvistik Aktuell series.