| The Linguistics Cluster
The linguistics departments of Cornell and Syracuse universities and the University of Rochester have shared numerous collaborative efforts in the last few years. Graduate students and faculty members regularly participate in events and courses at one another’s institutions. An even tighter collaboration has been initiated by the Mellon-funded Central New York Humanities Corridor: a workshop was held at Syracuse in Spring 2007, with presentations by graduate students from all three campuses.
Other Humanities Corridor initiatives include workshops at Syracuse and Cornell, involving faculty from both institutions. A Fall 2007 visit by noted syntactician Eric Reuland (University of Utrecht) to Rochester involves faculty and student audiences from Cornell and Syracuse universities. In turn, Cornell is hosting a collaborative workshop on Binding Theory in Spring 2008, with Syracuse planning a similar collaboration on Case Theory for Fall 2008.
Formal linguistics is a relatively young discipline where new, cutting-edge work takes place to a good part via unpublished papers, talks, and conferences. The three participating programs have complementary strengths, with Syracuse particularly well known in the fields of syntax, bilingualism, and second-language acquisition and, more recently, in the syntax of Turkish and Persian; Rochester, in formal semantics and psycholinguistics; and Cornell, in such areas as historical linguistics, the syntax of East Asian languages, and phonetics/phonology. Existing links between the programs include a series of annual faculty workshops, jointly sponsored by Cornell and Syracuse, held at the latter since 2005. Collaborative courses are being planned in the syntax/phonology interface between Syracuse and Cornell, and, in semantics, between Rochester and Cornell. |
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Jaklin Kornfilt
Professor
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
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