Alums and graduate students return to Pitt to present publications

Above, left to right:  Maritza Nemoga, Dr. Virginia Teran, Dr. Silvia Pisabarro Sarrio; Below: Dr. Matthew John Hadodo, Farrah Neumann, Ben Naismith

A number of Pitt alums and advanced graduate students returned via Zoom this semester to present their journal articles in the courses in which they originated. Based on their diverse interests, these morphology and Spanish dialectology guest presenters discussed their publications on preterit and present perfect variation across multiple tasks in Argentina (Dr. Virginia Terán); variable intensification in Spanish (muy/bien) and Catalan (molt/ben) in Tarragona (Dr. Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió); innovative regularization of preterit andar (e.g., andé) in Bogotá (Maritza Nemogá); perceptions about speaker age, gender, and sexuality pertaining to diminutive use in Madrid (Dr. Matthew John Hadodo); and the productivity of affixes -ness and -acy in L1 and L2 English corpora (Ben Naismith). Farrah Neumann couldn’t join this time due to scheduling conflicts but otherwise would’ve presented her research on morphophonological and automatic alternations in two regions of Spain. Congratulations to these scholars on their journal articles and return presentations, which we hope have inspired our current students to continue projects beyond course completion!