MWSSE (pronounced as ‘muse’) is a hybrid research exchange for graduate students of the Linguistics departments of UIUC, U Chicago, U Indiana, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

The research exchange started Fall 2023 to Spring 2024 between The University of Illinois’ Department of Linguistics and The University of Chicago’s Department of Linguistics participated as the UIUC & UChicago Research Exchange between the members of claSSi (UIUC) and Morph-Syn (UChicago). Since Fall 2024, the research exchange was broadened though to include more Midwestern universities and we are very excited to include U Indiana, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee among our new members! To reflect the more regional character of the exchange, it was also rebranded MWSSE following this expansion.

If you’d like to present this AY25-26 at the other participating universities, please check their schedule here and let Chae Eun know!

The schedule of (past) talks is presented below.

Fall 2023:

Dees, Joshua (UIUC). Evidence of concord between (T)ense and temporal adverbs: A diachronic analysis of Dholuo. Talk at the University of Chicago. Nov 17.

Spring 2023:

Serova, Kutay (UChicago). On the Derivational Routes Shared Exponence. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. March 6.

Aitha, Akshay (UChicago). Morphologically- and Phonologically-Conditioned Exponent Choice in Telugu: Readjustment and the Timing of VI. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. March 20.

Glodstaf, Walther (UIUC). Support from Priming for Case Morphology not being part of the Lexicon. Talk given at they University of Chicago. March 22.

Chen, Xiaobei (UChicago). TBA. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. April 3.

Kurtz, Naomi (UChicago). TBA. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. April 17.

Fall 2024

Sid Bhushan (U Michigan). TBA. Talk given at UChicago. November 1st.

Lucas Fagen (UChicago). The Semantics of just. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. December 10th.

Spring 2025

Chae Eun Lee (UIUC). Definiteness and Animacy in the Realization of Korean Plural Marker -tul: An Experimental Study. Talk given at the University of Chicago. March 14th.