Congratulations to Jeff Parker, who was recently awarded a fellowship to attend the 2013 Linguistic Institute! The Institute is put on by the Linguistic Society of America every other summer and will take place from June 24-July 9 at the University of Michigan this year.

Jeff is excited to take courses such as "Modeling and Measuring Inflectional Paradigms," which will be co-taught by Greg Stump, Andrew Hippisley and Raphael Finkel, as well as "Structure and Evolution of the Lexicon," taught by Janet Pierrehumbert. These courses will help solidify ideas for Jeff's dissertation which will focus on investigating cognitive reality of relationships between inflected word forms in Russian. The summer institute will provide theoretical and methodological training as well as opportunities to network with leading scholars in the field.