The Understanding Obviation workshop was held at McGill University from October 4-6 (co-organized by MIT alum Jessica Coon – PhD ‘10). MIT Linguistics was well represented in the workshop with the following talks:
- Peter Grishin (PhD ‘23 and current post-doc) and Elise Newman (faculty) presented a talk based on joint work with Giovanni Roversi (current graduate student) entitled: Obviation in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey: Dependent case?
- Jessica Coon (PhD ‘10) – with Stefan Keine, and Juan Vázquez Álvarez presented a talk entitled: Animacy and obviation in Chol
The workshop was a great success and was full of interesting crosslinguistic questions and parallels (and perhaps not-so-parallels). Congratulations to all presenters for their work!