The 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57) was hosted by by the City University of New York Graduate Center Linguistics Program October 16-18, 2026. Our alum Athulya Aravind (PhD 2018)[Yale University] was invited as a keynote speaker and gave a talk, entitled “Agreement, anti-agreement and the developing mind”.
The following current students and alums presented their work:
- Zhouyi Sun (5th year): Tigrinya gradable verbs: When verbalizers comparativize
- Zhouyi Sun (5th year), Vlad Orlov (3rd year), and Oddur Snorrason: Concealed pied-piping and 3/4 effects in degree questions in Russian and beyond
- Vincent Rouillard (PhD 2023)[Université Laval]: Deriving Strong Polarity Sensitivity and Locality Effects from Trivalence
- Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok (PhD 2019)[Bo?aziçi University], and Nikos Angelopoulos: Turkish passives have implicit arguments
- Suyeon Yun (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Perceptual similarity in a single grammar: Repair choice in Mongolian loanwords
- Coppe van Urk (PhD 2015)[Queen Mary University of London]: Outermost wins in Dinka and the theory of nonconcatenative morphology
- Lee Bickmore and Bronwyn Bjorkman (PhD 2011)[Princeton University]: Empty morphs in Kiwoso Chaga
- Dalina Kallulli, Ian Roberts, Ur Shlonsky (PhD 1987)[University of Geneva], and Charles Yang: Types of null subjects and the test of tolerance