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MIT @ TripleA

The 12th TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers was held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan on September 10-12, 2025. The following members of our community presented at the conference:

  • James Cooper Roberts (3rd year), Yizhen Jiang (3rd year) & Haoming Li (4th year): How to talk about groups in a language without group nouns: The case of Passamaquoddy
  • Junri Shimada (PhD 2009)[Meiji Gakuin University] & Abdul-Razak Sulemana (PhD 2021)[University of Ghana]: Embedded tenses in Bùlì
  • Tim Jantarungsee, Christopher Davis & Yasutada Sudo (PhD 2012)[UCL]: Selectional restriction in Mlabri ingestion verbs