MIT had a strong presence at this year’s LSA meeting, held in Pittsburgh, January 6-9. The following faculty, students, and recent graduates gave presentations:
– Bronwyn Bjorkman: The syntax of inverted conditional antecedents
– Jessica Coon (Harvard): Prepositions and the perfective: Deriving aspect-based split ergativity
– Jessica Coon and Omer Preminger: Transitivity in Chol:
A new argument for the Split VP Hypothesis
– Kai von Fintel (with David Beaver): Semantics
and pragmatics: The creation of an open access journal
– Suzanne Flynn (with Janet Cohen Sherman,
Alex Immerman, Barbara Lust, James Gair, Jordan
Whitlock, and Diane Rak): Language in aging and
dementia: A pilot study
– Gillian Gallagher (NYU): Auditory features: the case from laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions
– Peter Graff (with Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger): Phonetic convergence among reality television contestants
– Peter Graff (with Gregory Scontras and Noah D. Goodman): Plural comparison and collective predication
– Peter Graff (with Jeffrey Lim and Sophie Monahan): The determiner complexity hierarchy
– Jonah Katz (Centre national de la recherche scientifique): English duration patterns mirror perceptual asymmetries
– Giorgio Magri (École Normale Supérieure): Towards a non-universal approach to the problem of the acquisition of
phonotactics in Optimality Theory
– Tara McAllister (Montclair State University): Patterns of gestural overlap account for positional fricative
neutralization in child phonology
– Pritty Patel: Binding conditions and alienable vs. inalienable possession
– Kirill Shklovsky: Tseltal unnegatives