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MIT Linguistics at GLOW 31 in Newcastle

The [GLOW31 Programme](http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/glow2008/GLOW31_provisional_programme.htm) (March 25—29, Newcastle University) lists the following current MIT linguistics and recent PhDs:

* David Pesetsky (MIT): “Same Recipe, Different Ingredients: Music Syntax is Language Syntax”
* Omer Preminger (MIT): “Long-Distance Agreement in Basque, Locally Speaking”
* Rajesh Bhatt (UMass, Amherst and Umass) and Shoichi Takahashi (Amherst/University of Tokyo): “When to reduce and when not to: crosslinguistic variation in phrasal”
* Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (METU): “Linearizing Multidominance Structures”

And slightly less recent PhDs (last 10 years):

* Jonathan Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut): “Word order and scope: transparent interfaces and the 3/4 signature”
* Ora Matushansky (CNRS/Université Paris 8): “More of the same”
* Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University): “What Case Transmission Tells Us About Control”
* Marie-Hélène Côté (University of Ottawa): “Is syllabification categorical or gradient?”

[Thanks to David Pesetsky for this news item!]