{"id":11483,"date":"2018-10-10T06:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2018-10-10T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:23:45","slug":"mit-at-nels-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/10\/mit-at-nels-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT at NELS 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, NELS took place at Cornell University, from October 5th to 7th. MIT was well represented with talks and posters by currents students and faculty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/danfengwu.weebly.com\/\">Danfeng Wu<\/a> (3rd year), <em>A copy-based approach to either in either &#8230; or &#8230; sentences<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Frank Staniszewski (3rd year), <em>Wanting, acquiescing and neg-raising<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Carolyn Spadine (5th year), <em>Control in illocutionary adjuncts as a diagnostic for discourse arguments<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Vincent Rouillard (2nd year),<em> Number inflection, Spanish bare interrogatives and higher-order quantification<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/norvin\/www\/home.html\">Norvin Richards<\/a> (faculty), <em>Detecting contiguity-prominence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/masamocnik\/\">Ma\u009aa Mo?nik<\/a> (4th year), <em>Existential belief and embedded epistemic modals<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/sznfong\/\">Suzana Fong<\/a> (4th year), <em>Spec-CP as an A-position: an argument from Mongolian<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nfrancis.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">Naomi Francis<\/a> (5th year), <em>Imperatives under even<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demirok.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">\u00d6mer Demirok<\/a> (5th year), Deniz Ozyildiz and Balkiz Ozturk, <em>Complementizers in Laz are attitude-sensitive<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/colinpbdavis\/\">Colin Davis<\/a> (4th year), <em>Possessor extraction in English<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenyc.github.io\/\">Keny Chatain<\/a> (3rd year), <em>Wide-scope distributivity<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tbond.scripts.mit.edu\/tb\/\">Tanya Bondarenko<\/a> (2nd year) and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/colinpbdavis\/\">Colin Davis<\/a> (4th year), <em>Parasitic gaps diagnose concealed pied-piping in Russian<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/ibassi\/\">Itai Bassi<\/a> (4th year), <em>Fake Indexicals are not so fake: on the grammar of variable binding<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rafael Abramovitz (4th year), <em>Successive-cyclic wh-movement feeds dependent case competition<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent and less recent alums were also presenting papers and posters: <a href=\"https:\/\/voices.uchicago.edu\/mmxyuan\/\">Michelle Yuan<\/a> (UChicago), <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/rasin\/www\/\">Ezer Rasin<\/a> (Leipzig University), <a href=\"https:\/\/udel.edu\/~bruening\/\">Benjamin Bruening<\/a> (University of Delaware), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ling.upenn.edu\/~jlegate\/\">Julie Legate <\/a>(UPenn), <a href=\"http:\/\/home.uchicago.edu\/karlos\/\">Karlos Arregi<\/a> (UChicago), <a href=\"http:\/\/hkotek.com\/\">Hadas Kotek<\/a> (Yale).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MIT-at-NELS49.-retouched.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11488 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MIT-at-NELS49.-retouched.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><sub>MIT participants couldn&#8217;t be taken a proper picture of (credit: Rajesh Bhatt)<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, NELS took place at Cornell University, from October 5th to 7th. 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