{"id":11581,"date":"2018-10-22T06:14:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2018-10-21T22:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:29:01","slug":"wafl14-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/22\/wafl14-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFL14 @ MIT and MIT @ WAFL14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT was the very proud host of the 14th Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics, which took place from Friday October 19th to Sunday 21st. This year&#8217;s edition celebrated the career of Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa, co-founder of WAFL (with Jaklin Kornflit). In his honour, a workshop was held on the day before the conference, featuring talks by friends, estimated colleagues, and former students.<\/p>\n<p>MIT presenters at WAFL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dmitry Privoznov (4th year), <em>Causality of passives and paradigmatic gaps<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Colin Davis (4th year), <em>Crossing and Stranding at vP in Altaic and beyond<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tatiana Bondarenko (2nd year), <em>Combining CPs by Restrict: evidence from Buryat<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00d6mer Demirok (5th year) &amp; Despina Oikonomou (alumna), <em>Difficult Imperatives in Turkish<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of our recent alumni, ?sa Kerem Bay?rl?, was an invited speaker. He gave a talk on <em>Concord in Altaic languages.<\/em> Suyeon Yun, another alumna, was presenting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ShigeruFest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11584 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ShigeruFest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>Prof. Miyagawa&#8217;s speech at the dinner organized in his honour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TanyaPoster.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11585\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TanyaPoster.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>Tanya Bondarenko presenting her poster<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AltaicMusician.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11586\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AltaicMusician.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>Musicians at the WAFL dinner: (left to right) Mongolian singer, Japanese shamisen player, traditional Turkish music band<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT was the very proud host of the 14th Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics, which took place from Friday October 19th to Sunday 21st. This year&#8217;s edition celebrated the career of Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa, co-founder of WAFL (with Jaklin Kornflit). In his honour, a workshop was held on the day before the conference, featuring talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}