{"id":13996,"date":"2021-02-16T05:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13996"},"modified":"2021-02-15T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:24:42","slug":"mit-lsa-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/02\/16\/mit-lsa-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ LSA 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Many of our current students, faculty, and visitors gave presentations - some as collaboration with alums.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong> (5<sup>th<\/sup> year): <em>Evasion strategies save apparent island violations in stripping<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tanya Bondarenko<\/strong> (4<sup>th<\/sup> year), <strong>Colin Davis<\/strong> (PhD 2020): <em>What cross-clausal scrambling in Balkar reveals about phase edges<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Asherov<\/strong> (4<sup>th<\/sup> year), <strong>Danny Fox<\/strong> (faculty), <strong>Roni Katzir<\/strong> (PhD 2008): <em>On the Irrelevance of contextually given states for the computation of Scalar Implicatures<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rafael Abramovitz<\/strong> (6<sup>th<\/sup> year): <em>Deconstructing Inverse Case Attraction<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tanya Bondarenko<\/strong> (4<sup>th<\/sup> year): <em>Inverse in Passamaquoddy as the spell-out of Feature Gluttony<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Banerjee<\/strong> (5<sup>th<\/sup> year): <em>Two ways to form a portmanteau: Evidence from ellipsis<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Goodhue<\/strong> (University of Maryland), <strong>Jad Wehbe<\/strong> (1<sup>st<\/sup> year), <strong>Valentine Hacquard<\/strong> (PhD 2006; University of Maryland), <strong>Jeffrey Lidz<\/strong> (University of Maryland): <em>That\u0092s a question? Preschoolers\u0092 comprehension illocutionary force, clause type and intonation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzanne Flynn<\/strong> (faculty), <strong>Barbara Lust<\/strong> (visiting professor; Cornell University), <strong>Janet Sherman<\/strong> (Harvard University), <strong>Charles R. Henderson<\/strong> (Cornell University): <em>Binding and Coreference Dissociate in Mild Cognitive Impairment\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Colin Davis<\/strong> (PhD 2020), <strong>Patrick Elliott<\/strong> (postdoctoral associate): <em>Radical successive cyclicity and the freedom of parasitic gaps<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our alums also presented in the conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Colin Davis<\/strong> (PhD 2020; University of Southern California): <em>On parasitic gaps in relative clauses and extraction from NP<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Kenyon Branan<\/strong> (PhD 2018; National University of Singapore), <strong>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong> (PhD 2014; National University of Singapore): <em>Binding reconstruction and the types of traces<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Sam Zukoff<\/strong> (PhD 2017; University of Leipzig): <em>Deriving Arabic Verbal \u0093Templates\u0094 without Templates<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Joey Lim <\/strong>(National University of Singapore), <strong>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong> (PhD 2014; National University of Singapore): <em>Word order and disambiguation in Pangasinan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Elsi Kaiser<\/strong> (University of Southern California), <strong>Patrick Georg Grosz<\/strong> (PhD 2011; University of Oslo): <em>Anaphoricity in emoji: An experimental investigation of face and non-face emoji<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Jeong Hwa Cho<\/strong> (University of Michigan), <strong>Ezra Keshet <\/strong>(PhD 2008; University of Michigan): <em>Actuality and Counterfactual Implicatures in Korean Possibility and Necessity Modals<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Tzu-Hsuan Yang<\/strong> (University of Kansas), <strong>Yueh-chin Chang<\/strong> (National Tsing Hua University), <strong>Feng-fan Hsieh<\/strong> (PhD 2007; National Tsing Hua University): <em>Perceptually inconspicuous yet articulatorily distinct merger: A case study of Taiwanese Mandarin coda nasals<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Ken Hiraiwa <\/strong>(PhD 2005; Meiji Gakuin University): <em>Sluicing cannot Apply In-Situ in Japanese<\/em><\/li>\n<li>?<strong>Suyeon Im <\/strong>(Hanyang University), <strong>Jennifer Cole<\/strong> (PhD 1987; Northwestern University): <em>Discourse meaning in perception and production of prosodic prominence<\/em><\/li>\n<li>??<strong>Deepak Alok<\/strong> (Rutgers University), <strong>Mark Baker<\/strong> (PhD 1985; Rutgers University): <em>Person and Honorification: Features and Interactions in Magahi <\/em>(talk presented during the symposium on the features of allocutivity, honorifics and social relation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. 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