{"id":14396,"date":"2021-11-01T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14396"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:21:18","slug":"mit-linguistics-nels-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/11\/01\/mit-linguistics-nels-52\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ NELS 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main entry-content group\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/nels-52\/\">NELS 52<\/a> was held virtually at Rutgers University. The following students, faculty, and staff members presented at the conference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trevor Driscoll<\/strong> (2nd year): Voicing as a diagnostic of foot structure<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulang Chen<\/strong> (5th year): On split partitivity, external possession, and the phasehood of Mandarin DP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong> (6th year): Syntax of negation in corrective &#8220;but&#8221; sentences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ido Benbaji<\/strong> (3rd year): A new argument against Verb-Stranding VP-Ellipsis: The case from focus particles in polar questions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dmitry Privoznov<\/strong> (postdoc, PhD 2021): A Spell Out theory of adjunct islands<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Elliott<\/strong> (postdoc): A Q-based theory of pied-piping in relative clauses<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sherry Yong Chen<\/strong> (5th year), <strong>Cindy Torma<\/strong> (Lab Manager), and <strong>Athulya Aravind<\/strong> (professor, PhD 2018): Asymmetry in Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals: Evidence from Acquisition<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jad Wehbe<\/strong> (3rd year) and <strong>Enrico Flor<\/strong> (4th year): Focus sensitivity and homogeneity in attitude predicates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of our alums also gave presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Stockwell, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, and <strong>Dominique Sportiche<\/strong> (PhD 1983): Experimental evidence for the Condition C argument-adjunct asymmetry in English questions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colin Davis<\/strong> (PhD 2020): The Morpho-Syntactic Significance of the Unextractability of English Possessive Pronouns<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coppe Van Urk<\/strong> (PhD 2015) and Zhouyi Sun: Dinka plural morphology is concatenative and regular<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aron Hirsch<\/strong> (PhD 2017) and Bernhard Schwarz: Reconciling maximality with cumulativity in questions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wataru Uegaki<\/strong> (PhD 2015): Doubt, highlighting and exhaustification<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karlos Arregi<\/strong> (PhD 2002) and Emily Hanink: Reverse Weak PCC in Washo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzana Fong<\/strong> (PhD 2021): Nominal licensing via dependent case: the view from Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Wolof<\/li>\n<li>Deniz Satik and <strong>Susanne Wurmbrand<\/strong> (PhD 1998): The unavailability of temporal <em>de re<\/em> in English infinitives<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Keine, Will Oxford, and <strong>Jessica Coon<\/strong> (PhD 2010): Person restrictions depend on overt agreement, not nominal licensing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridget Copley<\/strong> (PhD 2002) and Alda Mari: Ingredients for a causal analysis of order and forbid<\/li>\n<li><strong>Idan Landau<\/strong> (PhD 1999): Argument Ellipsis as pro-replacement after TRANSFER<\/li>\n<li>Isabelle Charnavel and <strong>Dominique Sportiche<\/strong> (PhD 1983): Unifying intensifiers ourselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And one alum gave an invited talk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lisa Cheng<\/strong> (PhD 1991): All about &#8220;hit&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NELS 52 was held virtually at Rutgers University. The following students, faculty, and staff members presented at the conference. Trevor Driscoll (2nd year): Voicing as a diagnostic of foot structure Fulang Chen (5th year): On split partitivity, external possession, and the phasehood of Mandarin DP Danfeng Wu (6th year): Syntax of negation in corrective &#8220;but&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14396\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}