{"id":14500,"date":"2022-01-31T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2022-01-31T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:25:12","slug":"mit-lsa-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/01\/31\/mit-lsa-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ LSA 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Several of our current students, faculty, and visitors gave presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong> (6th year) and <strong>Boer Fu<\/strong> (5th year): Prosodic evidence for syntax in biased questions in Mandarin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boer Fu<\/strong> (5th year) and <strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong> (6th year): Numeral Allomorphy of \u0091One\u0092 and \u0091Two\u0092 in Mandarin Chinese<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danfeng Wu<\/strong> (6th year): Bipartite syntax of negation in corrective &#8220;but&#8221; sentences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boer Fu<\/strong> (5th year): Prenuclear Glide in Mandarin Chinese: Is It a Segment?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulang Chen<\/strong> (5th year): Can noun modifiers be stranded or extracted in Mandarin?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yash Sinha<\/strong> (3rd year): The Structure of Hindi indirect causatives: Evidence from apparent *ABA violation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Elliott<\/strong> (postdoctoral associate): A scopal theory of pied-piping in relative clauses<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yourdanis Sedarous<\/strong> (visiting student; University of Michigan) and <strong>Marlyse Baptista<\/strong> (University of Michigan): Optimization of Shared Structures in Egyptian Arabic-English Bilinguals: A View From Language Contact<\/li>\n<li><strong>Annie Birkeland<\/strong> (University of Michigan), <strong>Adeli Block<\/strong> (University of Michigan), <strong>Justin Craft<\/strong> (University of Michigan), <strong>Yourdanis Sedarous<\/strong> (visiting student; University of Michigan), <strong>Wang Sky<\/strong> (University of Michigan), <strong>Gou Wu<\/strong> (University of Michigan), and <strong>Savithry Namboodiripad<\/strong> (University of Michigan): Problematizing the \u0093native speaker\u0094 in Linguistic Research: History of the term and ways forward<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Frank<\/strong> (Yale) and <strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong> (PhD 2014; research affiliate): Top-down derivations: Flipping syntax on its head<\/li>\n<li><strong>Itamar Kastner<\/strong> (University of Edinburgh), <strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong> (PhD 2014; research affiliate), <strong>Anonymous<\/strong>, <strong>Rikker Dockum<\/strong> (Swarthmore College), <strong>Michael Dow<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), <strong>Maria Esipova<\/strong> (University of Oslo), <strong>Caitlin M. Green<\/strong> (None), and <strong>Todd Snider<\/strong> (Heinrich-Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf): The Open Letter: Responses and Recommendations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professor Michel DeGraff delivered a plenary talk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michel DeGraff<\/strong> (faculty): <span id=\"page304R_mcid4\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">On impure linguistics for self-purification and direct action<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And several alums also presented in the conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kimiko Nakanishi<\/strong> (Ochanomizu University) and <strong>Ken Hiraiwa<\/strong> (PhD 2005; Meiji Gakuin University): Indeterminates in Comparatives as Free Choice Items<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ken Hiraiwa<\/strong> (PhD 2005; Meiji Gakuin University) and <strong>George Akanlig-Pare<\/strong> (University of Ghana): Syntax of Reduplication and Negative-Polarity Items in Buli<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ken Hiraiwa<\/strong> (PhD 2005; Meiji Gakuin University): Animacy Hierarchy and Case\/Agreement in Okinawan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Zukoff<\/strong> (PhD 2017; University of Leipzig): Less is Moro: Streamlining Jenks &amp; Rose (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elsi Kaiser<\/strong> (University of Southern California), <strong>Ramida Phoolsombat<\/strong> (University of Southern California), <strong>Pritty Patel-Grosz<\/strong> (PhD 2012; University of Oslo), and <strong>Patrick Georg Grosz<\/strong> (PhD 2011; University of Oslo): Resolving ambiguity in speaker- and hearer-oriented body part emoji: Reference resolution beyond pronouns<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yu&#8217;an Yang<\/strong> (University of Maryland), <strong>Daniel Goodhue<\/strong> (University of Maryland), <strong>Valentine Hacquard<\/strong> (PhD 2006; University of Maryland), and <strong>Jeffrey Lidz<\/strong> (University of Maryland): Are you asking me or telling me? Learning to identify questions in early speech to children<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzana Fong<\/strong> (PhD 2021): Nominal licensing via dependent case: the view from Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Wolof<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. 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