{"id":16237,"date":"2024-04-16T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16237"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:45:01","slug":"mit-wccfl-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/04\/16\/mit-wccfl-42\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ WCCFL 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wccfl42.com\/home\">WCCFL42<\/a>) took place at UC Berkeley on April 12&#8212;14. MIT was well-represented by the following current and very recently graduated students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yeong-Joon Kim (5th year)<\/strong>: Overapplication opacity as a consequence of phonetic faithfulness<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulang Chen (PhD, 2023)<\/strong>: Generalized composite probing in Mandarin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (5th year)<\/strong>: Specific-opaque readings relative to tense and DP-internal quantification over times<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anastasia Tsilia (3rd year)<\/strong> &amp; Zhuoye Zhao: Why is then incompatible with the present?<\/li>\n<li>Gurmeet Kaur &amp; <strong>Yash Sinha (5th year)<\/strong>: Gender asymmetry as a window into the mechanism of mixed concord<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (5th year) &amp; Omri Doron (5th year)<\/strong>: Relevance as a dynamic constraint<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yurika Aonuki (2nd year)<\/strong>: Minimum-standard predicates as resultatives and measure phrase interpretations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zachary Feldcamp (2nd year)<\/strong>: Precedence-sensitive A-movement in locative inversion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stanislao Zomp\u00ec (PhD, 2023) &amp; Zhouyi Sun (2nd year)<\/strong>: *ABA in Multidimensional Paradigms: A Harmonic Grammar-based account<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danfeng Wu (PhD, 2022):<\/strong> The absolute and contextual forms of \u0091one\u0092 and \u0091two\u0092 in Mandarin Chinese<\/li>\n<li>Magdalena Lohninger &amp; <strong>Ioannis Katochoritis (1st year)<\/strong>: Between topics and subjects: an A&#8217;\/A typology of Austronesian pivots<\/li>\n<li><strong>Itai Bassi (PhD, 2021)<\/strong>: Pathological Questions, focus, and unacceptable ellipsis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Photo credit: Fulang Chen. Missing: Anastasia, Zach, Yash, Yeong-Joon&#8212;-as indicated on the piece of paper in the photo.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image_123986672.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16254\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image_123986672.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL42) took place at UC Berkeley on April 12&#8212;14. MIT was well-represented by the following current and very recently graduated students: Yeong-Joon Kim (5th year): Overapplication opacity as a consequence of phonetic faithfulness Fulang Chen (PhD, 2023): Generalized composite probing in Mandarin Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (5th year): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16263,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions\/16263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}