\nAlumnus and current postdoctoral associate Daniel Asherov<\/a> (PhD ‘23) as well as current linguistics section head Danny Fox<\/a> and Roni Katzir<\/a> (PhD ‘08) have a new paper published in the journal Linguistics and Philosophy. The paper’s title is “Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference” and is available on open access here: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10988-023-09406-0. Congratulations to the authors!<\/li>\n
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- Ruoan Wang: Tiered honorification in Eastern Indo-Aryan: [HON]-less, and also presuppositionless<\/li>\n
- Yurika Aonuki: Comparatives and differential measure phrases without -er in Gitksan<\/li>\n
- Enrico Flor: Coarse modality with Italian magari\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
- Tamari Berulava (incoming PhD student) and Clemens Mayr: Bare plurals in articleless languages as weak definites<\/li>\n
- Vincent Rouillard (PhD, 2023; MIT post-doc 2023\/24): A note on any<\/em> and simplification<\/li>\n
- Tatiana Bondarenko (PhD, 2022): Javanese veridicality mismatches: Q-to-P reduction amid uniformity<\/li>\n
- Itai Bassi (PhD, 2021): Pathological questions, focus, and unacceptable ellipsis<\/li>\n
- Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (PhD, 2023), Enrico Flor (dissertating student): Quantification Uncovered<\/li>\n
- Andreea Nicolae, Aron Hirsch (PhD, 2017), Anamaria Falaus: Exceptives under negation: Strengthening the case for p-Exh
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<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- May 28 & 29: David Pesetsky @ the Romanian Academy of Sciences<\/strong>
\nAt the beginning of the summer, David Pesetsky<\/a> gave two talks at the Romanian Academy of Sciences. \u00a0On May 28, he gave a talk on the topic “Is there an LLM challenge for Linguistics?” to the Academy itself, and the next day he participated in a celebratory conference honoring the 75th anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy, with a talk on “Dissimilation: Shrinker of Clauses”.<\/li>\n- May 31: <\/strong>A number of recent PhDs received their diplomas and ceremonial hoods at MIT’s graduate commencement ceremony in May. Renewed congratulations to Christopher Yang<\/a>, Daniel Asherov<\/a>, Fulang Chen<\/a>, Boer Fu<\/a>, Vincent Rouillard<\/a>, Cora Lesure, Peter Grishin<\/a>, and Filipe de Salles Kobayashi<\/a>!\u00a0
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<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n- June 4—6: <\/strong>The 27th International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics<\/a> (ISMIL 27) was organised by the National University of Singapore. Current students Omri Doron, Keely New, and Ruoan Wang gave presentations on their recent and ongoing field work on Jakarta Indonesian. The conference was co-organised by alum Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/a> (PhD, 2014). Almost as important as the conference was the delightful local cuisine, as pictured.<\/li>\n
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<\/a><\/li>\n- June 27 & 28: Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators at ZAS, Berlin<\/strong>
\nThis workshop, organized by Clemens Mayr and Tue Trinh (PhD ‘11), featured contributions by Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Danny Fox, Shigeru Miyagawa, Omri Doron, Jad Wehbe, Keny Chatain (PhD ‘21), Uli Sauerland (PhD ‘98), Marie-Christine Meyer (PhD ‘13), Roni Katzir (‘08), and Luka Crni? (PhD ‘11).<\/li>\n- July 4: Fox & Katzir in Theoretical Linguistics<\/strong>
\nA new paper on LLMs and linguistic cognition was published by our colleague Danny Fox<\/a> and alum Roni Katzir<\/a> (PhD ‘08) in the journal Theoretical Linguistics. The paper is entitled “Large Language Models and theoretical linguistics” and discusses the validity of LLMs as theories of human linguistic cognition. You can access the paper here: https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/tl-2024-2005\/html<\/a>. Congratulations to Danny and Roni!<\/li>\n- July 13-26: CreteLing<\/strong>
\nThe 6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics<\/a> took place in Rethymnon at the University of Crete campus. MIT’s Sabine Iatridou<\/a> was a co-director and an organizing committee member. Sabine also co-taught a class on Polydefiniteness during Week 1 of the school. MIT Linguistics was also well-represented by a number of faculty and alumni who (co-)taught courses as well as graduate students who TAed for classes.
\n- Adam Albright<\/a> taught a course entitled Exceptions<\/em>
\n- Athulya Aravind<\/a> co-taught a course entitled Language Acquisition: Developmental Issues in Semantics<\/em>
\n- Ora Matushansky<\/a> (PhD’02) co-taught a course entitled Realizational Morphology and Pieces of Inflection<\/em>
\n- Kai von Fintel<\/a> co-taught a course entitled Enough! The Linguistics of Sufficiency<\/em>
\n- Paul Kiparsky<\/a> (PhD ‘65) co-taught a class entitled Language Change<\/em>
\n- David Pesetsky<\/a> co-taught a class on Ellipsis\u00a0<\/em>with Kyle Johnson<\/a> (PhD ‘86)
\n- Shigeru Miyagawa<\/a> co-taught a class on The Morpho-Syntax and Semantics of the Altaic Languages<\/em>
\n- Ezer Rasin<\/a> (PhD ‘18 and current visiting professor) & Donca Steriade<\/a> taught a class on Phonological Opacity and Grammar Architecture<\/em>
\n- Six current MIT Linguistics graduate students were TAs for classes during the school: Ad\u00e9le Mortier, Berg\u00fcl Soykan, Johanna Alstott, Bingzi Yu, James Cooper Roberts, and Hani Na’eem<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image_123650291-2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- August 10—19: Passamaquoddy field trip
\n<\/strong>The MIT Passamaquoddy group went on a field trip to Maine from August 10-19. They worked with native speaker informants in Sipayik, Motahkomikuk, and Indian Township. Among said informants was MITILI alumnus Roger Paul. Below are some pictures.
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