{"id":16563,"date":"2024-10-21T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16563"},"modified":"2024-12-28T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:35:53","slug":"mit-linguistics-nels-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/10\/21\/mit-linguistics-nels-55\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ NELS 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Linguistics community and its alums were well-represented at <a href=\"https:\/\/campuspress.yale.edu\/nels55\/\">NELS 55<\/a>, hosted by Yale University on October 17 &amp; 18. Our distinguished alum <strong>Co<\/strong><strong>ppe van Urk<\/strong> (PhD 2015) of Queen Mary University of London, was one of the invited speakers, and spoke about &#8220;The cycle within a syllable: The role of the vP phase in Dinka morphophonology&#8221;. \u00a0The following talks and posters were presented by our current students and visitors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ioannis Katochoritis<\/strong> (2nd year) - Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magdalena Lohninger (Visiting student)<\/strong> - The A\u0092\/A signature: systematic patterns in composite A\u0092\/A probing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Meisenbichler<\/strong> (2nd year) - Interactions of worlds, times, and locations: On the expressive power of index shifting<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oddur Snorrason (Visiting student) <\/strong>- HAVE-omission in Swedish: Towards a theory of auxiliary omission<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anastasia Tsilia<\/strong> (4th year) - (In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian\n<p>&#8230; and these were the talks and posters by alums of the past decade &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Klaus Baki, Anthony D. Yates and <strong>Sam Zukoff<\/strong> (PhD 2017) [UCLA] - A phonology\u0096morphosyntax interface explanation of the \u0093nasal infix\u0094 in (Proto?)Indo-European<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzana Fong<\/strong> (PhD 2021) [Memorial University of Newfoundland] - Reciprocal binding and syntactic ergativity in Adyghe<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Hedding and <strong>Michelle Yuan<\/strong> (PhD 2018) [UCLA] - Distinct pathways to possessor ?-extraction in Mesoamerican languages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulang Chen<\/strong> (PhD 2023) [Gridspace] \u00a0and Ka-Fai Yip - Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of antilocality<\/li>\n<li>Luke Adamson and <strong>Stanislao Zomp\u00ec<\/strong> (PhD 2023) [Potsdam] - Polite Pronouns and the PCC<\/li>\n<li>Peter <strong>Grishin<\/strong> (Postdoc, PhD 2023) [MIT] - Impersonal impersonals and personal third persons: An argument for binary [\u00b1PART]\n<p>&#8230; and their predecesors!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karlos Arregi<\/strong> (PhD 2002) [University of Chicago]\u00a0and Matthew Hewett - Singular<em> they<\/em> and the syntax of pronominal imposters<\/li>\n<li>Daiki Asami and <strong>Benjamin Bruening<\/strong> (PhD 2001) [University of Delaware] - Subjectless readings of again and the Kratzerian model of argument structure<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Gajewski<\/strong> (PhD 2005) [University of Connecticut] - On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora<\/li>\n<li>Isabelle Charnavel, Tom Meadows and <strong>Dominique Sportiche<\/strong> (PhD 1984) \u00a0[UCLA] - Meaningful Agreement Features: Evidence from indexical binding\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Linguistics community and its alums were well-represented at NELS 55, hosted by Yale University on October 17 &amp; 18. 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