{"id":17086,"date":"2025-04-28T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17086"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:17:42","slug":"mit-linguistics-wccfl-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/04\/28\/mit-linguistics-wccfl-43\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ WCCFL 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/wccfl43.github.io\/\">WCCFL 43<\/a>) took place at University of Washington on April 25-27. MIT was well-represented by the following current and very recently graduated students with their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yiannis Katochoritis<\/strong> (2nd year), Magdalena Lohninger: Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giovanni Roversi <\/strong>(5th year): &#8220;Non-local A-movement&#8221; is predicted to exist, and it does<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulang Chen <\/strong>(PhD 2023)[Gridspace]: The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative constructions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zachary Feldcamp <\/strong>(3rd year), <strong>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad <\/strong>(6th year): Structure matters: missing implicatures and their consequence for the theory of alternatives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yurika Aonuki <\/strong>(3rd year): &#8216;Irrealis&#8217; particle ji in Gitksan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yiannis Katochoritis <\/strong>(2nd year): An argument for Syntactic Reconstruction: Distributivity as Variable Binding<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haoming Li<\/strong> (3rd year): Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in Mandarin Chinese<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zhouyi Sun<\/strong> (3rd year)<strong>, Peter Grishin<\/strong> (Postdoc; PhD 2023): Ordering postsyntactic operations within domains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-28-at-06.41.48.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17100\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-28-at-06.41.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) took place at University of Washington on April 25-27. MIT was well-represented by the following current and very recently graduated students with their work: Yiannis Katochoritis (2nd year), Magdalena Lohninger: Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots Giovanni Roversi (5th year): &#8220;Non-local A-movement&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17102,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}