{"id":17495,"date":"2025-10-20T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:52:15","slug":"mit-linguistics-nels-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/20\/mit-linguistics-nels-56\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ NELS 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well-represented at <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/artsampscience-nels56\/\">NELS 56<\/a>, held at New York University from October 17\u009619, 2025. Two of our alums were invited speakers: <a href=\"https:\/\/alxatib.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Alxatib<\/a> (PhD 2013) of \u00a0CUNY, gave a talk titled <em>&#8220;Embedded tense: how to learn what some things can(not) mean (joint work with Spencer<\/em> <em>Caplan)&#8221;<\/em>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/tatiana-bondarenko\">Tanya Bondarenko<\/a> (PhD 2020), now a Harvard University, gave a talk titled <em data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"362\">\u0093Selective opacity and clausal embedding\u0094.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are the talks and posters presented by our faculty, current students and graduates in recent 10 years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yiannis Katochoritis<\/strong> (3rd year): How I learned to stop worrying about distance and love the covert spec-head<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad<\/strong> (dissertating student), <strong>Omri Doron<\/strong> (PhD 2025)[UMass]: Saving FACE: Fragment answers, copy theory, and radical trace conversion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad<\/strong> (dissertating student): <span class=\"poster-title\">Non-de dicto belief: Revision vs replacement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Si Berrebi<\/strong> (Postdoc): Absolute neutralization in Modern Hebrew? An experimental study<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Grishin<\/strong> (PhD 2023)[Brown University]: Could the Ban on Improper Movement be about binding after all?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tue Trinh<\/strong> (PhD 2011)[University of Nova Gorica], <strong>Danny Fox<\/strong> (Faculty, PhD 1998), <strong>Itai Bassi<\/strong> (PhD 2021)[ZAS; Ben Gurion University]: A unified theory of meta-questions<\/li>\n<li>Metehan Ery?lmaz, <strong>\u00d6mer Demirok<\/strong> (PhD 2019)[Bo?azi\u00e7i University], Ya?mur Sa?: From Numeral to Indefinite: A Kind-Sensitive Pathway in Turkish<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Yuan<\/strong> (PhD 2018)[UCLA], Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Ju\u00e1rez Ch\u00e1vez: Clitic coalescence in San Juan Pi\u00f1as Mixtec at the syntax-phonology interface<\/li>\n<li><strong>Despina Oikonomou<\/strong> (PhD 2016)[University of Crete], <strong>Shigeru Miyagawa<\/strong> (Faculty), Onur \u00d6zsoy, Caroline Heycock, Georgios Vardakis, R\u00fcmeysa Bekta?: Condition C amelioration effects in wh-movement: An interaction between pronominal type and d-linking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shigeru Miyagawa<\/strong> (Faculty), Nozomi Moritake, <strong>Ken Wexler<\/strong> (Faculty): The Optional Infinitive Stage in Japanese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And more from our alums:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terrance Gatchalian, <strong>Jessica Coon<\/strong> (PhD 2010)[McGill], Lefteris Paparounas: A unified syntax and semantics of Kanien\u0092k\u00e9ha statives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Idan Landau<\/strong> (PhD 1999)[Tel Aviv]: Silent Resumption: A New Test for Ellipsis<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"poster-title\"><span class=\"poster-authors\"><strong>Susi Wurmbrand<\/strong> (PhD 1998)[Paris Lodron Universit\u00e4t Salzburg], <strong>Filipe Hisao Kobayashi<\/strong> (PhD 2023)[Paris Lodron Universit\u00e4t Salzburg], Caroline Gardner, Franziska Keller, Anita Riedl: <\/span>Fake indexicals in relative clauses: licensing by phase<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"poster-title\"><span class=\"poster-authors\">Ryan Walter Smith, <strong>Mark Baker<\/strong> (PhD 1985)[Rutgers University]: <\/span>Agentless Presuppositions of again: Meet Obligatory Control<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan David Bobaljik<\/strong> (PhD 1995)[Harvard]: The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well-represented at NELS 56, held at New York University from October 17\u009619, 2025. 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