{"id":18027,"date":"2026-05-11T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18027"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:11:04","slug":"mit-linguistics-wccfl-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/05\/11\/mit-linguistics-wccfl-44\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ WCCFL 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/wccfl44.github.io\/WCCFL44\/index.html\">WCCFL44<\/a>) was held at Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico in Mexico City on May 6-8. Some of our current students, faculty and alums presented their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tamari Berulava<\/strong> (2nd year): Shifting Identity: the Interaction of phi-features, Honorification and Indexical shift<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michela Ippolito\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD 2002)[University of Toronto]\u00a0&amp; <strong>Anastasia Tsilia<\/strong> (5th year): <i>What if<\/i>\u00a0and its kin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Norvin Richards<\/strong> (Faculty; PhD 1997): Long-distance agreement by proxy in Passamaquoddy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Coon<\/strong> (PhD 2010)[McGill University], Stefan Keine, Juan Jes\u00fas V\u00e1zquez \u00c1lvarez &amp; <strong>Michael Wagner <\/strong>(PhD 2005)[McGill University]: Reconsidering Animacy Hierarchy Effects in Mayan: Experimental Evidence from Ch\u0092ol<\/li>\n<li>Adam Singerman, <strong>Andrew Nevins<\/strong> (PhD 2005)[UCL], Susana Bejar, Maka Tetradze: Suppletion as inflection: insights from two endangered languages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ken Hiraiwa <\/strong>(PhD 2005)[Meiji Gakuin University], Kimiko Nakanishi: Japanese Free Choice Items at the Syntax\u0096Semantics\u0096Phonology Interface<\/li>\n<li>Anna Carolina Almeida, Raimundo Cox-Casals, <strong>Michael Wagner <\/strong>(PhD 2005)[McGill University]: Adjectival agreement is interpretable: Evidence from summative agreement in Mexican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Alxatib<\/strong> (PhD 2013)[CUNY], <strong>Alexander Podobryaev <\/strong>(PhD 2014)[HSE]: On the (non-) vacuity of the Russian participial present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-21.19.27.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18049\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-21.19.27.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL44) was held at Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico in Mexico City on May 6-8. Some of our current students, faculty and alums presented their work: Tamari Berulava (2nd year): Shifting Identity: the Interaction of phi-features, Honorification and Indexical shift Michela Ippolito\u00a0(PhD 2002)[University of Toronto]\u00a0&amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-faculty-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027","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=18027"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18050,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027\/revisions\/18050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}