{"id":18129,"date":"2026-09-09T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18129"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:33:58","slug":"legerme-at-lingo-and-spcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/09\/legerme-at-lingo-and-spcl\/","title":{"rendered":"Legerme at LingO and SPCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our dissertating student <a href=\"https:\/\/legermec.github.io\/webpage\/\">Christopher Legerme<\/a> spent part of the summer presenting some of his dissertation research on <em>Contextual Morphology and the Syntax-Phonology Interface, from Bantu to French Creole<\/em>. He presented a poster at LingO 2026 in Oxford, London in June and a talk at SPCL 2026 in Aarhus, Denmark in August. His work compares contextual morphological alternations across Bantu and French-lexified Creole languages, using their parallels to reflect on how syntax and phonology interact in determining morphological form.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PXL_20260623_143440270.PORTRAIT2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18131\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PXL_20260623_143440270.PORTRAIT2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260827-WA0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18130\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260827-WA0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Photos: Christopher presenting his poster at LingO, and at SPCL with T\u00f6njes Veenstra, Peter Bakker, and St\u00e9phane T\u00e9rosier (left to right).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dissertating student Christopher Legerme spent part of the summer presenting some of his dissertation research on Contextual Morphology and the Syntax-Phonology Interface, from Bantu to French Creole. He presented a poster at LingO 2026 in Oxford, London in June and a talk at SPCL 2026 in Aarhus, Denmark in August. His work compares contextual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129","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=18129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18204,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129\/revisions\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}