{"id":18236,"date":"2026-09-14T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:26:36","slug":"mit-linguistics-wafl-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/14\/mit-linguistics-wafl-19\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ WAFL 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wafl19\/home\">WAFL 19<\/a>) was held from June 30 to July 2, 2026 at ZAS. Two of our alumns gave an invited talk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong> (PhD 2014)[CNRS \/ Nantes University]: Word order and interpretation order in Japanese scrambling<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00d6mer Demirok<\/strong> (PhD 2019)[Bo?azi\u00e7i University]: Toward a typology of implicit arguments: Insights from Turkish passives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following current students, faculty and alumns also presented their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Berg\u00fcl Soykan<\/strong> (4th year): Limitations on meta questions: Insights from Turkish<\/li>\n<li>R\u00fcmeysa Bekta?, Onur \u00d6zsoy, Despoina Oikonomou &amp; <strong>Shigeru Miyagawa<\/strong> (Faculty): Condition C effects in wh-movement in Turkish: The effect of pronominal type<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yusuke Imanishi<\/strong> (PhD 2014)[Kwansei Gakuin University]: Explaining evidentiality syntactically: Evidence from Kikai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_3531?.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18240\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_3531?.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WAFL-37.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18238\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WAFL-37.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 19) was held from June 30 to July 2, 2026 at ZAS. Two of our alumns gave an invited talk: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (PhD 2014)[CNRS \/ Nantes University]: Word order and interpretation order in Japanese scrambling \u00d6mer Demirok (PhD 2019)[Bo?azi\u00e7i University]: Toward a typology of implicit arguments: [&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-18236","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\/18236","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=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18242,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions\/18242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}