{"id":18303,"date":"2026-10-19T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:17:58","slug":"mit-linguistics-nels-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/10\/19\/mit-linguistics-nels-57\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ NELS 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (<a href=\"https:\/\/nels57.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/\">NELS 57<\/a>) was hosted by by the City University of New York Graduate Center Linguistics Program October 16-18, 2026. Our alum <a href=\"https:\/\/athulyaaravind.github.io\/about.html\">Athulya Aravind<\/a> (PhD 2018)[Yale University] was invited as a keynote speaker and gave a talk, entitled &#8220;<em>Agreement, anti-agreement and the developing mind<\/em>&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The following current students and alums presented their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zhouyi Sun<\/strong> (5th year): Tigrinya gradable verbs: When verbalizers comparativize<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zhouyi Sun<\/strong> (5th year), <strong>Vlad Orlov<\/strong> (3rd year), and Oddur Snorrason: Concealed pied-piping and 3\/4 effects in degree questions in Russian and beyond<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vincent Rouillard<\/strong> (PhD 2023)[Universit\u00e9 Laval]: Deriving Strong Polarity Sensitivity and Locality Effects from Trivalence<\/li>\n<li>Furkan Dikmen, <strong>\u00d6mer Demirok<\/strong> (PhD 2019)[Bo?azi\u00e7i University], and Nikos Angelopoulos: Turkish passives have implicit arguments<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suyeon Yun<\/strong> (PhD 2016)[Chungnam National University]: Perceptual similarity in a single grammar: Repair choice in Mongolian loanwords<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coppe van Urk<\/strong> (PhD 2015)[Queen Mary University of London]: Outermost wins in Dinka and the theory of nonconcatenative morphology<\/li>\n<li>Lee Bickmore and <strong>Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/strong> (PhD 2011)[Princeton University]: Empty morphs in Kiwoso Chaga<\/li>\n<li>Dalina Kallulli, Ian Roberts, <strong>Ur Shlonsky<\/strong> (PhD 1987)[University of Geneva], and Charles Yang: Types of null subjects and the test of tolerance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57) was hosted by by the City University of New York Graduate Center Linguistics Program October 16-18, 2026. Our alum Athulya Aravind (PhD 2018)[Yale University] was invited as a keynote speaker and gave a talk, entitled &#8220;Agreement, anti-agreement and the developing mind&#8221;. The following [&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-18303","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\/18303","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=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18305,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}