{"id":2501,"date":"2011-04-04T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2011-04-03T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T22:27:36","slug":"mit-at-wccfl-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/04\/04\/mit-at-wccfl-29\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT at WCCFL 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is a busy month for MIT Linguistics: In addition to CLS, mentioned last week, a number of students, faculty, and alumni of the department will also be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.arizona.edu\/wccfl29\/\">29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics<\/a> at the University of Arizona, April 22-24. Faculty member <b>Norvin Richards<\/b> and alumnus <b>Tom Bever<\/b> (PhD 1967) will be giving plenary talks, and the program includes talks and posters by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Alya Asarina<\/b>: &#8220;Constraints on Quantifier Lowering&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Bronwyn M. Bjorkman<\/b>: &#8220;The Crosslinguistic Defaultness of BE&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Micha Breakstone<\/b> (current visitor), <b>Alexandre Cremers<\/b> (former visitor), <b>Danny Fox<\/b>, and <b>Martin Hackl<\/b>: &#8220;Processing Degree Operator Movement: Implications for the Analysis of Differentials&#8221;\n<li><b>Jessica Coon<\/b> (PhD 2010) and <b>Omer Preminger<\/b>: &#8220;Towards a Unification of Person Splits&#8221;\n<li><b>Luka Crni?<\/b>: &#8220;How to get &#8216;even&#8217; with imperatives&#8221;\n<li><b>Young Ah Do<\/b>: &#8220;Learning alternations without bias&#8221;\n<li><b>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/b>: &#8220;Share to Compare: the Mandarin b? Comparative&#8221;\n<li><b>Claire Halpert<\/b>: &#8220;Case, agreement, EPP and information structure: a quadruple-dissociation in Zulu&#8221;\n<li><b>Claire Halpert<\/b> and <b>Hadil Karawani<\/b> (former visitor): &#8220;Aspect in counterfactuals from A(rabic) to Z(ulu)&#8221;\n<li><b>Natalia Ivlieva<\/b>: &#8220;Agreement with Disjunction&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Hadas Kotek<\/b>, <b>Yasutada Sudo<\/b>, <b>Edwin Howard<\/b>, and <b>Martin Hackl<\/b>: &#8220;A superlative reading for most<sub>prop<\/sub>&#8221;\n<li><b>Mikko Kupula<\/b> (current visitor): &#8220;The role of Spec,vP in clitic doubling&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Giorgi Magri<\/b> (PhD 2009): &#8220;HG has no computational advantages over OT: towards a new approach to computational OT&#8221;\n<li>Ana Arregui, Maria Luisa Rivero, and <b>Andres Pablo Salanova<\/b> (PhD 2007): &#8220;The construction of imperfectivity in Mebengokre&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Erik Schoorlemmer<\/b> (current visitor) and Tanja Temmerman: &#8220;Head Movement as a PF?phenomenon: evidence from identity under ellipsis&#8221;\n<li><b>Shoichi Takahashi<\/b> (PhD 2006): &#8220;Anatomy of tough movement&#8221;\n<li><b>Coppe van Urk<\/b>: &#8220;Visser&#8217;s Generalization: A Window Into the Syntax of Control&#8221; (poster)\n<li><b>Susanne Wurmbrand<\/b> (PhD 1998): &#8220;The syntax of valuation in auxiliary-participle constructions&#8221; (poster)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you to David Pesetsky for compiling this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is a busy month for MIT Linguistics: In addition to CLS, mentioned last week, a number of students, faculty, and alumni of the department will also be at the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of Arizona, April 22-24. 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