{"id":3533,"date":"2011-12-19T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2011-12-19T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:07:06","slug":"mit-linguists-at-the-lsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/12\/19\/mit-linguists-at-the-lsa\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguists at the LSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy contingent of our graduate students (and recently minted PhDs) will be presenting papers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lsadc.org\/info\/meet-annual.cfm\">2012 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America<\/a> in Portland, Oregon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/alya\/www\/\">Alya Asarina<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PhD 2011): &#8220;<em>Against the activity condition: An argument from Uyghur<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nuweb.neu.edu\/bjorkman\/index.html\">Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2011): &#8220;<em>Auxiliary verb constructions and the morphosyntax of verbal inflection<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/graff\/www\/\">Peter Graff<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Languages favor perceptible contrasts in distinguishing words: Evidence from minimal pairs<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Graff<\/strong>, with a large group from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~herpro\/home.htm\">Masha Polinsky&#8217;s lab<\/a> at Harvard (including <strong>Jessica Coon<\/strong>, PhD 2010): &#8220;<em>Processing ergative languages: Methodology and preliminary results<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Graff,<\/strong>\u00a0with a million people from the University of Chicago: &#8220;<em>Coronal stop deletion on reality TV&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/halpert\/www\/Site\/Claire%20Halpert.html\">Claire Halpert<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Nominals are case-licensed, even in Bantu: Evidence from Zulu<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hartmanj\/www\/\">Jeremy Hartman<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Experiencer intervention in English<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/pjjones\/www\/\">Patrick Jones<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Intermediate contour tones derive non-iterative tone shift in Kinande<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mit.academia.edu\/MarieChristineMeyer\">Marie-Christine Meyer<\/a>,<\/strong> with Evelina Fedorenko and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/bcs.mit.edu\/people\/gibson.html\">Edward Gibson<\/a><\/b>: &#8220;<em>Contrastive topic intonation: An empirical evaluation<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/jenmich\/www\/\">Jennifer Michaels<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Caught in-between: Neutralizing indistinct surface contrasts<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/kirills\/www\/\">Kirill Shklovsky<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;<em>A binding account of possessor raising<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kirill Shklovsky<\/strong>: &#8220;<em>Split infinitives in Tseltal<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Other MIT events at the LSA:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>ACLS New Faculty Fellow\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/toosarva.scripts.mit.edu\/\">Maziar Toosarvandani<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will also give a talk on\u00a0&#8221;<em>Temporal interpretation and discourse structure in Northern Paiute<\/em>&#8221;,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tedlab.mit.edu\/\">Ted Gibson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and various collaborators will present several papers at the conference, and &#8230; 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