{"id":5636,"date":"2014-01-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2014-01-12T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:10:26","slug":"mit-at-the-lsa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/01\/13\/mit-at-the-lsa-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT at the LSA meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT had a strong presence at this year&#8217;s LSA Annual Meeting, held Jan 2-5 in Minneapolis. The following talks and posters featured MIT presenters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Erlewine<\/strong>: Association with traces and the copy theory of movement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Erlewine<\/strong> and <strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong>:\u00a0Morphological blocking in English causatives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iain Giblin<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Steddy<\/strong>:\u00a0Disambiguating the Scope of In-Situ Wh-Phrases with Telugu Prosody<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aron Hirsch<\/strong> and <strong>Martin Hackl<\/strong>:\u00a0Presupposition projection and incremental processing in disjunction<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yusuke Imanishi<\/strong>:\u00a0When ergative is default: Ergativity in Mayan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Jones<\/strong>:\u00a0Cyclic evaluation of post-lexical prosodic domains: evidence from Kinande boundary tones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong>:\u00a0Intervention effects follow from Relativized Minimality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong> and <strong>Martin Hackl<\/strong>:\u00a0Wh-words must QR locally: evidence from real-time processing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theodore Levin<\/strong>:\u00a0Pseudo-Noun Incorporation is M-Merger: Evidence from Balinese<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miriam Nussbaum<\/strong>:\u00a0The Interpretation of Indifference Free Relatives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juliet Stanton<\/strong>:\u00a0A cyclic factorial typology of Pama-Nyungan stress<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suyeon Yun<\/strong> :\u00a0Two Types of Focus Movement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition <strong>Patrick Jones<\/strong> won a Student Abstract Award, for having one of the three highest-ranked abstracts authored by a student. Congratulations, Patrick!<\/p>\n<p>Several recent alumni were also present:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/strong> (University of Toronto):\u00a0Multiple Agrees: Towards a non-unified theory of feature valuation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Claire Halpert<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Minnesota) and Maria Stolen (University of Minnesota):\u00a0Fixed aspect in Amharic Conditionals<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ora Matushansky<\/strong> (Utrecht University) and E.G. Ruys (Utrecht University):\u00a0Some indefinites are degrees<\/li>\n<li>Brian Buccola (McGill University) and\u00a0<strong>Morgan Sonderegger<\/strong> (McGill University):\u00a0On the expressivity of Optimality Theory vs. rules: An application to opacity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivona Kucerova<\/strong> (McMaster University) and Rachael Hardy (McMaster University): Two scrambling strategies in German: Evidence from PPs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Young Ah Do<\/strong> (Georgetown University): The asymmetrical base-inflected relation constrains child production and comprehension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT had a strong presence at this year&#8217;s LSA Annual Meeting, held Jan 2-5 in Minneapolis. The following talks and posters featured MIT presenters: Michael Erlewine: Association with traces and the copy theory of movement Michael Erlewine and Hadas Kotek:\u00a0Morphological blocking in English causatives Iain Giblin and Sam Steddy:\u00a0Disambiguating the Scope of In-Situ Wh-Phrases with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5636","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\/5636","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}