{"id":5883,"date":"2014-03-10T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2014-03-10T00:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T04:53:46","slug":"mit-goes-to-wccfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/03\/10\/mit-goes-to-wccfl\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT goes to WCCFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of our folks unaccountably left the subzero weather of Boston to travel to Los Angeles for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/uscwccfl32\/home\">32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics<\/a> (WCCFL) last weekend at USC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/cvanurk\/www\/\">Coppe van Urk<\/a><\/strong> presented a talk entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_QqEi95AjdPaENseWJLUVlDNFE\/edit?usp=sharing\">Intermediate positions in Dinka: Evidence for feature-driven movement<\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/juliets\/www\/home.html\">Juliet Stanton<\/a><\/strong> spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_QqEi95AjdPVkhqbi0xTjkwbi1zbFExRWd2Mk9lZHRXS2lF\/edit?usp=sharing\">&#8220;Factorial typology and accentual faithfulness&#8221;<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/yusukeimanishilinguistics\/home\">Yusuke Imanishi<\/a> <\/strong>presented a poster entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_QqEi95AjdPXzBXd2p1aDN4U2c\/edit?usp=sharing\">&#8220;Default ergative: a view from Mayan&#8221;<\/a>, and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tfranklevin\/\">Ted Levin<\/a><\/strong> presented a poster on <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_QqEi95AjdPX2Y2OTBjSnZrLUE\/edit?usp=sharing\">&#8220;Balinese Pseudo-Noun Incorporation: Licensing under Morphological Merger&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Invited keynote speaker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/iatridou\/index.html\">Sabine Iatridou<\/a><\/strong> wins the prize for the longest talk title: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_QqEi95AjdPUWZZTWpDTWQtd0U\/edit\">&#8220;About determiners on event descriptions, about time being like space (when we talk), and about one particularly strange construction&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, there were plenty of familiar alumni faces giving talks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/files.nyu.edu\/geg4\/public\/site\/about.html\">Gillian Gallagher<\/a> PhD&#8217;10 (NYU), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/kluck\/\">Marlies Kluck<\/a> (&#8216;08-9 visitor, Groningen), <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.snu.ac.kr\/ko\/\">Heejong Ko<\/a> PhD &#8216;05 (Seoul National University), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.illinois.edu\/people\/tionin\">Tania Ionin<\/a> BCS PhD &#8216;03 (Illinois), <a href=\"http:\/\/wurmbrand.uconn.edu\/Susi\/Home.html\">Susanne Wurmbrand<\/a> PhD &#8216;98 (Connecticut), and former faculty visitor <a href=\"http:\/\/people.umass.edu\/bhatt\/\">Rajesh Bhatt<\/a> (UMass).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of our folks unaccountably left the subzero weather of Boston to travel to Los Angeles for the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) last weekend at USC. Coppe van Urk presented a talk entitled Intermediate positions in Dinka: Evidence for feature-driven movement, and Juliet Stanton spoke on &#8220;Factorial typology and accentual faithfulness&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5883","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\/5883","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}