{"id":6557,"date":"2014-11-03T10:27:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2014-11-03T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T21:42:28","slug":"nels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/11\/03\/nels\/","title":{"rendered":"NELS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NELS 45 was held at MIT over the week end and it was a success! The following MIT students and faculty gave talks or presented posters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/rogerschwarzschild\/\">Roger Schwarzschild<\/a>, one of the three invited speakers: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Schwarzschild.pdf\">Markers of mass and count<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Third year student <a href=\"http:\/\/prosodylab.org\/lab\/aron-hirsch\/\">Aron Hirsch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/wagner\">Michael Wagner<\/a> (McGill): <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Hirsch.pdf\">Prosodic evidence that parentheticals are placed by rightward movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>First year student Erin Olson, fifth year student <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ayakasug\/www\/\">Ayaka Sugawara<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hackl\/www\/\">Martin Hackl<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Olson.pdf\">Processing only: Scalar presupposition and the structure of ALT(S)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Second year student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~rasin\/\">Ezer Rasin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.tau.ac.il\/segel\/rkatzir\/\">Roni Katzir<\/a> (Tel Aviv): <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Rasin.pdf\">A learnability argument for constraints on underlying representations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Third year student <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/juliets\/www\/home.html\">Juliet Stanton<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Stanton.pdf\">Wholesale Late Merger in A&#8217;-movement: Evidence from preposition stranding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pies.ucla.edu\/students\/ryan.html\">Ryan Sandell<\/a> (UCLA) and third year student <a href=\"https:\/\/mit.academia.edu\/SamZukoff\">Sam Zukoff<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Sandell.pdf\">A new approach to the origin of Germanic strong preterites<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Visiting student <a href=\"http:\/\/people.linguistics.mcgill.ca\/~brian.buccola\/\">Brian Buccola<\/a> (McGill): <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Buccola.pdf\">Global semantic constraints: The case of Van Benthem&#8217;s Problem <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of MIT alumni were present:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dingo.sbs.arizona.edu\/~hharley\/\">Heidi Harley<\/a> (PhD 1995), one of the three invited speakers, now Professor at the University of Arizona: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Harley.pdf\">Aggressive Passives in Haiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/prittypatelgrosz.wordpress.com\/\">Pritty Patel-Grosz<\/a> (PhD 2012), now at the University of T\u00fcbingen: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/PatelGrosz.pdf\">Different again<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dorothy Ahn (Harvard) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_sauerland.html\">Uli Sauerland<\/a> (PhD 1998), now at ZAS: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Ahn.pdf\">Reverse quantification with proportional quantifiers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/\">Michael Y. Erlewine<\/a> (PhD 2014), now at McGill: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Erlewine.pdf\">On the position of focus adverbs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.institutnicod.org\/membres\/archives-38\/2013-2014\/doctorants-stagiaires-638\/podobryaev-alexander-mit\/?lang=fr\">Alexander Podobryaev<\/a> (PhD 2013), now at HSE Moscow: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Podobryaev.pdf\">Syntax and semantics of person in coordinations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.uu.nl\/~Ora.Matushansky\/personal\/\">Ora Matushansky<\/a> (PhD 2002), now at the CNRS and Utrecht: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Matushansky.pdf\">On being [feminine] and [proper]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rci.rutgers.edu\/~mabaker\/\">Mark Baker<\/a> (PhD 1984), now at Rutgers: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Baker.pdf\">Applicative markers as agreement with PP in Amharic<\/a> (co-authored with Ruth Kramer (Georgetown))<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.umass.edu\/scable\/\">Seth Cable<\/a> (PhD 2007), now at UMass: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Cable.pdf\">Graded Tenses in Complement Clauses: Evidence that Future is not a Tense<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/magrigrg\/home\">Giorgio Magri<\/a> (PhD 2009), now at the CNRS and Utrecht: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Magri.pdf \">The error-driven ranking algorithm learns inventories of obstruents<\/a> (co-authored with Rene Kager (Utrecht))<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/files.nyu.edu\/tkm214\/public\/index.html\">Tara McAllister Byun<\/a> (PhD 2009), now at NYU: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/McAllisterByun.pdf\">Parallels in speech acquisition and loss as evidence for a grammar of articulatory reliability<\/a> (co-authored with Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley) and Yvan Rose (MUN))<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Bylinina (Meertens), <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/natashaivlieva\/\">Natalia Ivlieva<\/a> (PhD 2013), now at the CNRS, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.institutnicod.org\/membres\/archives-38\/2013-2014\/doctorants-stagiaires-638\/podobryaev-alexander-mit\/?lang=fr\">Alexander Podobryaev<\/a> (PhD 2013), now at the HSE Moscow, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ysudo\/www\/\">Yasutada Sudo<\/a> (PhD 2012), now at UCL: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Bylinina.pdf\">A non-superlative semantics for ordinals and the syntax of comparison classes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joanna Zaleska (Leipzig) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/pals\/people\/profiles\/academic-staff\/andrew-nevins\">Andrew Nevins<\/a> (PhD 2004), now at UCL: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Zaleska.pdf\">Transformational language games and the representation of Polish nasal vowels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/natashaivlieva\/\">Natalia Ivlieva<\/a> (PhD 2013), now at the Institut Jean-Nicod\/CNRS: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Ivlieva.pdf\">Deriving multiplicity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickgrosz.org\/Home.html\">Patrick Grosz<\/a> (PhD 2011) and <a href=\"http:\/\/prittypatelgrosz.wordpress.com\/\">Pritty Patel-Grosz<\/a> (PhD 2012), now at Tuebingen: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Grosz.pdf\">Re-evaluating the distinction between personal and demonstrative pronouns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wurmbrand.uconn.edu\/Susi\/Home.html\">Susi Wurmbrand<\/a>, now at UConn: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Wurmbrand.pdf\">Restructuring cross-linguistically<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amor.cms.hu-berlin.de\/~ottdenni\/\">Dennis Ott<\/a>, visiting student at MIT in 2013, now at Humboldt: <a href=\"http:\/\/nels45.mit.edu\/abstracts\/Ott.pdf\">On the form and meaning of appositives<\/a> (co-authored with Edgar Onea (Goettingen))<\/li>\n<li>MIT alumni <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.tau.ac.il\/segel\/rkatzir\/\">Roni Katzir<\/a> (PhD 2008), now at Tel-Aviv, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/wagner\">Michael Wagner<\/a> (PhD 2005), now at McGill, co-authored papers with current MIT students (see above)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> A picture of Mitcho&#8217;s poster presentation:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitcho's poster presentation\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20141031_133307164.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NELS 45 was held at MIT over the week end and it was a success! The following MIT students and faculty gave talks or presented posters: Roger Schwarzschild, one of the three invited speakers: Markers of mass and count Third year student Aron Hirsch and Michael Wagner (McGill): Prosodic evidence that parentheticals are placed by [&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-6557","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\/6557","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=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}