{"id":7555,"date":"2015-09-21T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T18:41:22","slug":"mit-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/09\/21\/mit-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four linguistics conferences were held in Europe over the last two weeks. <\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong> The <strong>20th Sinn und Bedeutung<\/strong> was held at the University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany (September 9-12 2015). <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/heim\/publications.html\">Irene Heim<\/a><\/strong> gave an invited talk in the Stechow workshop. Two MIT students presented posters. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fourth year <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prosodylab.org\/lab\/aron-hirsch\/\">Aron Hirsch<\/a><\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPteXpodXlVcTV6ZGM\/view?pli=1\">A compositional semantics for wh-ever free relatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edwin Howard<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtN05uMnJwMlROanc\/view?pli=1\">The Pragmatics of Verb-Initial Conditional Antecedents in English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three recent alumni gave talks and presented posters: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/\">Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/a><\/strong> (National University of Singapore; PhD 2014) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hkotek.com\/\">Hadas Kotek<\/a><\/strong> (McGill; PhD 2014)<br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B-OsdbVA5uPtRWRqS2k2TktuY0E\">Relative pronoun pied-piping, the structure of which informs the analysis of relative clauses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/people\/yasutada-sudo\">Yasutada Sudo<\/a><\/strong> (UCL; PhD 2012) and Giorgos Spathas (University of Stuttgart): <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtR1o1TkQ4bXRhY0U\/view?pli=1\">Nominal Ellipsis and the Interpretation of Gender in Greek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong> (McGill; PhD 2014): <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtMHRXZDBTWWVBRUk\/view?pli=1\">On the semantics of Wh Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Patrick Elliott and <strong>Yasutada Sudo<\/strong> (UCL): <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtRGRXT2hCbTlJRUk\/view?pli=1\">E-Type Readings of Quantifiers Under Ellipsis: Consequences for the Identity Condition<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two recent visiting students at MIT gave poster presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maria Del Mar Bassa Vanrell<\/strong> (The University of Texas at Austin \/ MIT): <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtQ3RlU25GQmJqWTA\/view?pli=1\">The puzzle of Punctual Until revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yaron McNabb, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, <strong>Dominique Blok<\/strong>, Rick Nouwen and Sophia Bimpikou (Utrecht Institute for Linguistics): <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-OsdbVA5uPtM1hWX3FpSHcyczQ\/view?pli=1\">The likelihood of upper-bound construals among different modified numerals: a cross-linguistic and experimental investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> The 12th <strong>Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<\/strong> conference (<strong>GALA 12<\/strong>) was held at the University of Nantes, Nantes (France) on September 10-12, 2015. An MIT student and a recent alumnus gave talks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Third year <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aaravind\/www\/about.html\"><strong>Athulya Aravind<\/strong><\/a> (with Martin Hackl & Ken Wexler): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gala2015.univ-nantes.fr\/servlet\/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?CODE_FICHIER=1438093020014&ID_FICHE=791360\">Subject-object asymmetries in the acquisition of clefts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ayakasug\/www\/\"><strong>Ayaka Sugawara<\/strong><\/a> (Mie University; PhD 2015) (with Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko & Ken Wexler): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gala2015.univ-nantes.fr\/servlet\/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?CODE_FICHIER=1438092986523&ID_FICHE=791360  \">Acquisition of quantifier scope: Evidence from English Rise-Fall-Rise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>(3)<\/strong> The University of G\u00f6ttingen hosted the <strong>G\u00f6ttingen Spirit Summer School on Negation<\/strong> on September 14th-17th, 2015. An MIT student and an MIT alumnus gave poster presentations.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Second year <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.academia.edu\/DanielMargulis\">Daniel Margulis<\/a><\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/G\u00f6-neg2015_poster_final.pdf\">When Negation Goes Mad: On the Puzzle of Expletive Negation<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Magda Oiry (UMass) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/hartman\/\">Jeremy Hartman<\/a><\/strong> (UMass; PhD 2012): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/de\/document\/download\/d14678a7fd37743094c27005ce285fec.pdf\/G-neg2015_paper_14.pdf\">The Interaction of Negation and Factivity in Acquisition<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>(4)<\/strong> The <strong>2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain<\/strong> (<strong>LAGB 2015<\/strong>) was held at University College London, 15-18 September 2015. The abstract booklet can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagb.org.uk\/Resources\/programmes\/LAGB2015abstracts.pdf\">here<\/a>. An MIT student and two alumni gave talks. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/steddy\/www\/\"><strong>Sam Steddy<\/strong><\/a> (UCL): Uniform and non-uniform analysis of bracketing paradoxes\n<\/li>\n<li>Fourth year <a href=\"http:\/\/bstorme.scripts.mit.edu\/site\/home.html\"><strong>Benjamin Storme<\/strong><\/a>: Modeling aspectual asymmetries in the past and in the present\n<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/cvanurk\/www\/\"><strong>Coppe van Urk<\/strong><\/a> (Queen Mary, University of London; PhD 2015): Pronoun copying and the copy theory of movement: Evidence from Dinka\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four linguistics conferences were held in Europe over the last two weeks. (1) The 20th Sinn und Bedeutung was held at the University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany (September 9-12 2015). 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