{"id":7687,"date":"2015-10-19T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:04:14","slug":"mit-nels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/10\/19\/mit-nels\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ NELS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/\">46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society<\/a> was held at Concordia University (Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec) on October 16-18, 2015. The following MIT students gave talks or poster presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aaravind\/www\/about.html\">Athulya Aravind<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Aravind_Malayalam.pdf\">Minimality and WH licensing in Malayalam<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kenyon Branan: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Branan_CaseSensitiveA-bar1.pdf\">Case sensitive A-bar movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hirsch.mit.edu\/\">Aron Hirsch<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hirsch_DPconjuction.pdf\">\u0093DP conjunction\u0094 as vP conjunction: a case for conjunction reduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nslonge.scripts.mit.edu\/site\/\">Nicholas Longenbaugh<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Longenbaugh_Tough.pdf\">The Two predicates Tough<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~rasin\/\">Ezer Rasin<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rasin_PhonologicalArchitectureAnd1.pdf\">Phonological architecture and blocking in nonderived environments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/juliets.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">Juliet Stanton<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nels_2015_talk_stanton.pdf\">Effects of Allophonic Vowel Nasalization on NC Clusters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/yuanm\/www\/\">Michelle Yuan<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Yuan_CaseAndMorphosyntactic1.pdf\">Case and morphosyntactic anti-identity in Yimas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two of our most distinguished alums gave invited talks &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ling.umd.edu\/~hacquard\/\">Valentine Hacquard<\/a> (PhD 2006; UMD): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/invited-talks\/#hacquard\">Theme and variations in the expression of modality<\/a> (joint work with Ailis Cournan)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/omer.lingsite.org\/\">Omer Preminger <\/a> (PhD 2011; UMD): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/invited-talks\/#preminger\">Head movement, phrasal movement, and clitic doubling: towards a principled typology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and the following alumni (also distinguished!) gave presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Linguistics\/People\/Faculty\">Sam Alxatib <\/a> (PhD 2014; CUNY): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Alxatib_ActualityEntailmentIn1.pdf\">Actuality Entailments in Palestinian Arabic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.umass.edu\/scable\/\">Seth Cable<\/a> (PhD 2007; UMass): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nels_2015_talk_cable.pdf\">The Special Implicatures of Optional Past Tense: The Tlingit Decessive and \u0091Discontinuous Past\u0092<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.ku.edu\/isaac-gould\">Isaac Gould <\/a> (PhD 2015; UKansas): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Gould_ModelingVerbPlacement1.pdf\">Modeling Verb Placement Errors in Child Swiss German: The role of ambiguous evidence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hkotek.com\/\">Hadas Kotek <\/a> (PhD 2014; McGill), <a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/\">Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine <\/a> (PhD 2014; U. Singapore): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nels_2015_talk_KotekErlewine.pdf\">Unifying Definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from Mayan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/humweb7.bgu.ac.il\/idanl\/\">Idan Landau<\/a> (PhD 1999; Ben Gurion): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nels_2015_talk_Landau.pdf\">Hybrid Nouns and Agreement Zones within DP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tfranklevin\/\">Theodore Levin <\/a> (PhD 2015; UMD): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Levin_UnmarkedCaseIs1.pdf\">Unmarked case is unvalued Case: Default Voice in Formosan restructuring<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ysudo\/www\/\"> Yasutada Sudo <\/a> (PhD 2012; UCL): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nels_2015_talk_nicolaeetal_list.pdf\">List Readings of Conjoined Singular Which-Phrases<\/a> (joint work with Andreea Nicolae (ZAS) and Patrick Elliott (UCL))<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/wurmbrand.uconn.edu\/Susi\/Home.html\">Susi Wurmbrand<\/a> (PhD 1998; UConn): <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.concordia.ca\/nels46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wurmbrand_CrossingClauses.pdf\"> Crossing clauses covertly \u0097 difficult but not impossible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society was held at Concordia University (Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec) on October 16-18, 2015. 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