{"id":8167,"date":"2016-03-28T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2016-03-28T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:49:10","slug":"mit-goes-to-acal-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/03\/28\/mit-goes-to-acal-47\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT at ACAL 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our graduate students and two recent alums presented their work at <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/acal47\/index.html\">the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics<\/a> (ACAL) last week in Berkeley.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Second-year student <strong>Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/strong> presented a papret on &#8220;Wh-in-situ and intervention in B\u00f9l\u00ec&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Third-year student <strong>Kenyon Branan<\/strong> spoke about &#8220;Abstract dependent case: evidence from Kikuyu&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.umn.edu\/~halpert\/\">Claire Halpert<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2012) of the University of Minnesota was a plenary speaker. Her topic was &#8220;Surmountable Barriers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Newly minted alum <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.ku.edu\/isaac-gould\">Isaac Gould<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2015) co-presented (with Tessa Scott) a talk on &#8220;Two derivations for amba relative clauses in Swahili&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our graduate students and two recent alums presented their work at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) last week in Berkeley. Second-year student Abdul-Razak Sulemana presented a papret on &#8220;Wh-in-situ and intervention in B\u00f9l\u00ec&#8221;. Third-year student Kenyon Branan spoke about &#8220;Abstract dependent case: evidence from Kikuyu&#8221; Claire Halpert (PhD 2012) of [&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-8167","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\/8167","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=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8174,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}