{"id":9870,"date":"2017-05-01T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2017-05-01T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:16:01","slug":"mit-wccfl-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/01\/mit-wccfl-35\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ WCCFL 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Calgary organized this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/wccfl35yyc\/home\"><strong>West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics<\/strong><\/a>. 1st year grad student <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/neilb\/\">Neil Banerjee<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OmVjOTZiOWQ2NTlkNmQyOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trouble with attitudes and the future<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/heidiharley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Heidi Harley<\/a>\u00a0(PhD &#8216;95) were keynote speakers and several current students and alumni presented their work:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/hanzhi\/\">Hanzhi Zhu<\/a> (3rd year grad student)<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OjY2YWEyZWI0MDQxNDA0MmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desonorization in Kyrgyz: Licensing\u00a0by cue, not syllable contact<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nico Baier (UC Berkeley) &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/yuanm\/www\/\">Michelle Yuan<\/a> (4th year grad student): <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OjE4NmU1NzAwNzVkYTY1NGU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deriving anti-agreement with bound\u00a0variables: feature transmission and\u00a0impoverishment<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rafaeln.github.io\/\">Rafael Nonato<\/a> (PhD &#8216;14)<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OjVmZWI4ZTZjNmQwMTgwZjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skewed AGREE: accounting for a\u00a0closest-conjunct effect with semantic\u00a0implications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/%7Ekucerov\/mcmaster\/syntax_lab_at_McMaster.html\">Ivona Ku?erov\u00e1<\/a> (PhD &#8216;07) <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&amp;\u00a0Adam Szczegielniak (Rutgers): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OjZkMGY1NjdjYjJiMTc3OA\">A dual theory of roots: Evidence\u00a0from gender-marking languages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/udel.edu\/%7Ebruening\/\">Benjamin Bruening<\/a> (PhD &#8216;01) &amp; Eman Al Khalaf (U. Jordan): <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3Y2NmbDM1eXljfGd4OjQxNTk3ZTdjYjhkNWZhMTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No argument-adjunct distinction in\u00a0reconstruction for binding\u00a0Condition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9889\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<small>Neil during his keynote [thanks Hanzhi for the picture!]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Calgary organized this year&#8217;s West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 1st year grad student Neil Banerjee (Trouble with attitudes and the future) and Heidi Harley\u00a0(PhD &#8216;95) were keynote speakers and several current students and alumni presented their work: Hanzhi Zhu (3rd year grad student): Desonorization in Kyrgyz: Licensing\u00a0by cue, not syllable contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}