The world of linguistics this weekend saw not one, but two conferences with “Formal Approaches” in its name. At Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) hosted by the University of Maryland, Liudmila Nikolaeva (Liuda) presented a paper entitled “On the Nature of Preverbal Internal Arguments in Russian”, and Sasha Podobryaev presented a paper coauthored with Natasha Ivlieva on “How Many Splits in Russian: A View From LF”. All three are second-year graduate students.