Our students, alums and faculty were represented in force at the 43rd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 43, last weekend at the CUNY Graduate Center. Five current and two faculty members presented talks and posters:
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine & Hadas Kotek talked about “Diagnosing covert pied-piping”.
- Sam Steddy presented a poster offering “A regular rule of palatalization in Italian verbs”.
- Coppe van Urk and Maziar Toosarvandani presented a poster on “Directionality and Intervention in nominal concord: Evidence from Zazaki ezafe”.
- Coppe also presented his joint work with Norvin Richards in a talk entitled “On the architecture of long-distance extraction: evidence from Dinka”.
Two of last summer’s PhDs also presented talks at NELS.
- Yasutada Sudo (now at CNRS/ENS/Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) presented a poster about “Person and number features on bound pronouns and the structure of indices”.
- Guillaume Thomas (also at CNRS/ENS/Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) spoke on “Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá.
— as did several recent grads:
- Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) talked about Distance distributivity and pluractionality in Tlingit (and beyond)
- Jessica Coon (McGill) spoke on Predication, predicate fronting, and what it takes to be a verb”
- Recent visitor Barbara Citko (University of Washington) teamed up with alum Martina Gračanin Yuksek (Middle East Technical University) to speak about “Wh-coordination in free relatives”
The group of MIT alums presenting talks and posters also included Philippe Schlenker, Julliette Blevins, Hyon Sook Choe and Susi Wurmbrand — and many other former visitors, visiting faculty and other friends! As always, a great conference, and a bit of a reunion at the same time.