MIT had a strong presence at this year’s LSA Annual Meeting, held Jan 2-5 in Minneapolis. The following talks and posters featured MIT presenters:
- Michael Erlewine: Association with traces and the copy theory of movement
- Michael Erlewine and Hadas Kotek: Morphological blocking in English causatives
- Iain Giblin and Sam Steddy: Disambiguating the Scope of In-Situ Wh-Phrases with Telugu Prosody
- Aron Hirsch and Martin Hackl: Presupposition projection and incremental processing in disjunction
- Yusuke Imanishi: When ergative is default: Ergativity in Mayan
- Patrick Jones: Cyclic evaluation of post-lexical prosodic domains: evidence from Kinande boundary tones
- Hadas Kotek: Intervention effects follow from Relativized Minimality
- Hadas Kotek and Martin Hackl: Wh-words must QR locally: evidence from real-time processing
- Theodore Levin: Pseudo-Noun Incorporation is M-Merger: Evidence from Balinese
- Miriam Nussbaum: The Interpretation of Indifference Free Relatives
- Juliet Stanton: A cyclic factorial typology of Pama-Nyungan stress
- Suyeon Yun : Two Types of Focus Movement
In addition Patrick Jones won a Student Abstract Award, for having one of the three highest-ranked abstracts authored by a student. Congratulations, Patrick!
Several recent alumni were also present:
- Bronwyn Bjorkman (University of Toronto): Multiple Agrees: Towards a non-unified theory of feature valuation.
- Claire Halpert (University of Minnesota) and Maria Stolen (University of Minnesota): Fixed aspect in Amharic Conditionals
- Ora Matushansky (Utrecht University) and E.G. Ruys (Utrecht University): Some indefinites are degrees
- Brian Buccola (McGill University) and Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University): On the expressivity of Optimality Theory vs. rules: An application to opacity
- Ivona Kucerova (McMaster University) and Rachael Hardy (McMaster University): Two scrambling strategies in German: Evidence from PPs
- Young Ah Do (Georgetown University): The asymmetrical base-inflected relation constrains child production and comprehension