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The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

MIT at SNEWS 2014

The 2014 edition of the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS 2014) was held at UMass Amherst on Saturday. Three MIT students gave talks:

  • Fifth year student Wataru Uegaki: “Predicting the Variation in Exhaustivity of Embedded Questions”
  • Third year student Aron Hirsch: “An Unexceptional Semantics for Expressions of Exception”
  • Third year student Benjamin Storme: “Present perfectives in English and Romance”