The 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47) will be hosted at UMass Amherst, from 14–16 October.
Several current graduate students will present posters or give talks:
- Kenyon Branan (4th year graduate student) — Dependent Case as a licenser in Kikuyu [poster]
- Sam Zukoff (5th year graduate student) — Arabic Nonconcatenative Morphology and the Syntax-Phonology Interface [poster]
- Itai Bassi (2nd year graduate student) and Moshe E. Bar-Lev — A unified existential semantics for Bare Conditionals [poster]
- Milena Sisovics (4th year graduate student) — Permission and irony: the case of German “duerfen” [poster]
- Ezer Rasin (4th year graduate student) — Resumptive pronouns across components: evidence from Hebrew [poster]
- Jeremy Zehr, Aron Hirsch (5th year graduate student), Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin and Florian Schwarz — Priming local accommodation of hard triggers in disjunction
- Yihui Quek and Aron Hirsch — Separating focus meanings and focus forms in Standard and Colloquial Singapore English
- Ömer Demirok (3rd year graduate student) — Free Relatives and Correlatives in Wh-in-situ
Several alumni and current visitors will also present their work:
- Ken Hiraiwa (PhD ‘05; current visiting scholar) — Labeling Roots and Pronouns [poster]
- Luka Crnic (PhD ‘11) — More on less
- Isabelle Charnavel and Dominique Sportiche (PhD ‘83) — Icelandic sig: a standard anaphor, after all
- Ivona Kučerová (PhD ‘07) — On labeling of DP coordinations and the lack of phi-feature resolution in syntactic Agree
- David Adger, Alex Drummond, David Hall and Coppe van Urk (PhD ‘15) — Deconstructing Condition C Reconstruction [poster]
- Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland (PhD ‘98) and Artemis Alexiadou — Testing Plural Unmarkedness Across Languages
- Lauren Clemens and Jessica Coon (PhD ‘10) — VOS two ways: A unified account of V1 order in Mayan
- Jessica Coon, Stefan Keine and Michael Wagner (PhD ‘05) — Hierarchy effects in copular constructions: The PCC corner of German [poster]
- Theodore Levin (PhD ‘15) — Distinguishing object agreement and clitic doubling in Noun Incorporation constructions [poster]
- Michela Ippolito (PhD ‘02) — Indefinite Pronouns [poster]
- Shoichi Takahashi (PhD ‘06) and Ohtaka Akane — A Lacuna in Adjunct Extraposition
- Patrick Elliott, Nathan Klinedinst, Yasutada Sudo (PhD ‘12) and Wataru Uegaki (PhD ‘15) — Predicates of relevance and theories of question embedding
- Marie-Christine Meyer (PhD ‘13) and Uli Sauerland — Covert Across-the-Board Movement Revisited
- Hadas Kotek (PhD ‘14) — Movement and alternatives don’t mix: A new look at wh-intervention effects
- Coppe van Urk — Phase impenetrability and resumption in Dinka
- Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley, current visiting scholar) — Covert hyperraising to object
- Andres Salanova (PhD ‘07) and Javier Carol — The mirative evidential is neither surprise nor contradiction, but discovery
- Ora Matushansky (PhD ‘02) and Joost Zwarts — Making space for measures