NELS 2017 was held in Reykjavík, at the University of Iceland, from October 27th-29th. This NELS is the first one to not be on continental North America. However, Reykjavík is located on the edge of the North American tectonic plate, making this perhaps the most North-Eastern NELS possible while still (geologically) in North America.
A large contingent of MIT students participated in the conference:
- Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur Lan and Roni Katzir (visiting faculty) – Rule-based learning of phonological optionality and opacity
- Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir (visiting faculty) – Learning abstract URs from distributional evidence
- Tingchun Chen – Successive-cyclic case assignment in Amis: evidence from case-stacking
- Justin Colley – Object movement derives object preference
- Carolyn Spadine – Tigrinya attitude reports: arguments for syntactic perspective
- Itai Bassi and Nicholas Longenbaugh – Features on bound pronouns: an argument for a semantic approach
- Ömer Demirok – A Modal Approach to Dative Subjects in Laz
- Athulya Aravind and Kristen Syrett (Rutgers) – Investigating Context Sensitivity and Vagueness in Nominals in Child and Adult Language
- Michelle Yuan – M-merger and copy spell-out in Inuktitut noun incorporation
Additionally, alums Karlos Arregi (PhD 2002), Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (PhD 2011), Julie Anne Legate (PhD 2002), Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (PhD 2007), Rafael Nonato (PhD 2014), Alexander Podobryaev (PhD 2014), Omer Preminger (PhD 2011), Coppe van Urk (PhD 2015), and Susi Wurmbrand (PhD 1998) all presented work, along with many friends and former visiting scholars.