The Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting for 2019 was held at in New York in January. As per usual, MIT was well represented. The following department members presented talks and posters:
- Tanya Bondarenko and Colin Davis –
Parasitic gaps diagnose concealed pied-piping in Russian - Shumian Ye (visitor, Peking University) –
Biased A-not-A questions in Mandarin Chinese - Carolyn Spadine and Gunnar Lund –
Complementizers in matrix contexts: Reporting attitudes without attitude verbs - Juliet Stanton (alumna) and Donca Steriade (faculty) –
Modified cyclicity: the stress of English Latinate derivatives - Edward Flemming –
Implications of [i] vowels for the theory of vowel inventories - Colin Davis –
English Possessor Extraction - Rafael Abramovitz and Adam Albright (faculty) –
Morphological feature deletion without metasyncretism - Kenyon Branan (alumnus) and Colin Davis –
Agreement and Unlocking at the Edge - Veronica Boyce (BCS), Titus von der Malsburg, Till Poppels, Roger Levy (BCS) –
Female gender is consistently under-expressed in pronoun production and under-inferred in comprehension
Alumni who presented or organised symposia include: Ezra Keshat, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Jon Nissenbaum, Aron Hirsch, Michelle Yuan, Hadas Kotek, Coppe Van Urk.