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The 55th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society happened from May 16th to 18th. Some of our students presented:

• Rafael Abramovitz (4th year) : Successive-Cyclic Wh-Movement Feeds Dependent Case Competition
• Tanya Bondarenko (2nd year) and Colin Davis (4th year),
  Linearization Asymmetries in Russian Sub-Extraction
• Colin Davis (4th year),
  Plural Suppletion in Barguzin Buryat: Case Containment versus *ABA
• Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (2nd year) and Sherry Yong Chen (2nd year),
  Ways of Decomposing Events: Structural Differences between Adnominal and Adverbial Distributive Numerals

Shigeru Miyagawa’s 2017 LI monograph, Agreement Beyond Phi, is now available under Open Access. It can be downloaded for free from the MIT Press website.

Stanislao Zompi (2nd year), together with Christos Christopoulos (UConn/Harvard), gave a talk at the “Connecting roots and allomorphy” (CRAFF) workshop in Brno (Czech Republic). Their talk was titled “How to avoid disjunctions in describing Indo-European stem-allomorphy”.

The 19th conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory happened at UCLA from May 17th to May 19th. The following members of our community presented:

• Tanya Bondarenko (2nd year) : From think to remember: how CPs and NPs combine with attitudes in Buryat
• Aron Hirsch (alumnus, joint work with Bernhard Schwarz) :
  Singular “which”, mention-some, and variable scope uniqueness
• Gregor Williamson (visiting MIT from UCL) : Conditional Antecedents as Polar Free Relatives

Norvin Richards spent May 17-18th at the Parameters Workshop in Honour of Lisa Travis at McGill University, where he spoke about how to detect Contiguity-prominence in his talk titled Contiguity-prominence: a prosodic parameter with syntactic consequences.

Whamit! will be on hiatus during the summer. We will continue to publish breaking MIT Linguistics news as it happens. Weekly posts will resume in the Fall 2019.

Much thanks to the editors, all readers, and contributors. See you all in the Fall!