The 50th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50) will be hosted at MIT this week, from October 25–27.
Several of our current students will give talks or present posters:
- Christos Christopoulos and Stanislao Zompì (3rd year) — Strong Case Containment is too strong: two arguments from defaults
- Justin Colley (5th year) and Dmitry Privoznov (5th year) — On the topic of subjects: composite Probes in Khanty
- Colin Davis (5th year) — The nature of overlapping A-bar chains as revealed by parasitic gaps
- Fulang Chen (3rd year) — Split partitivity in Mandarin: A diagnostic for argument-gap dependencies
- Danfeng Wu (4th year) — Why *”if or not” but ✓”whether or not”
- Vincent Rouillard (3rd year) — A Unified Analysis of Temporal in-adverbials
- Sherry Yong Chen (3rd year) — Deriving Wh-Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese: Wh-movement and (Island) Identity
- Enrico Flor (2nd year) — Velar Palatalization in Modern Italian inflectional morphology
- Émile Enguehard (visiting student) — Minimal sufficiency readings of necessity modals
And here are some of the alumni who will also present their work:
- Paul Marty (PhD 2017) and Jacopo Romoli — Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures
- Ezer Rasin (PhD 2018), Itamar Shefi and Roni Katzir (PhD 2008) — A unified approach to several learning challenges in phonology
- Kenyon Branan (PhD 2018) — The Left Edge Ban: a prosodic requirement governing stress patterns and word order
- Roumyana Pancheva and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (PhD 1982) — Temporal reference in the absence of tense in Paraguayan Guaraní
- Michelle Yuan (PhD 2018) — Deriving variation in ergativity across Eskimo-Aleut
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Michaela Socolof, Bernhard Schwarz and Aron Hirsch (PhD 2017) — Which-questions, uniqueness, and answerhood: evidence from disjunction
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Michael Erlewine (PhD 2014) — Counterexpectation, free choice, and concessives in Tibetan
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Paul Marty (PhD 2017) — Pronoun resolution, i-within-i effects and antecedent-contained deletion
- Sam Zukoff (PhD 2017) — Reduplicant Shape Alternations in Ponapean: Evidence Against Morphological Doubling Theory
- Jon Nissenbaum (PhD 2000), Qian Min Feng and Amy Wu — Perceived Pitch and Formant Frequencies in the perception of lexical tones in Cantonese
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Coppe Urk (PhD 2015) and Andrew Nevins (PhD 2005) — Person-number asymmetries in switch reference
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Bronwyn Bjorkman (PhD 2011) — Reduplication without segments: verb doubling as a prosodic repair
To celebrate the golden jubilee of NELS, alum Paul Kiparsky (PhD 1965) will give a special plenary address reflecting on the last 50 years in linguistics.