The 53rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society was held at the University of Göttingen on January 12-14, 2023. Here are the presentations made by current MIT linguists:
- Ido Benbaji (4th year), Omri Doron (4th year) and Adèle Hénot-Mortier (4th year): Distinguishing levels of morphological derivations in world-embedding models
- Janek Guerrini (visiting student): Keeping ‘fake’ simple: a similarity-based theory
- Ido Benbaji (4th year) and David Pesetsky (faculty): E-extension and the Uniformity of Silence
- Peter Grishin (5th year): How to covertly move: Evidence from Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey
- Haoming Li (1st year): The Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetrical ATB Wh-constructions in Mandarin Chinese
- Zhouyi Sun: Mixed probe, competing for licensing and information-structural neutrality in Shiluk
Other recent alumni who presented their work include:
- Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (Phd 2011), Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, Daniel Siddiqi and Isabelle Boyer: Limits on pronominal gender: A semantic account of a morphologicla pattern
- Carol Rose Little, Scott Anderbois and Jessica Coon (PhD 2010): The iota type-shifter in headless relative clauses: Implications from Mayan
- Andrew Nevins (PhD 2005) and Diane Stoianov: Word Order and Differential Object Marking in Three Cohorts of CENA Signers
- Yağmur Sağ & Ömer Demirok (PhD 2019): Getting even without “even” in Turkish
- Coppe van Urk (PhD 2015) and Adam Chong: On the preference for nonconcatenative morphology in Dinka
- Jessica Coon (PhD 2010) and Martina Martinović: Predication, Specification, and Equation in Ch’ol
- Gaurav Mathur (PhD 2000) and Christian Rathmann: Constraints on interactions between morphological processes and gesture in signed languages
- Suzana Fong (PhD 2021): Pronouncing PRO in Wolof
- Michela Ippolito (PhD 2002): The Hell Bias
- Aron Hirsch (PhD 2017) and Bernhard Schwarz: Type disambiguation and logical strength