The 59th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society was held over the weekend. The following members of our community presented at the conference:
- Boer Fu (6th year): Variation in Mandarin Prenuclear Glide Segmentation
- Fulang Chen (6th year): Causativization and affectedness in the Mandarin BA-construction
- Giovanni Roversi (3rd year): Adjectival “concord” in North Sámi is not concord (and it’s two different phenomena)
- Yash Sinha (4th year): Phi-concord in Punjabi singular honorific DPs
- Johanna Alstott (1st year): Scalar implicature in Adverbial vs Nominal Quantifiers: Two experiments
- Katya Morgunova & Anastasia Tsilia (2nd year): Why would you D that? On the D-layer in Greek clausal subjects
- Ksenia Ershova (postdoc): Phi-feature mismatches in Samoan resumptives as post-syntactic impoverishment
- Donca Steriade (faculty): Vowel-to-vowel intervals in Ancient Greek and Latin meters
Other recent MIT alums on the program include:
- Danfeng Wu (PhD, 2022): Elided material is present in prosodic structure
- Tanya Bondarenko (PhD, 2022): Conjoining embedded clauses is either trivial or redundant: evidence from Korean