The 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 2023) took place at McGill University on April 28-30, 2023. Here are the people from MIT who presented, as well as MIT graduates:
Current MIT department members:
- Peter Grishin (5th year): CP–less clauses in Passamaquoddy
- Peter Grishin (5th year) and Will Oxford (Visiting Associate Professor): Three paths to portmanteau agreement
MIT alumni:
- Phil Branigan (PhD 1992): Excorporation through feature deletion
- Phil Branigan (PhD 1992) and Nicholas Welch: Ahtna verb formation and multiple head-movement
- Seth Cable (PhD 2007) and James Crippen: Stative Marking in Tlingit: Evidence for the Complexity of States
- Daniel Harbour (PhD 2003): The calculus of Kiowa tone
- Michelle Yuan (PhD 2018): Two restrictions on pronominal clitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Tò’ōn Ndā’ví)
From left to right: Daniel Harbour, Peter Grishin, Michelle Yuan, Jessica Coon (who was part of the conference organising team).
Thanks to Peter for sending along this photo!