A big welcome back to the department, everyone! Here are news of what some of us got up to during the summer:
- June 24: Shrayana Haldar presented an invited talk at one of LSA’s workshops, How Many Mothers: Multidominance in Syntax. It was titled Linearizing Disintegrated Traces.
- July 19: Jad Wedbe presented a talk at the homogeneity workshop HNM2, titled Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification.
- Aug 11: Yurika Aonuki presented a talk at UBC, titled Degree semantics in Gitksan and Japanese.
- Aug 14-15: Adèle Hénot-Mortier and Eunsun Jou presented posters at SICOGG 25! Adele presented Bridging the gap between French tough-constructions and pseudorelatives, while Eunsun presented Case Marking of Korean Nominal Adverbials Correlates with Subject Position.
- The 2023 LSA Linguistic Institute was hosted at UMass Amherst. Student participants from MIT included Taieba Tawakoli, Zhouyi Sun, and Shrayana Halder (see above). Several classes were taught by faculty and alums:
* Athulya Aravind ‘18 (Acquiring Word Meaning [cotaught])
* Mark Baker ‘85 (Complementizers Relating to Noun Phrases: Rare Constructions within a Theory of Universal Grammar)
* Seth Cable ‘07 (Introduction to Semantics)
* Jessica Coon ‘10 (Structure of Mayan)
* Ray Jackendoff ‘69 (The Parallel Architecture and its Components)
* Hadas Kotek ‘14 (Careers in Language Technology)
* Giorgio Magri ‘09 (What Exactly is Phonological Opacity? [co-taught] & Advanced Phonology)
* Elise Newman ‘21 (Feeding and Bleeding in Syntax)
* David Pesetsky ‘82 (Introduction to Syntax)
* Juliet Stanton ‘17 (Introduction to Phonology)
* Michelle Yuan ‘18 (The morpho-syntax of case and licensing) - Creteling 2023 was a smashing success! Pictured here is (most of) the CreteLing 2023 Faculty, Staff, and TAs along the beautiful coast:
