MIT was well represented at the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 17 (WAFL 17), held on September 27-29 at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar. Current students, faculty members and alumni presented talks and posters:
Eunsun Jou (5th year): “Positional restriction on case assignment: Evidence from Korean nominal adverbials” (talk)
Yeong-Joon Kim (5th year): “A Generative Phonetic Approach to the Sound Change in Kyengsang Korean” (talk)
Norvin Richards (faculty): “Placing wh-phrases in Altaic: a Turkish case study” (invited talk)
Mamoru Saito (PhD 1985): “Null arguments in EA languages revisited: Ellipsis or Pronoun” (invited talk)
Isaac Gould (PhD 2015) and Sam Alxatib (PhD 2013): “The diagnostic status of non-negative contexts for negative concord: The view from Turkish” (talk)
Lisa Bylinina, Natalia Ivlieva (PhD 2013) and Alexander Podobryaev (PhD 2014): “Balkar participle da and domain maximality” (talk)
Sam Alxatib (PhD 2013) and Yasutada Sudo (PhD 2012): “Temporal ‘made’ in Japanese and its interaction with aspect and polarity” (poster)
Dmitry Privoznov (PhD 2021): “Causatives: A modal account” (talk)
Here’s a group photo of some of the presenters, along with faculty member Shigeru Miyagawa who is WAFL’s co-founder (with Jaklin Kornfilt).
