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MIT @ FASAL 14

The 14th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages, FASAL 14, was held at Stony Brook University on April 4—6, 2024. MIT linguistics was well-represented by the following members of the department. Unverified rumour has it that the earthquake in New York City on April 5 has something to do with their groundbreaking research. 

  •  Gurmeet Kaur and Yash Sinha (5th year): A novel account of mixed concord: the view from Punjabi honorifics
  • Shrayana Haldar (3rd year): Threefold ambiguity between Strong Necessity, Permission, and Weak Necessity in a Benjali Modal
  • Ruoan Wang (5th year): Tiered honorification in Eastern Indo-Aryan: [Hon]-less, and also presuppositionless
  • Athulya Aravind (Faculty): Malayalam long-distance anaphor taan: a null theory (Invited Talk)