The MIT Linguistics community and its alums were well-represented at NELS 55, hosted by Yale University on October 17 & 18. Our distinguished alum Coppe van Urk (PhD 2015) of Queen Mary University of London, was one of the invited speakers, and spoke about “The cycle within a syllable: The role of the vP phase in Dinka morphophonology”. The following talks and posters were presented by our current students and visitors:
- Ioannis Katochoritis (2nd year) – Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka
- Magdalena Lohninger (Visiting student) – The A’/A signature: systematic patterns in composite A’/A probing
- Paul Meisenbichler (2nd year) – Interactions of worlds, times, and locations: On the expressive power of index shifting
- Oddur Snorrason (Visiting student) – HAVE-omission in Swedish: Towards a theory of auxiliary omission
- Anastasia Tsilia (4th year) – (In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian
… and these were the talks and posters by alums of the past decade … - Klaus Baki, Anthony D. Yates and Sam Zukoff (PhD 2017) [UCLA] – A phonology–morphosyntax interface explanation of the “nasal infix” in (Proto‑)Indo-European
- Suzana Fong (PhD 2021) [Memorial University of Newfoundland] – Reciprocal binding and syntactic ergativity in Adyghe
- Andrew Hedding and Michelle Yuan (PhD 2018) [UCLA] – Distinct pathways to possessor Ā-extraction in Mesoamerican languages
- Fulang Chen (PhD 2023) [Gridspace] and Ka-Fai Yip – Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of antilocality
- Luke Adamson and Stanislao Zompì (PhD 2023) [Potsdam] – Polite Pronouns and the PCC
- Peter Grishin (Postdoc, PhD 2023) [MIT] – Impersonal impersonals and personal third persons: An argument for binary [±PART]
… and their predecesors! - Karlos Arregi (PhD 2002) [University of Chicago] and Matthew Hewett – Singular they and the syntax of pronominal imposters
- Daiki Asami and Benjamin Bruening (PhD 2001) [University of Delaware] – Subjectless readings of again and the Kratzerian model of argument structure
- Jon Gajewski (PhD 2005) [University of Connecticut] – On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora
- Isabelle Charnavel, Tom Meadows and Dominique Sportiche (PhD 1984) [UCLA] – Meaningful Agreement Features: Evidence from indexical binding