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MIT Linguistics @ Amsterdam Colloquium 2024

The MIT Linguistics community actively participated in the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024 held at University of Amsterdam on December 18-20. Our current students and faculty gave the following talks:

  • Adèle Hénot-Mortier (6th year): Scalarity, information structure and relevance in varieties of Hurford Conditionals
  • Jad Wehbe (5th year), Kate Kinnaird (Lab Manager), Martin Hackl (Faculty; PhD 2001): Distributivity facilitates ACD resolution

Several of our recent alumni from the past decade presented:

  • Tatiana Bondarenko (PhD 2022)[Harvard], Richard Luo, Vincent Rouillard (PhD 2023)[Harvard]: Thinking Statively and Dynamically: a view from Georgian
  • Patrick Elliott & Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (PhD 2023)[Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg]: Ignorance under attitudes
  • Paloma Jeretic, Aurore Gonzalez, Itai Bassi (PhD 2021)[ZAS], Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland (PhD 1998)[ZAS]: DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives
  • Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, Maria Teresa Guasti: The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study

And their predecessors as well!

  • Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Kurt Erbach, Richard Breheny, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo (PhD 2012)[UCL]: Non-maximality effects in gestural plural predication
  • Andreea Nicolae, Yasutada Sudo, Muyi Yang: On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya
  • Lisa Bylinina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Yasutada Sudo: Priming NPI Acceptability Judgments and The Bagel Problem
  • Pranav Anand (PhD 2006)[UCSC], Natasha Korotkova: Facts, intentions, questions: English “come-to-know” predicates in deliberative environments
  • Wataru Uegaki (PhD 2015)[University of Edingurgh]: Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning