This year, the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) took place at University of Washington on April 25-27. MIT was well-represented by the following current and very recently graduated students with their work:
- Yiannis Katochoritis (2nd year), Magdalena Lohninger: Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots
- Giovanni Roversi (5th year): “Non-local A-movement” is predicted to exist, and it does
- Fulang Chen (PhD 2023)[Gridspace]: The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative constructions
- Zachary Feldcamp (3rd year), Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (6th year): Structure matters: missing implicatures and their consequence for the theory of alternatives
- Yurika Aonuki (3rd year): ‘Irrealis’ particle ji in Gitksan
- Yiannis Katochoritis (2nd year): An argument for Syntactic Reconstruction: Distributivity as Variable Binding
- Haoming Li (3rd year): Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in Mandarin Chinese
- Zhouyi Sun (3rd year), Peter Grishin (Postdoc; PhD 2023): Ordering postsyntactic operations within domains
