MIT Linguistics was well-represented at NELS 56, held at New York University from October 17–19, 2025. Two of our alums were invited speakers: Sam Alxatib (PhD 2013) of CUNY, gave a talk titled “Embedded tense: how to learn what some things can(not) mean (joint work with Spencer Caplan)”; and Tanya Bondarenko (PhD 2020), now a Harvard University, gave a talk titled “Selective opacity and clausal embedding”.
Here are the talks and posters presented by our faculty, current students and graduates in recent 10 years:
- Yiannis Katochoritis (3rd year): How I learned to stop worrying about distance and love the covert spec-head
- Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (dissertating student), Omri Doron (PhD 2025)[UMass]: Saving FACE: Fragment answers, copy theory, and radical trace conversion
- Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (dissertating student): Non-de dicto belief: Revision vs replacement
- Si Berrebi (Postdoc): Absolute neutralization in Modern Hebrew? An experimental study
- Peter Grishin (PhD 2023)[Brown University]: Could the Ban on Improper Movement be about binding after all?
- Tue Trinh (PhD 2011)[University of Nova Gorica], Danny Fox (Faculty, PhD 1998), Itai Bassi (PhD 2021)[ZAS; Ben Gurion University]: A unified theory of meta-questions
- Metehan Eryılmaz, Ömer Demirok (PhD 2019)[Boğaziçi University], Yağmur Sağ: From Numeral to Indefinite: A Kind-Sensitive Pathway in Turkish
- Michelle Yuan (PhD 2018)[UCLA], Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez: Clitic coalescence in San Juan Piñas Mixtec at the syntax-phonology interface
- Despina Oikonomou (PhD 2016)[University of Crete], Shigeru Miyagawa (Faculty), Onur Özsoy, Caroline Heycock, Georgios Vardakis, Rümeysa Bektaş: Condition C amelioration effects in wh-movement: An interaction between pronominal type and d-linking
- Shigeru Miyagawa (Faculty), Nozomi Moritake, Ken Wexler (Faculty): The Optional Infinitive Stage in Japanese
And more from our alums:
- Terrance Gatchalian, Jessica Coon (PhD 2010)[McGill], Lefteris Paparounas: A unified syntax and semantics of Kanien’kéha statives
- Idan Landau (PhD 1999)[Tel Aviv]: Silent Resumption: A New Test for Ellipsis
- Fake indexicals in relative clauses: licensing by phase
- Agentless Presuppositions of again: Meet Obligatory Control
- Jonathan David Bobaljik (PhD 1995)[Harvard]: The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy