The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) took place at UCLA over the weekend. MIT department members were presented both talks and posters
- Kenyon Branan (5th-year) and Abdul-Razak Sulemana (4th-year) Covert movement licenses parasitic gaps
- Ömer Demirok (4th year) Events are Entities: Evidence from Turkish Nominalizations
- Matthew Tyler (Yale) and Michelle Yuan (5th-year) Nominal-clitic case mismatches
- Colin Davis (3rd-year) The Syntax of Stranding at Edges
- Danfeng Wu (2nd-year) English expletives “there” and “it” originate low: Evidence from ellipsis
- Emily Clem (visitor) and Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley) The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs
- Kenyon Branan (5th-year) and Colin Davis (3rd-year) Edges and Unlocking: Evidence from Chichewa