NELS 52 was held virtually at Rutgers University. The following students, faculty, and staff members presented at the conference.
- Trevor Driscoll (2nd year): Voicing as a diagnostic of foot structure
- Fulang Chen (5th year): On split partitivity, external possession, and the phasehood of Mandarin DP
- Danfeng Wu (6th year): Syntax of negation in corrective “but” sentences
- Ido Benbaji (3rd year): A new argument against Verb-Stranding VP-Ellipsis: The case from focus particles in polar questions
- Dmitry Privoznov (postdoc, PhD 2021): A Spell Out theory of adjunct islands
- Patrick Elliott (postdoc): A Q-based theory of pied-piping in relative clauses
- Sherry Yong Chen (5th year), Cindy Torma (Lab Manager), and Athulya Aravind (professor, PhD 2018): Asymmetry in Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals: Evidence from Acquisition
- Jad Wehbe (3rd year) and Enrico Flor (4th year): Focus sensitivity and homogeneity in attitude predicates
Many of our alums also gave presentations:
- Richard Stockwell, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, and Dominique Sportiche (PhD 1983): Experimental evidence for the Condition C argument-adjunct asymmetry in English questions
- Colin Davis (PhD 2020): The Morpho-Syntactic Significance of the Unextractability of English Possessive Pronouns
- Coppe Van Urk (PhD 2015) and Zhouyi Sun: Dinka plural morphology is concatenative and regular
- Aron Hirsch (PhD 2017) and Bernhard Schwarz: Reconciling maximality with cumulativity in questions
- Wataru Uegaki (PhD 2015): Doubt, highlighting and exhaustification
- Karlos Arregi (PhD 2002) and Emily Hanink: Reverse Weak PCC in Washo
- Suzana Fong (PhD 2021): Nominal licensing via dependent case: the view from Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Wolof
- Deniz Satik and Susanne Wurmbrand (PhD 1998): The unavailability of temporal de re in English infinitives
- Stefan Keine, Will Oxford, and Jessica Coon (PhD 2010): Person restrictions depend on overt agreement, not nominal licensing
- Bridget Copley (PhD 2002) and Alda Mari: Ingredients for a causal analysis of order and forbid
- Idan Landau (PhD 1999): Argument Ellipsis as pro-replacement after TRANSFER
- Isabelle Charnavel and Dominique Sportiche (PhD 1983): Unifying intensifiers ourselves
And one alum gave an invited talk:
- Lisa Cheng (PhD 1991): All about “hit”