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MIT Linguistics at GLOW 31 in Newcastle

The GLOW31 Programme (March 25—29, Newcastle University) lists the following current MIT linguistics and recent PhDs:

  • David Pesetsky (MIT): “Same Recipe, Different Ingredients: Music Syntax is Language Syntax”
  • Omer Preminger (MIT): “Long-Distance Agreement in Basque, Locally Speaking”
  • Rajesh Bhatt (UMass, Amherst and Umass) and Shoichi Takahashi (Amherst/University of Tokyo): “When to reduce and when not to: crosslinguistic variation in phrasal”
  • Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (METU): “Linearizing Multidominance Structures”

And slightly less recent PhDs (last 10 years):

  • Jonathan Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut): “Word order and scope: transparent interfaces and the 3/4 signature”
  • Ora Matushansky (CNRS/Université Paris 8): “More of the same”
  • Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University): “What Case Transmission Tells Us About Control”
  • Marie-Hélène Côté (University of Ottawa): “Is syllabification categorical or gradient?”

[Thanks to David Pesetsky for this news item!]