The Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL8) was held at the University of Stuttgart, May 18-20.
Sabine Iatridou and Masa Koizumi (‘95) were keynote speakers.
The following MIT-associated linguists gave presentations: İsa Kerem Bayırlı (incoming graduate student), Shin Ishihara (‘03), Shigeru Miyagawa & Hedde Zeijlstra (former visiting instructor), Junya Nomura, Alexander Podobryaev and Sergei Tatevosov (former visiting instructor).