GLOW 38 was held last week in Paris. Several third year students from MIT had poster presentations or talks:
- Lilla Magyar: The role of universal markedness in Hungarian gemination processes
- Chris O’Brien: How to get off an island
- Juliet Stanton: The learnability filter and its role in the comparison of metrical theories
- Benjamin Storme: Aspectual distinctions in the present tense in Romance and cross-linguistically
Sabine Iatridou was also there and talked about Conditionals in Turkish and their absence.
Three recent alumni gave talks:
- Claire Halpert (PhD 2012; University of Minnesota): Raising Parameters
- Hadas Kotek (PhD 2014; McGill University): Intervention everywhere!
- Guillaume Thomas (PhD 2012; Pontifical Universidade Católica): Rising scale segments: additivity, comparison and continuation
20th century MIT Linguistics was represented by two alumni, co-authors of the following papers:
- Sarah Ouwayda and Ur Shlonsky (PhD 1987; Université de Genève): Order in the DP
- Dorothy Ahn and Uli Sauerland (PhD 1998; ZAS Berlin): Relative Measures: Implications for the Semantics and Syntax of Pseudo-Partitives