The University of Delaware organized the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, which took place in April 20—23. MIT was represented by the following presentations:
Benjamin Storme (5th year grad student): Schwa-stem derivatives in French and gradient attraction
Nikos Angelopoulos & Dominique Sportiche (PhD ‘83): Romance Scrambling and Hierarchy within Clitic Clusters
Luca Iacoponi & Viviane Déprez (PhD ‘89): Negative Concord in Italian: An experimental approach
Sophie Harrington & Maria Cristina Cuervo (PhD ‘03): Mood selection under parecer (‘to seem’): introducing the polarity indicative [poster]