The Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting for 2018 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah in January. As per usual, MIT was well represented. The following department members presented talks and posters:
- Kenyon Branan – Determining what gets in the way
- Colin Davis – Cyclic Linearization Constrains Intermediate Stranding
- Suzana Fong – Featural definition of syntactic positions: evidence from hyper-raising
- Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband – Comprehending anaphoric presuppositions involves memory retrieval too
- Carolyn Spadine – Overt realizations of syntactic perspective: evidence from Tigrinya
- Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband – “Forward Lifetime Effects” and Non-Future Tense in Mandarin Chinese
- Hanzhi Zhu – Mandarin cai: a later-than-expected inference
- Matthew Tyler and Michelle Yuan – Case-assignment before and after clitic doubling: Evidence from Choctaw and Yimas
- Justin Colley – Object-preferring Agreement is derived by Object Movement
- Michelle Yuan – Inuktitut antipassive morphology and the Anaphor Agreement Effect
- Elise Newman and Danfeng Wu – A new analysis and prediction about Lubukusu agreeing complementizers
Alumni who presented or organised symposia include: Karlos Arregi (PhD ‘02), Benjamin Bruening (PhD ‘01), Aniko Csirmaz (PhD ‘05), Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (PhD ‘14), Clair Halpert (PhD ‘12), Bruce Hayes (PhD ‘80), Ezra Keshet (PhD ‘08), Paul Kiparsky (PhD ‘65), Hadas Kotek (PhD ‘14), Theodore Levin (PhD ‘15), Janet Pierrehumbert (PhD ‘80), and Coppe van Urk (PhD ‘15).