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MIT @ CLS 60

The 60th annual meeting of the Chicago Lingusitic Society (CLS60) was held on April 26—April 28, 2024. The following members of the department made presentations:

  • Shrayana Haldar (3rd year PhD student): Threefold ambiguity between Strong Necessity, Permission, and Weak Necessity in a Bengali Modal.
  • Giovanni Roversi (4th year PhD student): Exceptional A’-extraction in Austronesian informs theories of voice systems
  • Anastasia Tsilia (3rd year PhD student) & Zhuoye Zhao: Why is then incompatible with the present?
  • Yurika Aonuki (2nd year PhD student): Inherent context sensitivity in two unrelated degreeful languages
  • Kai von Fintel (Faculty): Unasked questions (Invited talk)
  • Tanya Bondarenko (PhD, 2022): Building the meaning of a long-distance question via prolepsis: the case of Georgian

 

(Photo credit: Giovanni Roversi)