MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown from 1-9 January. Many of our current students, faculty, and visitors gave talks and posters:
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (6th year): On the QuD-dependence of conditionals
- Eunsun Jou (Postdoc; PhD 2024): Korean nonactive suffixes HI and eci are realizations of little v
- Christopher Legerme (4th year): Complementizer Agreement and Verb Fronting with Doubling in Haitian Creole
- Johanna Alstott (3rd year): Deriving ‘first’ and ‘last’ from ‘before’ and ‘after’: Evidence from Kinyarwanda
- Gianluca Porta, Elise Newman (Faculty; PhD 2021): Ne-cliticization and the DP/PP distinction: A case for Q
- Hadas Kotek (Faculty; PhD 2014): Strategies for career growth and promotion beyond your first (and second) job outside of academia
- Hadas Kotek (Faculty; PhD 2014), David Q. Sun, Zidi Xiu, Margit Bowler, Christopher Klein: Protected group bias and stereotypes in Large Language Models
- Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn (Faculty), Yoichi Miyamoto, Noriaki Yusa: Incremental or delayed processing? L2 learners’ active gap-filling in sentence comprehension
Several of our alumni also participated in the following presentations:
- Chris Collins (PhD 1993)[NYU]: Foundations of Minimalist Syntax: Steps Toward the Miracle Creed
- Luke Adamson, Stanislao Zompì (PhD 2023)[University of Potsdam]: The PCC and Polite Pronouns
- Lisa Sullivan, Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: French speakers’ use of sound symbolic patterns to assign gender to French and English nonce names
- Mark Baker (PhD 1985)[Rutgers]: Deriving Obligatory Control from Thematic Uniqueness