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MIT @ CLS 61

The 61st annual meeting of the Chicago Lingusitic Society (CLS61) was held on May 9—May 11, 2025. The following members of the department presented at the conference:

  • Haoming Li (3rd year) & Yizhen Jiang (2nd year): Modal presupposition and probability-sensitivity of negated indefinites
  • Norvin Richards (faculty): Agreement by proxy (invited talk)
  • Michael Kenstowicz (faculty): The replacement of Beijing Mandarin neutral tones in AABB reduplication (invited talk)
  • Adèle Hénot-Mortier (6th year): Repairing bad questions makes for good sentences: the case of but and at least
  • Peter Grishin (postdoc, PhD 2023): Raising to object versus long-distance agreement: consequences for improper movement
  • Haoming Li (3rd year), James Cooper Roberts (2nd year) & Yizhen Jiang (2nd year): Passamaquoddy quantifiers: outlier of distributivity-number generalization?
  • John Gluckman & Rotsuprit Saengthong (1st year): Tough in Thai
  • Si Berrebi (postdoc) & Sharon Peperkamp: Automatic talker-oriented associations of L2 phonetic variants
  • Zhouyi Sun (3rd year) & Peter Grishin (postdoc, PhD 2023): The ordering of postsyntactic operations: evidence from Algonquian