A much-missed visitor from the 2024-2025 academic year, Adam Przepiórkowski, organized this year’s meeting of Generative Linguistics in Poland (GLiP), with MIT alums and faculty as invited speakers. Susi Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg) spoke on “Syntax as a function: A Redundancy and Deficiency approach to Grammar within linguistic behavior”; Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard) spoke about “Old and new objects: Word order and structure in Itelmen”; and David Pesetsky (MIT) gave a talk entitled “Generalized Dependent Case: Towards a maximally sparse theory of passive”.
Adam’s own talk, a joint presentation with colleague Sebastian Zawada, was entitled “Slavic case is not boring: Agreement in Polish copular clauses” (an elegant reply to a side-remark in a famous paper of Jonathan’s that suggested Slavic case might be). David and his fellow alums report that the event, hosted by the Institute of Computer Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPI PAN), was full of interesting papers, and was truly excellent meeting from every perspective.
(photo credit: Adam Przepiórkowski)
