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MIT Linguistics @ FASL 35

The 35th meeting of Formal Approaches to Slaviv Languages was hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz from May 1-3, 2026. The following students and alums presented their work:

  • Vlad Orlov (2nd year): Existential wh-words are still a question in Russian 
  • Marijana Marelj & Ora Matushansky (PhD 1998)[CNRS]: Against length-determined tone assignment in Serbo-Croatian
  • Marijana Marelj & Ora Matushansky (PhD 1998)[CNRS]: Two types of unaccusatives: evidence from Slavic Degree Achievements
  • Ivona Kučerová (PhD 1997)[McMaster University] & Edgar Onea: Topic pronouns in Czech: Argument drop in disguise