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MIT Linguistics @ WAFL 19

The 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 19) was held from June 30 to July 2, 2026 at ZAS. Two of our alumns gave an invited talk:

  • Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (PhD 2014)[CNRS / Nantes University]: Word order and interpretation order in Japanese scrambling
  • Ömer Demirok (PhD 2019)[Boğaziçi University]: Toward a typology of implicit arguments: Insights from Turkish passives

The following current students, faculty and alumns also presented their work:

  • Bergül Soykan (4th year): Limitations on meta questions: Insights from Turkish
  • Rümeysa Bektaş, Onur Özsoy, Despoina Oikonomou & Shigeru Miyagawa (Faculty): Condition C effects in wh-movement in Turkish: The effect of pronominal type
  • Yusuke Imanishi (PhD 2014)[Kwansei Gakuin University]: Explaining evidentiality syntactically: Evidence from Kikai