Mayfest 2023: Howard’s Beginning

This year’s UMD Linguistics Department’s annual ‘Mayfest’ workshop is dedicated to Howard Lasnik on the occasion of his retirement. The program includes many of his UConn students and colleagues giving presentations honoring Howard’s long and illustrious career:

  • Željko Bošković. On subject positions, the EPP, and contextuality of syntax
  • Keiko Murasugi. Parameterization in Labeling: Evidence from Language Acquisition
  • Adolfo Ausín. The (lack of) structure of Phrasal Compounds
  • Mamoru Saito. In defense of covert wh-movement (after 40 years)
Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
Photo from Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn