UConn Linguists at WCCFL

The 42nd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), hosted by UC Berkeley, took place on April 12-14, 2024. UConn was well represented at the conference with talks by:

  • Vicki Carstens. The (un)interpretability of grammatical gender: asymmetries of AGR with conjoined subjects as a formal diagnostic
  • Yusuke Yagi. Some Reconstruction Effects are by Default Semantic
  • Qiushi Chen. How to realize your lower copy: Evidence from Chichewa object dislocation
  • Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Does merely hearing and boost implicatures with disjunction or is relevance also needed?

… and posters by:

  • Tarcisio Dias. Contextual markedness in Brazilian Portuguese size morphology
  • Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Across-the-board constructions in Japanese
  • Yosuke Sato & Hiromune Oda (PhD 2021, now at University of Tokyo). Variation in Particle Stranding Ellipsis in the Two-Grammar Model for Japanese.
  • Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) & Beth Chan. Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions.
  • Pasha Koval (PhD 2023, now at NYU Abu Dhabi) & Jon Sprouse. Relative Clause Extraposition in English is created by rightward syntactic movement.
  • Zixi Liu. How high can you get: Nominative object construction in Japanese

 

Pictured: Most of the UConn linguistics contingent at WCCFL

 


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