Diane Lillo-Martin and Shuyan Wang will present a poster, titled “Children’s online processing of scalar implicatures”, at the 2025 edition of the conference on Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025), hosted by the University of Zurich, September 1st-2nd 2015.
Talks
Kaufmanns | Invited talks in Tokyo and Sapporo
Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann gave a series of invited talks in August:
- Stefan Kaufmann gave two lectures on “Probabilistic Semantics for Modality and Conditionals” at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, on August 5 (co-hosted by Daisuke Bekki, Ikumi Imani, and UConn alum Teruyuki Mizuno, PhD 2023)
- Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann each gave a talk at a workshop on “Future Developments in Formal Semantics” at Sapporo City University, Sapporo, August 18-19:
- Magdalena Kaufmann. Perspectives on Modals
- Stefan Kaufmann. Import/Export and Other Conditional Invalidities
Stegovec mini-course at UNG
Adrian Stegovec taught a mini-course at the University of Nova Gorica – Center for Cognitive Science of Language, between 17th June and 1st July, titled “Restrictions on the order and (co-)occurrence of clitic pronouns: From Slovenian to the world and back again”. The course consisted of five lectures:
- Setting the stage: Restrictions on the order and (co-)occurrence of clitic pronouns
- Person-based restrictions on Slovenian clitics: PCC or not PCC?
- A typological investigation of person restrictions
- A typological gap and why it’s there
- Finding the source of person restrictions
UConn Linguistics at JK
The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, organized by Cornell University, took place on June 13-15, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Qiushi Chen. On the dual status of -e- in Old Japanese verbal morphology
- Xuetong Yuan (PhD 2024, now at University of Chicago). Evaluativity and practicality in conditionals: the case of tewa
Stegovec at BieLeiCos
Adrian Stegovec gave an invited talk, titled On the correlation between pronoun type and person restrictions at the Bielefeld-Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025 (BieLeiCos) which took place on May 22nd-23rd at Bielefeld University, Germany.
UConn Linguistics at CLS
The 61st annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) took place at the University of Chicago on May 9-11, and UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Heesun Yang, Bum-Sik Park (PhD 2005, now at Dongguk University), and Rongpei Ma. Negation and negative answers in Chinese
- Adrian Stegovec. Size and strength: on the correlation between pronoun type and person restrictions
- Qiushi Chen. Sometimes tripartite, sometimes neutral, but underlyingly nominative-accusative: On Ainu person indexation and its variations
… and poster presentations by:
- Stefan Kaufmann and Magdalena Kaufmann. Lifetime effects in X-marked conditionals
- Lydia Paleologou. Quantificational matching in indefinite argument drop.
Photo: Most of the UConn Linguistics contingent at CLS 61 (Heesun, Lydia, Adrian, and Qiushi).
UConn Linguists at WCCFL
The 42nd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), hosted by the University of Washington, Seattle, took place on April 25-27, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with a talk by:
- Linghui Eva Gan. Correlation between focus and the clause-final position in Hong Kong Sign Language
… and posters by:
- Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Can Adjuncts Be Elided? A Bimodal Approach to Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretation
- Si Kai Lee (PhD 2023, now at University of Chicago). Indeterminate determiners: a case study of Singlish prenominal relative clauses
Pictured: The UConn linguistics contingent at WCCFL (Yoshiki, Si Kai, and Eva).
UConn Linguistics at TEAL
The 14th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-14) took place in March 18-20th, hosted by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. UConn linguistics represented at the conference with poster presentations by:
- Mingjiang Chen. One Transition Point Hypothesis
- Jiayi Zhou and Marijke De Belder. Verbs or nouns? Mandarin compounds suggest a headedness model with probabilistic reasoning
… and a talk by:
- Brian Agbayani and Masao Ochi (PhD 1999, now at Osaka University). Tough constructions in Japanese and the Complex XP Constraint
UConn Linguistics at GLOW
The 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium will take place in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen on March 25-28th, 2025. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with a “long talk” (one of only six 45 minute talks) by:
- Qiushi Chen. A tale of two zeros: Lessons from person indexation in Japhug
… a “short talk” (25 minutes) by:
- Adina Camelia Bleotu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Agreement with singular disjuncts in adult and child language: A grammatical lacuna or a meaning-driven process
… and posters by:
- Mingjiang Chen. One Transition Point Hypothesis
- Yixuan Yan & Yitong Luo. Interpretations of two disjunctive morphemes in child Mandarin and their theoretical consequences
Photo: Most of the UConn contingent at GLOW (Qiushi, Yixuan, and Mingjiang):
UConn Linguists at the LSA Annual Meeting
The 2025 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place January 9-12 in Philadelphia. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Shane Blau (post-doc 2023-24), Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University), Elaine Gale. Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf Children with Hearing, Signing Families: Visual Communication and Vocabulary
- Penelope Daniel. Parameters of differential argument marking
- Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Wh-scope-marking in Tamil
… a poster presentation by:
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Jon Gajewski. On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora