MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy hosted a conference on phonology and morphology on September 8-10th to celebrate Morris Halle’s (1923–2018) centenary. UConn Linguistics was represented at the conference by the following presentations:

• Shengyun Gu. A sketch of contrastive handshapes and their variants in Shanghai Sign Language
• Hanyu Liu. Palatalization in Polish under the framework of feature geometry
• Walter Shaw. Upward reanalyses of verbal morphology in Proto-Celtic
• Andrea Calabrese. Remarks on Halle (2018)
• Harry van der Hulst. The phonology of synthetic compounds
• Andrea Calabrese & Laura Grestenberger. Accentuation and zero grade in the Vedic Sanskrit verbal system

The conference featured posters exclusively, and everyone can take a look at our posters through this link: http://m100.mit.edu/program.html

The 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL-6) took place on September 4-5th, hosted by the Goethe University, Frankfurt. UConn was represented at the conference with a talk by:

• Sharmin Ahmadi. The Status of Prepositions in Ditransitive Structures in Ardalani Kurdish

The 3rd Morphology as Syntax workshop is taking place on September 15-16th, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). UConn is going to be represented at the workshop with a talk by:

• Vicki Carstens. Bantu noun class as gender: exploring a little n approach

Sinn und Bedeutung 28, hosted by Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), is taking place September 5-8, 2023. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference, with the following talks:

• Muyi Yang (UConn 2023, now at Osaka University). Back to Boolean: Rethinking clausal conjunctions in attitude ascriptions
• Yu Hashimoto, Yusuke Yagi, and Hajime Mori. Dynamics and alternatives in unconditionals
• Yusuke Yagi. Local context of logical connectives is not universal: A case study of Japanese disjunction
• Adina Bleotu, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu (UConn 2013, now at University of Toronto), & Andreea Nicolae. Multiple disjunctions in child Romanian: On the possible sources of conjunctive readings

… and the following poster presentation:

• Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann, Teruyuki Mizuno (UConn 2023, now at Ochanomizu University), and Muyi Yang. Problem solving with Japanese ‘beki’

 

Picture: UConn contingent at SuB 28

The 2023 Tokyo Workshop on Computational and Theoretical Semantics took place at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo on July 21. UConn linguistics was represented at the workshop by:

• Muyi Yang (PhD 2023, now Osaka University). Back to Boolean: rethinking clausal conjunctions in attitude reports
• Teruyuki Mizuno (PhD 2023, now Ochanomizu University). Strategies for Anderson conditionals: their implications for the theory of O- and X-markings
• Magdalena  and Stefan Kaufmann. Just in case? 
• Stefan Kaufmann. Shifty if‘s iffy shifts

Muyi, Teru, Magda, and Stefan also took part in the Workshop in Semantics and Pragmatics at Komorebi in Ogoto-onsen, Shiga, July 24-25, where they presented Problem solving with Japanese “beki”.

(pictured: UConn linguistics contingent at the Ochanomizu University workshop)

The 2023 edition of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) was held at the University of Bergen, Norway, on June 27–29th and UConn linguistics was represented with a mini-presentation by:

• Shengyun Gu. Processing weak drop by signers and non-signers of Shanghai Sign Language

The 33nd conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) will take place on May 12-14th at Yale University. UConn will be represented at the conference with presentations by:

• Ka-Fai Yip, Ushasi Banerjee and Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Are there “weak definites” in bare classifier languages?
• Yusuke Yagi. Telescope of Incremental Quantification (poster)
• Vicki Carstens. Extraction evidence on the syntax of Xhosa nominal expressions (workshop on (In)definiteness & Genericity across Languages)