Talks

UConn Linguists at NELS

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A number of UConn linguists will be presenting at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 52), which will be held online from October 29 to 31, 2021, hosted by the Rutgers University Department of Linguistics.

Diane Lillo-Martin will be one of the invited speakers and talks will be given by:

  • Yuya Noguchi. On a correlation between focus and island sensitivity in Japanese elliptical constructions
  • Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (PhD 2017, now at University of Iceland). Converging syntactic and phonological domains
  • Pasha Koval and Jon Sprouse. Relative Clause Extraposition in Russian is created by syntactic movement

With poster presentations by:

  • Ivana Jovović. Competing pronouns in Serbo-Croatian
  • Pasha Koval. On Multiple Sluicing and Coordination of Unlikes in Russian
  • Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Meghan Lim. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach

 

William Snyder | Tsing Hua University Colloquium

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William Snyder will be giving a colloquium talk at Tsing Hua University on 29th October 2021. The talk will be titled “Evidence from child language acquisition for a parametric model of syntax”

Abstract:

In this talk I will present three case-studies, each based on longitudinal records of children’s spontaneous speech, that illustrate what happens when a child’s syntax undergoes a change. The first case-study, examining the acquisition of English verb-particle constructions, shows a near-total absence of commission errors. The second, examining prepositional questions in the speech of children acquiring English or Spanish, shows (first) that children may go as long as 9 months producing both direct-object questions and declaratives with prepositional phrases, before they even attempt to ask a prepositional question; and (second) that at some point, abruptly, children begin producing prepositional questions that are correctly formed for the target language. The third case study shows that in children acquiring English, the onset of verb-particle combinations occurs almost exactly when that child begins producing novel noun-noun compounds. I will argue that these findings, taken together, strongly favor a parametric approach to cross-linguistic variation in syntax. I will argue further that the findings have implications for the format of parameters, and for the process by which children set them.

Information on how to attend the talk virtually can be found here.

 

Stefan Kaufmann | Algorithmic Arts & Humanities Colloquium

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Stefan Kaufmann will be speaking at the Algorithmic Arts & Humanities colloquium at the UConn Humanities Institute on October 21, 2021 at 12:30pm in HBL 4-209. The event will be livestreamed and you can attend in person. Here is the link for more information: https://humanities.uconn.edu/2021/10/11/dhms-presents-algorithmic-arts-humanities-at-uconn/

 

UConn Linguistics at Algonquian Conference

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The 53rd Algonquian Conference will be held online on October 14-17, 2021, hosted by Carleton University, Ottawa. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference by:

  • Ksenia Bogomolets (PhD 2020, now at The University of Auckland), Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University) and Adrian Stegovec. The blocking effect of Negation on Initial Change: Rescue by affix deletion
  • Ksenia Bogomolets. Person agreement prefixes across Algonquian: evidence for three separate paradigms

      UConn Linguistics at J/K

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      The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held online on October 9-11, 2021, co-hosted by Nagoya University and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference by:

      • Yuya Noguchi. Where is a monster?: A case study of indexical shift in Japanese
      • Koji Shimamura. (PhD 2018, now at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) The size of the complement: The properties of the embedded -yoo in Japanese
      • Yuta Tatsumi. (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University) Structural restrictions on sequential voicing in Japanese N-V compounds
      • Yusuke Yagi, Yuta Sakamoto (PhD 2017, now at Meiji University) & Yuta Tatsumi. Against syntactic Neg-raising: Evidence from polarity-reversed ellipsis in Japanese (poster)

          UConn Linguistics at SLS

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          The 16th annual Slavic Linguistics Society meeting (SLS) is being held virtually on September 3-5, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference by the following talks:

          • Ivana Jovović. Explaining the effect of focus and size on cataphora

          • Penka Stateva (PhD 2002, now at University of Nova Gorica). Developmental aspects of Maximize Presupposition: a view from Slovenian (plenary talk)

          • Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore). On CSC-violating movement in BCS