The 51st & 52nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) will take place virtually on April 8-10, hosted by The University of Florida’s Department of Linguistics, and UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Vicki Carstens. Unlocking coordinate structures: Agreement with conjoined objects in Swahili
• Ari Goertzel. Pseudo-Incorporation and the structure of Mandinka DPs
• Pasha Koval. The hypersensitive agreement in Akebu
• Margaret Chui Yi Lee. On the partitivity of doo in Mandinka
• Beccy Lewis. The affixal article in Mandinka

The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) will take place virtually on April 8-11, hosted by The University of Arizona’s Department of Linguistics, and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with a talk by:

• Željko Bošković. Broadening and localizing the Comp-trace effect

… and a poster presentation by:

• Si Kai Lee. Agreement-drop in Singlish: Subject to Topichood

The 45th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 19-21, 2021 and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with talks by:

• Teruyuki Mizuno. Argument ellipsis and topicalization: a view from their interaction with wh-dependencies
• Yusuke Yagi. Unifying concessive conditionals and unconditionals in Japanese

The 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) hosted by the University of Freiburg, is taking place virtually between February 23rd-26th and UConn linguistics will be represented at the satellite workshop on “The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives” with talks by:

• Magdalena Kaufmann and John Whitman. Conditional conjunctions informed by Japanese and Korean
• Muyi Yang. Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics

The Sixth Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+6), hosted by the University of Toronto, will take place virtually between February 19th-20th and UConn linguistics will be represented at the workshop with talks by:

• Robin Jenkins. Specificity Effects and Object Movement In Turkish and Uyghur
• Beccy Lewis. Approximative Inversion in Turkish

… and a poster presentation by:

• Sarah Asinari and Si Kai Lee. Variable Conjunct Agreement in Qaraqalpaq

The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place virtually between January 7th-10th and UConn linguistics was represented at the conference by:

• Sarah Asinari. Interrogative vs. Non-Interrogative Quantifier Float in Dialectal English (poster)
• Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore). Coordinate Structure Constraint and Conjunction Agreement
• Troy Messick (PhD 2017, now at Rutgers University). 3/4 agreement patterns beyond hybrid nouns