Talks

UConn Linguists at the LSA Virtual Annual Meeting

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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

    UConn Linguistics at BUCLD

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    The 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD45) is being held virtually from 5th-8th November 2020. UConn linguistics will be represented …

    … with talks by:

    • Shuyan Wang. Universal free choice inferences of dou-constructions in child Mandarin.
    • Emma Nguyen. Can “blick” be passivized? Depends on its meaning: A novel-verb study with English-speaking children.
    • Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at Western Sydney University) and Nichola Shelton. The Comparative-Superlative Generalization in child language.

    … and a poster presentations by:

    • Cory Bill, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Stephen Crain. Children’s interpretations of every … some sentences.

    UConn Linguistics at JK

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    The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference was held virtually from 7th-20th September 2020, hosted by the University of Central Lancashire. Several UConn linguists presented at the conference,

    … with talks by:

    • Jayeon Park, Satoshi Tomioka and Jon Sprouse. The sustained anterior negativity and syntactic movement dependencies in Korean
    • Yuta Sakamoto (PhD 2017, now at Meiji University). Apparent VP-ellipsis in Japanese: An Argument Ellipsis Account

    … and poster presentations by:

    • Hiroaki Saito (UConn/Mie University). On the independence of syntactic selection: a view from Japanese
    • Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Ristumeikan University). SAYing Appositive Clause and Its Relevance to Hearsay-ish Construction in Japanese
    • Yuya Noguchi. Clefts, freezing effects, and wh-movement in Japanese

    NACCL-32 at UConn

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    The 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), organized by the UConn Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, is going to be held online on September 18-20. Several UConn linguists are going to be presenting at the conference:

    • Shuyan Wang. A Prosodic Analysis of Mandarin Classifiers
    • Shengyun Gu. Agreement verbs with weak hand classifier in Shanghai Sign Language
    • Xuetong Yuan & Hiroaki Saito. Matrix shuo in Mandarin
    • Yuanyuan Zhang & Chui Yi Margaret Lee. NPIs and their attenuation effects: Zenme ‘how’ as a case in Mandarin Chinese
    • Nick Huang (National University of Singapore/UConn), Annemarie van Dooren & Gesoel Mendes. Wanting the future: the case of desire and future ​yao
    • Nick Huang (National University of Singapore/UConn). Nominal expressions without nouns in Mandarin

    UConn Linguistics at SuB

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    Sinn und Bedeutung 25 is being held virtually, co-hosted by University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), between 3-9 September 2020. Several UConn linguists will be taking part in the conference, including two talks:

    • Muyi Yang. Disambiguating two conditional construals: Evidence from the optionality of if (project page)
    • Xuetong Yuan. Extracting commitment: the case of Mandarin rising ba-declaratives (project page)

    and a Hangout Session on “Professional development in modern academia” co-organized by Magda Kaufmann and Diti Bhandra.