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

The 9th Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference (CamCos 9) is taking place virtually from September 8th-11th, hosted by Cambridge University. The two invited talks will both be given by UConn alumni:

• Beata Moskal (PhD 2015, now at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt). How to be inclusive
• Klaus Abels (PhD 2003, not at UCL). The absence of Foc in the clausal spine

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.

The 15th annual Slavic Linguistics Society meeting (SLS) will be held virtually on September 4-6. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference:

• Željko Bošković. Distributed Extraction Coordinations (invited talk)

• Ivana Jovović. Pronominal licensing in BCS

• Adrian Stegovec. Hidden deficiency: On the structure of Slovenian clitic, strong, and prepositional pronouns

• Aida Talić (PhD 2017, now at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The shape and syntactic place of long-form adjectival inflection in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

• Natalia Rakhlin (PhD 2007, now at Wayne State University) and Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University). The case of missing subjects in early grammars: Absolutive-like stage in language acquisition

• Hakyung Jung (Seoul National University) and Krzysztof Migdalski (postdoc 2008, University of Wrocław). Gradients of pronominal and verbal deficiency

Diane Lillo-Martin gave a talk on May 19th in the Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online series hosted by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin). A recording of the talk, titled “Sign Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory”, can be accessed on the Abralin website.

Magda Kaufmann will be giving an online talk in the LinG Colloquium Series at Göttingen University series today on May 20th, titled: “A semantic-pragmatic account of generalized subject obviation”

The 29 Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics is taking place virtually from May 8th-10th, hosted by the University of Washington. A number of UConn linguists are going to be presenting their work at the conference:

• Franc Lanko Marušič (University of Nova Gorica) and Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore). Gender agreement with exclusive disjunction in Slovenian

• Ivana Jovović. On discourse licensing of co-indexed readings of pronouns: Serbo-Croatian strong pronouns as topic-shift anaphors

• Sandra Stjepanović (PhD 1999, now at West Virginia University). Multiple Source Left Branch Extraction in Serbo-Croatian

• Pasha Koval. Case transmission as long-distance phi-concord

The 43rd annual GLOW conference is taking place virtually from April 8th-10th, hosted by the Humboldt University of Berlin. UConn linguists are also going to be presenting their work at the conference:

• Yuta Tatsumi. Pronominalization in Japanese: A licensing condition on pronominal elements (Poster presentation – conference project page available here)
• Dimitris Michelioudakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) & Nina Radkevich (PhD 2010, now at University of York). Expanding the CP/DP parallelism: case alignment in nominals (Talk at “Remarks: The Legacy” workshop – conference project page available here)

The 42nd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) is taking place from March 4-6th in Hamburg, where two talks will be given by UConn linguists:

• Diane Lillo-Martin. Heritage Language Characteristics of Bimodal Bilinguals (substitute plenary talk)
• Helen Koulidobrova (PhD 2012, now at Central Connecticut State University) and Nedelina Ivanova Stoyanova. Bimodal bilinguals behave almost like unimodal bilinguals: Phonology of Icelandic Sign Language (talk in workshop on Linguistic diversity and linguistic modalities: New perspectives on bimodal (sign language/oral language) bilingualism)