The 51th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51) is being held virtually from 6th-8th November 2020, hosted by the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). UConn linguistics will be represented by a talk by:

• Shuyan Wang. Covert exhaustifier or not? Child language can help

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.

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.