The 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 16) was held on July 15-19 in Prague, Czechia, and UConn Linguistics was represented at the conference with a talk by:

• Yixuan Yan. How do children distribute? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

… and posters by:

• Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Acquisition of epistemic modals in Mandarin Chinese
• Yixuan Yan. Does impoverished morphology make conditionals late? Counter-evidence from Mandarin

The 33rd annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33) was hosted by Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) on May 16th-19th. UConn linguistics was well represented with presentations by:

• Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell University). Negation and finiteness in BCMS
• Miloje Despić and Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at Reed College). On adjunction, complementation and the problem of present perfectives in BCMS
• Adrian Stegovec. Prosodic deficiency and person deficiency: What we can learn from cross-linguistic variation in Slavic clitic and weak pronouns (invited presentation, roundtable on “Trends and synergies in the research on Slavic clitics”)
• Krzysztof Migdalski (post-doc 2006-2008, now at University of Wrocław) and Hakyung Jung. Categorial mismatches of pronouns — a diachronic perspective
• Katarina Gomboc Čeh and Arthur Stepanov (PhD 2001, now at University of Nova Gorica). Processing syntactic dependencies in Slovenian heritage speakers
• Krzysztof Migdalski. UG determinism and phi-feature interpretability in the direction of language change (poster)

UConn linguists at FASL (left-to-right: Miloje, Krzysztof, Adrian, Neda):

The 45th International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC 2024) was virtually organized by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on 7-9 May 2024. UConn linguistics was represented with a talk by:

• Shengyun Gu, Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University), and Elaine Gale. ASL phonology develops early for deaf children in non-native signing home environment

The 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) took place on May 2-4, hosted by The Department of Linguistics at McGill University, and UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:

• Qiushi Chen. The cylic nature of grammatical tone in Chichewa
• Tarcisio Diss. An animacy restriction in Chichewa hyperraising

Photo of Tarcisio and Qiushi at the conference:

The 60th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) is taking place at the University of Chicago on April 26th-28th, and UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

… and poster presentations by:

The 42nd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), hosted by UC Berkeley, took place on April 12-14, 2024. UConn was well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Vicki Carstens. The (un)interpretability of grammatical gender: asymmetries of AGR with conjoined subjects as a formal diagnostic
• Yusuke Yagi. Some Reconstruction Effects are by Default Semantic
• Qiushi Chen. How to realize your lower copy: Evidence from Chichewa object dislocation
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Does merely hearing and boost implicatures with disjunction or is relevance also needed?

… and posters by:

• Tarcisio Dias. Contextual markedness in Brazilian Portuguese size morphology
• Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Across-the-board constructions in Japanese
• Yosuke Sato & Hiromune Oda (PhD 2021, now at University of Tokyo). Variation in Particle Stranding Ellipsis in the Two-Grammar Model for Japanese.
• Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) & Beth Chan. Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions.
• Pasha Koval (PhD 2023, now at NYU Abu Dhabi) & Jon Sprouse. Relative Clause Extraposition in English is created by rightward syntactic movement.
• Zixi Liu. How high can you get: Nominative object construction in Japanese

Pictured: Most of the UConn linguistics contingent at WCCFL

The 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-36) took place on March 22-24, hosted by Pomona College. UConn Linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:

• Qiushi Chen. Be Careful Where You Reanalyze Your Syntax: On N(P)-fronting in Two Southwestern Mandarin Varieties
• Shangyan Pan. Gei as Functional Elements: How Many Are There?
• Jarry Chia-Wei Chuang & Danny Yi-Xiang Liao. Motivation of Checked Tone Merger in TSM: Syllable Structure and Tonal Pattern
• Jarry Chia-Wei Chuang & Lily Li-Ping Chen. Unifying OR-distinction & Moraic Model: The Status of Prenuclear Glide
• Pei-Jung Kuo (PhD 2009, now at National Chiayi University). A Zonal Inclusion Analysis for the Empathic Marker gei in the ba Construction