Magdalena Kaufmann gave two presentations entitled “Reaching the remote and the impossible” at the Semantics Workshop at UMass on October 18 and at the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop on October 28.
Talks
UConn Linguists at NELS
The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society took place at Yale University, October 17-18. UConn Linguistics was well represented at the conference with an invited talk by:
- Vicki Carstens. The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu
… talks by:
- Beccy Lewis (PhD 2024, now at UMass, Amherst). An implicational hierarchy on the exponence of heterogeneous plurals
- Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University), Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser. Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification
… and poster presentations by:
- Jon Gajewski. On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora
- Qiushi Chen. N-to-D movement, scrambling, and DP-internal constituent order in Chichewa
Yixuan (Pepper) Yan | Invited talk at ILLC
Yixuan (Pepper) Yan presented joint work with Yitong Luo at the N∅thing is Logical (∅NihiL) seminar organized by the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. The talk, given on October 1st 2024, was titled“Do children know that PolQs are not AltQs? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese”.
UConn Linguistics at SinFonIJA
The 17th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 17), is being held on 26-28 September 2024 at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference by the following talks:
- Praval Yadaav & Giulio Muramatsu. Reduplication dislikes Specificity: Restrictions in Long-Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
- Elena Guerzoni, Furkan Dikmen & Penka Stateva (PhD 2002, now at University of Nova Gorica). A novel account of Turkish singular and plural marking
… and with an invited talk by:
- Luisa Martí (PhD 2003, now at Queen Mary University of London). Impossible determiners
UConn Linguistics at SuB
Sinn und Bedeutung 29, hosted by Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale (CUMO) in Noto, Italy, took place September 17-19, 2024. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference, with the following poster presentations:
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Seungho Nam & Aarón Sánchez. Expressive contexts and descriptive subjects of Spanish imperatives
- Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu & Pravaal Yadav. PPI Disjunction and Epistemic Lists
Photo: Seungho and Giulio at SuB 29
UConn Linguistics at GALA
The 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 16), was held September 12-14 at the NOVA University of Lisbon. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Yixuan Yan. A-not-A Questions in child Mandarin: Deletion or reduplication?
- Zixi Liu and Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Early mastery of the Japanese Case system: New evidence from relative clauses.
… and posters by:
- Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto) and Stella Christie. Children are sensitive to the presupposition of you ‘again’ in Mandarin: Evidence from two alternative methods.
- Ayaka Sugawara, Koji Sugisaki (PhD 2003, now at Kwansei Gakuin University), Eri Tanaka, Satoshi Tomioka and Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University). Japanese-speaking children’s association of “only” in ditransitive sentences.
Part of the UConn linguistics contingent at GALA:
UConn Linguistics at FEAST
The 2024 edition of the meeting of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) colloquium took place August 6-8 in Ann Arbor, MI. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with the following talks:
- Diane Lillo-Martin, Linghui Eva Gan, Julie Hochgesang, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University). Assessing the Development of ASL by Deaf Children: Longitudinal Spontaneous Production Data
- Shengyun Gu. Crossing the boundary, but with a limit: Non-dominant hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language
… and the following poster presentations:
- Natasha Thalluri and Kathryn Davidson (post-doc 2012-13, now at Harvard University). Towards a unified view of “co-sign gesture” depictions as demonstrations
- Karahan Şahin and Kadir Gökgöz (post-doc 2013-16, now at Bogazici University): SL-AFE: Pose Estimation-based Sign Language Analysis Framework
Photo of (from left to right): Linghui Eva Gan, Kazumi Matsuoka (PhD 1998, now at Keio University), and Diane Lillo-Martin at the FEAST:
UConn Linguistics at ESSLLI
The 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) was held on July 29-Aug 9 in Leuven, Belgium, and UConn Linguistics was represented in the Student Session with talks by:
- Jiayi Zhou (incoming cohort 2024-25). Two Classes of Intensifiers in Mandarin Chinese: From Subjectivity to Evidentiality
- Yixuan Yan. Time and Modality in Mandarin Counterfactual Reasoning
UConn Linguistics at IASCL
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
Magdalena & Stefan Kaufmann | University of Vienna Colloquium
Magdalena and Stefan Kaufmann gave a talk as part of the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Vienna on July 1st. Their talk was titled “Ways of being iffy”.