Adrian Stegovec will give talk at Cornell as part of their Linguistics Colloquium series on April 27th, 2023. His talk will be titled “A typological gap in person restrictions and the un-parameterization of Agree”. More information on the talk can be found here.
Talks
UConn Linguistics at GLOW
The 46th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium will take place at the University of Vienna and the University of Graz on April 11-15th, 2023. UConn linguistics will be represented with talks and posters by:
- Irene Amato and Adrian Stegovec. One referent, one contrasting feature: voiding the ban on clitic coordination (workshop on Mismatched pronouns)
- Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Nick Huang (post-doc 2019-2021, now at National University of Singapore). The definiteness effect in wh-fronting and wh-in situ languages
- Penelope Daniel. A unified analysis of differential argument marking (poster)
Yadav at FASAL
The 13th conference on (Formal) Approaches to South Asian languages (fASAL 13) is being held at the University of Michigan from March 31st-April 2 and UConn linguistics will be represented with a talk by:
- Pravaal Yadav. Step-UP Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
Kaufmanns | Invited Talks METU Workshop
Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann each gave an invited talk at the METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning, March 22-23, in Gökova-Akyaka, Muğla, Turkey.
UConn Linguists at PLC
The 47th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 18-19 and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with presentations by:
- Robin Jenkins. Variable verb-stranding ellipsis in Uyghur
- Beccy Lewis. A deficient indexical in British English: An analysis of singular ‘us’
UConn Linguistics at JK
The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, organized by Simon Fraser University, will take place on March 11-13, 2023. UConn will be well represented at the conference
… with talks by:
- Yuya Noguchi. On the directive interpretation of non-past sentences in Japanese
- Qiushi Chen. Deriving Mizenkei in Old Japanese Verbal Morphology
- Eri Tanaka, Masako Maeda, and Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University). On negative island effects and exhaustification with adjunct nani-o in Japanese
… and posters by:
- Yusuke Yagi and Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai U). Crossover Effects with Set indices: Evidence from Japanese Scrambling
- Masako Maeda and Yoichi Miyamoto. Scope Properties of Parasitic Gaps in Adjunct Control in Japanese
- Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Kanazawa Gakuin U, Kobe City U of Foreign Studies) and Takayuki Akimoto. Accusative Case without Agree
- Toshiko Oda (PhD 2008, now at Tokyo Keizai U) and Alexander Wimmer. Japanese if-adversatives
UConn linguistics at Tu+
The 8th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+8) took place on March 4–5, 2023, hosted by Harvard University. UConn linguistics was represented by:
- Robin Jenkins. Variations in verbal identity in Uyghur and Uzbek verb-stranding ellipsis
ECO5 at UConn
ECO-5 is an annual gathering of linguistics graduate students from five East Coast universities (UMass, MIT, Harvard, UConn, and UMD), and this year it is hosted by UConn Linguistics, taking place on February 25th. UConn Linguistics will also be represented at ECO-5 by:
- Beccy Lewis. A deficient indexical in British English
- Thanos Iliadis. The distribution of Modern Greek idhios
Stefan Kaufmann | Talk at UCHI
Stefan Kaufmann presented his work on “Talking about time and possibility” as a fellow’s talk at the UConn Humanities Institute on February 1, 2023.
UConn Linguists at NELS
- Linghui Eva Gan. Perspective Blend and Indexical Shift in Hong Kong Sign Language
- Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell) & Michael David Hamilton. Consequences of Labeling for Morphophonology: v*P Labeling, Feature Interaction, & Direct-Inverse Systems
- Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University) & Philipp Weisser. Matching locality domains across modules: A case study from Sinhala
- Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (PhD 2017, now University of Iceland) & Cherlon Ussery. I’ll Give You that Interpretation If You Give Me the Right Configuration: Accounting for the Gradience of Inverse Scope in Insular Scandinavian
- Hiromune Oda (PhD 2021, now at University of Tokyo). Definite articles need not project DP: A more fine-grained NP/DP-language distinction
- Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Anaphoric interpretations of the nominal use of Japanese classifier phrases
… and poster presentations by…
- Robin Jenkins. Accusative case in Turkish & Uyghur and the articulation of the verbal field
- Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), William Snyder, and Stella Christie. Investigating children’s understanding of Mandarin you ‘again’ with goal-PPs
- Paula Fenger. Words (a)cross domains: lessons from Japanese verbs