The 31st annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 31) hosted by McMaster University in a hybrid mode is taking place on June 24-26. UConn linguistics will be well represented with presentations by:

• Željko Bosković. Wh & wh Coordinations
• Sandra Stjepanović (PhD 1999, now at West Virginia University). Left Branch Extraction and Agreement with Hybrid Nouns (POSTER)
• Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell University). Nominal Ellipsis of Hybrid Nouns in Serbian
• Beccy Lewis. Associative plurals in Slavic languages
• Danil Khristov, Artur Stepanov (PhD 2001, now at University of Nova Gorica), Julie Franck & Penka Stateva (PhD 2002, now at University of Nova Gorica). Feature Assignment Errors in the Bulgarian Quantified Noun Phrase (POSTER)

… as well as an invited talk by:

• Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at University of British Columbia). What are(n’t) we asking with a (negative) polar question in Serbian?

The 32nd conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) will take place on June 8-10 in Mexico City and will be co-hosted by El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). UConn will be represented at the conference with presentations by:

• Muyi Yang. Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds.
• Teruyuki Mizuno and Stefan Kaufmann. Past-as-Past in counterfactual desire reports: a view from Japanese.

The 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted by Stanford University, will take place virtually on May 13-15, 2022. UConn will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Beccy Lewis. British English do-ellipsis is phasal ellipsis
• Ari Goertzel. Pseudo noun incorporation in Mandinka
• Željko Bošković. Binding and agreement in distributed coordinations
• Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Meghan Lim. The definite DP island in wh-questions and relative clauses
• Maria Kouneli, Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University), and Jonathan Bobaljik. Syntactic limitations on phonological dominance

The event Romance Languages: Recent Contributions to Linguistic Theory will take place online on April 28-29 hosted by Harvard University, with the following talks by UConn linguists:

• Tarcísio Dias. Local wh-subjects under Brazilian Portuguese Quem nunca? Ellipsis
• Julio Villa-García (PhD 2012, now at University of Oviedo & University of Manchester) & Denis Ott. Bisententiality in Romance: the case of multiple-complementizer sentences
• Jairo Nunes (University of São Paulo & Adjunct Associate Professor at UConn). Defective Phases and the Grammar of Brazilian Portuguese (invited talk)

The 45th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium will take place at Queen Mary University of London on April 26-28, 2022 in a hybrid fashion. UConn linguistics will be well represented with talks and posters by:

• Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meika University). A cross linguistic survey of ‘parts’ of fractions (workshop on Typological generalizations and semantic theory)
• Yusuke Yagi and Xuetong Yuan. Additive prejacent and/or additive alternatives: a principle and a parameter in Mandarin and Japanese (poster/alternate, workshop on Typological generalizations and semantic theory)
• Takanobu Nakamura and Hiromune Oda (PhD 2022, now at The University of Tokyo) Maintaining Mandarin hen as a weak intensifier (poster, workshop on Typological generalizations and semantic theory)
• Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, not at Leipzig Univerity) and Philipp Weisser. Limits of umlaut in Sinhala
• Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell University). Number mismatch and ellipsis of hybrid nouns: A case for post-syntactic analysis of concord (poster)
• Xuetong Yuan. Establishing discourse relations: two contrastive markers in Mandarin (poster)
• Ksenia Bogomolets (PhD 2020, now at University of Auckland). Lexical Accent and the illusion of complexity

   

The 58th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) is taking place in-person on April 22-24, and UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Linghui Eva Gan. Question Answer Pairs in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Penelope Daniel. Deriving Interpretive Effects of Spanish DOM
• Xuetong Yuan. Establishing Discourse Relations: Two Contrastive Markers in Mandarin
• Tarcisio Dias. Hyper-Raising and the Voiding of Freezing Effects
• Nicolaus Schrum and Jon Sprouse. The Sustained Anterior Negativity as a Diagnostic for Movement in How-Come Questions

… and poster presentations by:

• Robin Jenkins. Covert Raising & Finite ECM in Turkish, Uyghur, & Japanese
• Si Kai Lee. On Syntactic Tenselessness in Singlish: Evidence from Eventivity
• Kazuya Kudo and Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Kanazawa Gakuin University & Kobe City University of Foreign Studies). On the Adjectivalizer -si in the Reduplicated & Deverbal Adjectives in Japanese
• Beccy Lewis. A New Analysis of Associative Plurals: Evidence from Slavic languages

The 53nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) will take place virtually on April 7-9, hosted by The Department of Linguistics at the University of California San Diego, and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with talks by:

• Vicki Carstens and Peter Muriungi. Addressee Agreement in Kiitharaka and Speech Act Projection Theory
• Penelope Daniel. Deriving SOVX word order in Mandinka
• Vicki Carstens. Preverbal subjects and labeling in Nguni