Talks

UConn Linguistics at SALT

The 33nd conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) will take place on May 12-14th at Yale University. UConn will be represented at the conference with presentations by:

  • Ka-Fai Yip, Ushasi Banerjee and Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Are there “weak definites” in bare classifier languages?
  • Yusuke Yagi. Telescope of Incremental Quantification (poster)
  • Vicki Carstens. Extraction evidence on the syntax of Xhosa nominal expressions (workshop on (In)definiteness & Genericity across Languages)

    UConn Linguists at WCCFL

    The 41th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), hosted by UC Santa Cruz, is taking place on May 5-7, 2023. UConn will be well represented at the conference with talks by:

    • Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at University of Toronto). Gitksan complements are of variable sizes
    • Robin Jenkins. Timing the escape: Verbal identity in Uyghur verb-stranding ellipsis
    • Shengyun Gu. Weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language: Comparing signers and non-signers
    • Irene Amato and Adrian Stegovec. Disjunction under single referent: Voiding the ban on clitic coordination
    • Beccy Lewis. “Tell us about it!”: A deficient indexical in British English

    … and posters by:

    • Zixi Liu. Locality of locative inversion
    • Penelope Daniel. Unifying differential argument marking through interpretable features

      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)

        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

        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