Talks

UConn Linguistics at GLOW

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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

     

    UConn Linguistics at CLS

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    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

        UConn Linguists at ACAL

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        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

            UConn Linguists at PLC

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            The 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 18-20, 2022 and UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with presentations by:

            • Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). “Parts” of fractions: A cross-linguistic study (POSTER)
            • Tarcisio Dias. Local wh-subjects under Brazilian Portuguese nunca ellipsis (POSTER)
            • Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Against low negation in Japanese questions
            • Beccy Lewis. There are two derivations for associative plural (APL) constructions
            • Hiroaki Saito (Mie University/UConn). On the apparent complementizer in Japanese
            • Yusuke Yagi & Xuetong Yuan. Stronger Additivity Derives Concessivity
            • Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies). The Syntax and Semantics of SAY in the Quotative Complement in Japanese

                UConn Linguists at DGfS

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                The 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) was held online on February 23rd-25th, hosted by the University of Tübingen. UConn linguists gave talks at two of the DGfS thematic workshops:

                Vicki Carstens gave an invited talk at the workshop on Long Distance Dependencies and the structure of embedded clauses in African Languages, titled: Addressee Agreement in Bantu and Speech Act Projections

                Adrian Stegovec gave a talk at the workshop on Optionality and non-optionality of syntactic movement, titled: The third way: Optional object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution.

                 

                UConn Linguists at TaLK

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                The Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference is taking place March 2nd-4th at Keio University and virtually. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with talks by:

                • Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Negative polarity and the silent MUCH in degree constructions (in person+online)
                • Muyi Yang. Referentiality and plurality in conditionals (online)
                • Xuetong Yuan and Yusuke Yagi. Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity (online)

                UConn Linguists at Jabberwocky Words In Linguistics

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                The Jabberwocky Words In Linguistics workshop took place online on February 11th-12th hosted by UMass, Amherst. UConn was represented by the following invited talks:

                • Emma Nguyen (PhD 2021, now at University of California, Irvine). Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children
                • Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, Western Sydney University). Using nonce words to investigate the morphology of comparison
                • Letitia Naigles (UConn Department of Psychological Sciences). What Nonsense? Not at all! Nonsense Word Studies Reveal both Strengths and Challenges in the Linguistic Representations of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

                  Tu+7 at UConn

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                  We are pleased to announce that UConn Linguistics will be hosting the Seventh Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, otherwise known as TU+7, on February 18th-19th!

                  The program, abstracts, and information on registration can be found at: https://sites.google.com/uconn.edu/tu7

                  Please join us this year by registering by February 16th in order to receive updates and Zoom links for some fantastic talks!