Adrian Stegovec gave a talk at Yale as part of their Linguistics Colloquium series on March 28th, 2022. His talk was titled “Location is everything: A typological gap in person restrictions and its support for a positional analysis”. More information on the talk can be found here.
Talks
UConn Linguists at PLC
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
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
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
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
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!
Magdalena Kaufmann | AIL Invited Talk
The 2nd annual workshop on Agency and Intentions in Language took place virtually on January 12-14, 2022, organized by Harvey Mudd College. Magdalena Kaufmann gave an invited talk at the workshop, titled: “Tracking Presumed Control”
UConn Linguists at the LSA Annual Meeting
The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America is taking place January 6th-9th in Washington, DC and virtually. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with talks by:
- Si Kai Lee. Movement is Exhausting: Optional wh-fronting in Singlish is not free (in-person)
- Muyi Yang. The closeness constraint on focus association and the syntax of Q-particles (hybrid)
… and poster presentations by:
- Yusuke Yagi. Strawson Semantic Value: An explanation for the definite reading in ellipsis (in-person)
- Pasha Koval and Jon Sprouse. Relative Clause Extraposition in Russian is created by syntactic movement (in-person)
- Ari Goertzel. The Properties of the -o clitic in Mandinka (online)
- Shengyun Gu. Combined methods are informative: weak hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language (online)
- Ivana Jovović. On Discourse Licensing of Coindexed Pronouns in Slavic (online)
- Hiroaki Saito. Losing a subject, keeping an indirect object
- Nick Huang (postdoc 2019-2021, now at the National University of Singapore) and Yu’an Yang. How do learners know attitude verbs select what in wh-in situ languages? (online)
- Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Meghan Lim. Extraction from definite, indefinite, and superlative NPs: An experimental approach
Bošković | Plenary talk at BeLiDa
Željko Bošković gave a plenary talk, titled Formalism and Functionalism, at the Belgrade Linguistic Days (BeLiDa), which took place December 3-4 and celebrated 30 years of the Department of General Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
UConn Linguistics at LENLS
The Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18) annual workshop took place online on November 13-15, 2021 as one of the workshops of the JSAI International Symposia on AI sponsored by the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:
- Muyi Yang. Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals
- Shun Ihara and Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). The Duality of Negative Attitudes in Japanese Conditionals