Mayfest 2023: Howard’s Beginning

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This year’s UMD Linguistics Department’s annual ‘Mayfest’ workshop is dedicated to Howard Lasnik on the occasion of his retirement. The program includes many of his UConn students and colleagues giving presentations honoring Howard’s long and illustrious career:

  • Željko Bošković. On subject positions, the EPP, and contextuality of syntax
  • Keiko Murasugi. Parameterization in Labeling: Evidence from Language Acquisition
  • Adolfo Ausín. The (lack of) structure of Phrasal Compounds
  • Mamoru Saito. In defense of covert wh-movement (after 40 years)
Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
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UConn Linguists at WCCFL

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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

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    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)