UMass at NELS 47

The 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47) will be hosted here, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, next week from 14–16 October 2016. The program is available online.

Presentations by current/recent graduate students and faculty:

  • Alumni Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Andrew Weir are presenting the paper “Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions”
  • Gaja Jarosz is giving an invited talk “Refining UG: Connecting Phonological Theory and Learning”
  • Alumnus Stefan Keine is presenting the paper “Weak crossover obviation and Principle C amnesty have distinct sources”
  • Alumnus Stefan Keine is presenting the poster “Hierarchy effects in copular constructions: The PCC corner of German” with Jessica Coon and Michael Wagner
  • Petr Kusliy is presenting the poster “On an incompatibility between tenses and temporal adverbs”
  • Kevin Mullin is presenting the paper “Phonotactically-mediated Spectral Contrast and a Parallel Perception Grammar”
  • Shayne Sloggett and Brian Dillon are presenting the paper “When errors aren’t: How comprehenders selectively violate Binding Theory”
  • Alumni Brian Smith and Claire Moore-Cantwell are presenting the paper “Emergent idiosyncracy in English comparatives”
  • Alumnus Andrew Weir is presenting the poster “Ellipsis in ‘DP be CP’ constructions and the syntax of embedded fragments”
  • Current visitor Yu’an Yang is presenting the poster “Exhaustivity in Mandarin: Evidence from L1 acquisition” with Ying Liu

Presentations by alumni and other people from the UMass world (thanks to Angelika for mentioning some that I missed):

  • Former syntax guru Klaus Abels is giving an invited talk “On the syntax of multiple sluicing”.
  • Alumnus Chris Davis is presenting the paper “Evidentiality, Maximize Presupposition, and Gricean Quality in Okinawan”
  • Alumna Amy Rose Deal is presenting the paper “Covert hyperraising to object”
  • Former visiting faculty Alex Drummond and alumna Junko Shimoyama are presenting the poster “Complex degrees and an unexpected comparative interpretation”
  • Former visiting faculty Alex Drummond is presenting the poster “Deconstructing Condition C Reconstruction” with David Adger, David Hall and Coppe van Urk
  • Former syntax guru Tim Hunter is presenting the paper “Distinguishing approaches to island insensitivity” with David Potter
  • Alumnus Wendell Kimper is presenting the poster “Alien Phonotactics: What can science fiction tell us about implicit knowledge”
  • Former syntax guru Eric Potsdam is presenting the paper “Linearization at PF: Evidence from Malagasy Extraposition” with Daniel Edmiston
  • Alumna Maribel Romero is presenting “Negative Polar Question Types in English” with Anja Arnhold, Bettina Braun and Filippo Domaneschi
  • Former visitor Uli Sauerland is presenting the paper “Covert Across-the-Board Movement Revisited” with Marie-Christine Meyer
  • Alumnus Bernhard Schwarz is presenting the paper “Epistemic Narrowing from Maximize Presupposition” with Vincent Rouillard
  • Alumnus Florian Schwarz is presenting the paper “Priming local accommodation of hard triggers in disjunction” with Jeremy Zehr, Aron Hirsch, and Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin
  • Former visitors Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland are presenting the poster “Testing Plural Unmarkedness Across Languages” with Artemis Alexiadou

We look forward to seeing everyone here next week in the Pioneer Valley!