Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser University, 2009 UMass PhD) gave a keynote address at WCCFL 35 (West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics) this weekend at the University of Calgary. Keir presented joint work with his colleague Chung-hye Han and the SFU Experimental Syntax Lab in a talk entitled “A Defence of C-Command.” Here are the slides for his lecture.

As reported earlier, also on the program were Troy Messick, current UMass graduate students Brandon Pricket, Ethan Poole, Jon Ander Mendia, Yangsook Park, and Hsin-Lun Huang, last semester’s visitor Marlijn Meijer, alums Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University, 2006 UMass PhD) and Elan Dresher (University of Toronto, 1978 UMass PhD), and Rafael Nonato from Spanish and Portuguese Studies.