A strikingly large group of past and present UMass linguists presented talks and posters at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics held at UCLA April 20-22, 2018:  http://linguistics.ucla.edu/conference/wccfl36/.

TALKS

Jyoti Iyer
“Bare singulars can object shift or pseudo-incorporate but not both”

Leland Kusmer
“Extraction from coordination in Khoekhoegowab”

Deniz Ozyildiz (with Travis Mjor and Emar Maier)
“Communicative reception reports as hearsay: Evidence from indexical shift in Turkish”

Vincent Homer (plenary speaker)
“That’s all”

Jon Ander Mendia, Ethan Poole and Brian Dillon
“Spurious NPI licensing is covert licensing”

Bernhard Schwarz (with Methieu Paille)
“Knowing whether and ignorance inferences”

POSTERS

Rodica Ivan and Brian Dillon
“When NPI Illusions fail: the case of strict NPIs and neg-words in Romanian”

Rodica Ivan
“No interpreted features? No Principle B!”

Peter Alrenga
“A single ‘single’: From emphasis to exclusivity”

Rong Yin and Jeremy Hartman
“Perspectives under Ellipsis”

Thuy Bui
“Aspectual Asymmetry: The Vietnamese (Im)Perfectivity”

Ekaterina Vostrikova
“Deriving the exceptive-additive ambiguity”

Alexander Göbel
Additives in ‘but’-clauses, ‘also’ as the Negation of EXH

Satoshi Tomioka
“Contrastive and Embedded Implicature”

Andrew McKenzie
“The role of semantics in licensing English synthetic compounds”

Andrew Lamont
“Precedence is pathological: The problem of alphabetical sorting”