UMass was well represented at the 50th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) at MIT, Oct 25-27. Current students, faculty, and alumni gave presentations:

• Stefan Keine (PhD 2016) gave a keynote presentation on “Feature gluttony in the syntax of hierarchy effects”
• Christopher Hammerly presented “Obviative agreement, word order, and the ?/? divide”
• Jérémy Pasquereau (PhD 2018), Brian Dillon & Lyn Frazier presented “Quantification At a Distance and grammatical illusions”
• Ethan Poole (PhD 2017) presented “Interpreting movement across phase boundaries”
• Amy Rose Deal (PhD 2010) presented “Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC”
• Shay Hucklebridge (current student) presented “Quantified nouns in Tlicho Yatil relative clauses”
• Bernhard Schwarz (PhD 2000) presented “Which questions, uniqueness, and answer hood: evidence from disjunction” with Michaela Socolof and Aron Hirsch.