The UMass Linguistics Department was well represented at both this year’s NELS, held at Yale University on October 17-18, 2024.

Presentations from the current members of the department included:

A talk by Eva Neu “Inflectional morphology in the Turkish verbal domain: Allomorphy, hybridity and change” (handout), and another talk by Beccy Lewis “An implicational hierarchy on the exponence of heterogeneous plurals” (handout).

Moreover, UMass linguists also presented three posters.

Satoru Ozaki: Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis

Mariam Asatryan, Faruk Akkuş and Rajesh Bhatt: Hyperagreement in Alashkert Armenian (poster)

Faruk Akkuş: Locating code-switching in the grammar: Role of postsyntax and morphological wordhood (handout)

Presentations by former members of our department included a talk by Amy Rose Deal (with Zachary O’Hagan) titled “Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity“, and a poster by Yuyang Liu titled “Mandarin Chinese ma: Q morpheme, SA intensifier, or PQP?”.