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UMass @ WCCFL 35

The 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics is happening next weekend (28-30 April) at the University of Calgary. UMass will be well represented:

  • Hsin-Lun Huang is presenting the talk “Revisiting Pseudo-Incorporation: Post-verbal non-referential bare NPs in Mandarin”.
  • Jon Ander Mendia is presenting the poster “Epistemic Number”.
  • Troy Messick is presenting the poster “¾ agreement patterns beyond hybrid nouns”.
  • Rafael Nonato (in Spanish and Portuguese Studies) is presenting the talk “Skewed AGREE: accounting for a closest-conjunct effect with semantic implications”.
  • Yangsook Park is presenting the poster “Overt subjects in obligatory control constructions in Korean”.
  • Ethan Poole is presenting the talk “Movement of properties and properties of movement”.
  • Brandon Prickett is presenting the talk “Post nasal devoicing as opacity: A problem for natural constraints”.

Alumni Elan Dresher and Keir Moulton are invited speakers! Other alumni and people from the UMass world:

  • Alumnus Luis Alonso-Ovalle is presenting the talk “Anchored implicatives: Tagalog ability/involuntary action” with Henrison Hsieh.
  • Recent visitor Anna Marlijn Meijer is presenting the talk “The semantics and pragmatics of embedded polar replies with English so”.

GLOW 40 program out

The program for Generative Linguistics in the Old World 40, hosted by Leiden University, is out now. The following UMass people are presenting at the main colloquium and the accompanying workshop “Compositionality at the Interfaces”:

  • Daniel Altshuler is presenting the poster “A compositional semantics of provisional anaphors and cataphors at the semantics/pragmatics interface” at the workshop (with Dag Haug).
  • David Erschler is presenting the poster “Predicting embedded gapping” at the main colloquium.
  • Hsin-Lun Huang is presenting the paper “Post-verbal non-referential NPs in Mandarin: A case of Pseudo-Incorporation” at the workshop.
  • Deniz Özy?ld?z is presenting the poster “Knowledge reports without true belief” at the workshop.
  • Ethan Poole is presenting the paper “Movement of properties and properties of movement” at the main colloquium.

Alumna Maribel Romero is also the invited speaker at the workshop.

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!