UMN Linguistics at 2019 LSA
UMN Linguistics will be well-represented at the 2019 meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Congratulations to our faculty, students, and alumni who have had their research accepted for presentation!
- Jon Coltz, Jason Overfelt, and Brian Reese (UMN): Obligatory particles trigger presuppositions in Hurford Conditionals
- Dustin Chacón (UMN): Variation in Islands and Learnability: Three Test Cases in Spanish
- Jason Overfelt (UMN): 'Vehicle Stability' in antecedent-contained deletions
- Thuy Bui (UMass Amherst; with Rodica Ivan): Vietnamese anaphora: An argument for Binding Theory competition-based accounts
- Colin Davis (MIT): English possessor extraction
- Colin Davis (MIT; with Tatiana Bondarenko): Parasitic gaps diagnose concealed pied-piping in Russian
- Colin Davis (MIT; with Kenyon Branan): Agreement and Unlocking at the Edge
- Chris Hammerly (UMass Amherst): A verb-raising analysis of the Ojibwe VOS/VSO alternation
- Carolyn Spadine (MIT; with Gunnar Lund): Complementizers in matrix contexts: Reporting attitudes with attitude verbs
Congratulations also to our friends in other departments and at other institutions!
- Mai Al-Khatib (UMN Cognitive Science) and Randy Fletcher (UMN Psychology): Autonomic arousal in a foreign language in the context of decision making
- Morgan Rood (Carleton College): Evidence for a diminutive infix in Mehri
More information on the 2019 meeting of the LSA can be found here.
