CamCoS 5

Cambridge Comparative Syntax 5 took place from May 5 to 7 at Cambridge University.

Diane Massam (faculty) was one of the invited speakers; she presented a talk entitled "(Un)ergativity and the Split DP hypothesis."

Monica Irimia (Ph.D. 2011, now at the University of York) and colleague Sonia Cyrino (University of Campinas) presented "Syntactic positions for DOM: The case of Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian."

Diane sends along these photos:

Monica and Diane representing our department in Cambridge!

Diane talking about roll-up movement with Guglielmo Cinque at St. John's College, Cambridge.