WCCFL 35 (2017)

The 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics was recently held at the University of Calgary (program here). Three of the four invited speakers have UofT connections:

Neil Banerjee (UofT BA, now at MIT): Trouble with attitudes and the future

Keir Moulton (UofT BA and MA, now at SFU): A Defence of (C-)Command

Elan Dresher (faculty): Contrastive Hierarchy Theory and the Nature of Features

Also from our department, a talk and a poster:

Rebecca Tollan (Ph.D.) & Will Oxford (Ph.D. 2014, now at the University of Manitoba): Voice-less unergatives: Evidence from Algonquian

Julie Goncharov (Ph.D. 2016, now at Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Monica Irimia (Ph.D 2011, now at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Indexical worlds and modal comparatives

Elan Dresher giving his talk (photo by Darin Flynn, University of Calgary: link)

The Canadian Language Museum (photo by Dennis Storoshenko, University of Calgary)