NELS 50: alumni extravaganza!

This year's meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) - the 50th so far - took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from October 25 through 27. Not only were our alumni all over the program, a bunch of them even banded together to get a photograph of people with U of T connections!

• Julie Goncharov (Ph.D. 2015, now at the University of Tromsø) and Lavi Wolf (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): "The role of time in double NPI constructions with epistemic accessibility relations."
• Will Oxford (Ph.D. 2014, now at the University of Manitoba): "It’s all in the probe: Variation in inverse marking and its implications for probe structure."
• Will Oxford (Ph.D. 2014, now at the University of Manitoba) also presented a poster with Yadong Xu (University of Manitoba): "One probe to Agree with them all: Kickapoo portmanteau agreement is syntactic."
• Fulang Cater Chen (MA 2017, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Split partitivity in Mandarin: A diagnostic for argument-gap dependencies."
• Shay Hucklebridge (MA 2016, now at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Quantified nouns in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıı̀ relative clauses."
• Michelle Yuan (MA 2013, now at the University of California, San Diego): "Deriving variation in ergativity across Eskimo-Aleut."
• Nicholas Rolle (MA 2010, now at Princeton University) was part of a talk with Emily Clem (University of California, San Diego) and Virginia Dawson (University of California, Berkeley): "Post-syntactic altruism."
• Rachel Walker (MA 1993, now at the University of Southern California): "Gradient feature activity in Korean place assimilation."
• Maayan Abenina-Adar (BA 2012, now at the University of California, Los Angeles): "Ever free-relative clauses and Maximize Presupposition."
• Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (former postdoc, now at Queen's University) presented a poster: "Reduplication without segments: Verb doubling as a prosodic repair."

U of T alumni! Front: Bronwyn, Michelle, and Fulang. Back: Will, Maayan, Shay, Neil Banerjee (BA 2016, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (who has an MA from the U of T Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Photo courtesy of Bronwyn.