The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) is this weekend, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists:
- Zhuo Chen: Mandarin conditionals: the external syntax, order preservation and cyclic linearization
- Tim Hunter (with Robert Frank): Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms
- Travis Major and Alum Richard Stockwell: “Say”-ing without a Voice
- Alum Laura Kalin (with Nicholas Rolle): Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion vs. position
- Alum Richard Stockwell and Dominique Sportiche (with Aya Meltzer-Asscher): There is reconstruction for Condition C in English questions