UCLA @ NELS 55

The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) took place Oct. 17-18, 2024, hosted by Yale University. The program features several presentations by UCLA linguists:

• Vicki Carstens (alum): “The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu” (invited talk)
• Klaus Baki, Anthony D. Yates and Sam Zukoff: “A phonology–morphosyntax interface explanation of the “nasal infix” in (Proto-)Indo-European”
• Isabelle Charnavel (alum) and Dominique Sportiche (with Tom Meadows): “Meaningful Agreement Features: Evidence from indexical binding”
• Michelle Yuan (with Andrew Hedding): “Distinct pathways to possessor A’-extraction in Mesoamerican languages”
• Travis Major (alum) (with Gary Thoms and Gulnar Eziz): “Raised heads and subjects in Turkic genitive subject relatives”