Conferences

Meaghan Fowlie recently presented at the 29th Northwest Linguistics Conference held last weekend at University of British Columbia. Her talk was entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction”.

Two UCLA linguists will be presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (April 18-20). Dustin Bowers: Phonological Restructuring in Odawa Thomas Graf: The Syntactic Algebra of Adjuncts

Laura McPherson and Sadie Martin will be giving talks at the upcoming Georgetown University Round Table / 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Laura’s talk is entitled: “Tonal competition in the Dogon DP: a constraint-based approach to conflict resolution” Sadie’s talk is entitled: “The “Instrumental” Construction in Twi”

Jos Tellings will be presenting at BLS 39 at Berkeley this coming weekend. His talk is entitled: “Clitics and voicing in Dutch.” His abstract is as follows: Abstract: In Dutch, the process of clitic attachment to verbal stems interacts with voicing processes such as Final Devoicing and voice assimilation. In addition free variation is attested…

Meaghan Fowlie was recently in the Netherlands where she presented a poster entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction” at the 23rd meeting of Computational Linguistics In the Netherlands (CLIN 23) at the University of Twente.