The 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) was held on October 17-19th, 2025, at NYU. The following UCLA linguists presented:
- Boram Kim (current PhD student): “Copulas as non-verbal aspect”
- Colin Brown (PhD alum): “What to do about what to do? Root wh infinitives as deliberative non-canonical questions” (with Starr Sandoval)
- János Egressy (current PhD student): “Size-sensitive Sequence of Tense in Hungarian”
- Michelle Yuan (faculty): “Clitic coalescence in San Juan Piñas Mixtec at the syntax-phonology interface” (with Gabriela Caballero and Claudia Juárez Chávez)
- Nikos Angelopoulos (PhD alum): “Rethinking Greenberg’s Universal 5 and the (im)possibility of certain head orders” (with Dimitris Michelioudakis, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, and Elena Anagnostopoulou)