The 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42) is happening this week, hosted by UC Berkeley. The program features several presentations by UCLA linguists:
- Huilei Wang: Exceptional scope out of finite complement clauses
- János Egressy: Williams Cycle effects in Hungarian
- Joe Class: Case discrimination is relativized to individual probes
- Alum Canaan Breiss: Testing the Base-specificity prediction of the Voting Bases model
- Alum Jennifer Kuo: Types of statistical learning in the acquisition of alternations
- Alum Noah Elkins (with Justin Royer and Tessa Scott): Super-extended ergativity in Mam
- Alum Richard Stockwell: Recoverability and identity are dissociable in double ellipsis
- Alum Richard Stockwell and Dominique Sportiche (with Aya Meltzer-Asscher): Condition C, pronoun strength, and the raising analysis of relative clauses
- Alum Vicki Carstens: The (un)interpretability of grammatical gender