The 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44) took place in Mexico City on May 6–8, 2026, hosted by UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). The following current and former members of the department presented:
- Jesse Harris (faculty): “Can I get a witness? A multidimensional account of else in English” [keynote]
- Stefan Keine (faculty), w/ Jessica Coon, Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez, and Michael Wagner: “Reconsidering animacy hierarchy effects in Mayan: Experimental evidence from Ch’ol”
- Colin Brown (PhD alum): “Pied-piping with inversion involves inversion”
- Noah Elkins (PhD alum): “When absolutive agreement fails: insights from Mam”
- Blake Lehman (PhD alum): “Tone sandhi as allomorphy with floating tones in Avatime”