09 March 2014

UMass at WCCFL

The 32nd annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics meets this weekend at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. UMass is in force:

Alumna Gillian Gallagher (NYU) has a paper “The effect of locality on two phonotactic restrictions in Cochabamba Quechua"

Jeremy Pasquereau has an alternate paper “Phonological degrees of labiality: evidence from Karata"

Vincent Homer has a poster, with Carlo Geraci (CNRS) “Decomposing Negative Modals into their Syntactic Atoms."

Jason Overfelt has a poster The Subclausal Locality of Extraposition from NP."

Rajesh Bhatt and Stefan Keine have a talk “Verb Clusters and the Semantics of Head Movement."

Vincent Homer also has a paper “Anatomy of `ne que’."