The 47th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society meets April 7-9 at the University of Chicago. Angelika Kratzer is an invited speaker for the main session. Her talk is on "Hunting down the material conditional." Norvin Richards, former visiting professor to the UMass linguistics department is another invited speaker.
The program includes other members of the UMass linguistics community, including:
Noah Contant, who is presenting "Re-diagnosing appositivity: Evidence for prenominal appositives from Mandarin"
Terue Nakato-Miyashita, who presents "The economy of encoding and anaphoric dependency with relational nouns: Evidence from child grammar"
Anne Pycha and John Kingston who present "Duration variation triggered by consonant voicing is not gestural: Evidence from production"
Gillian Gallagher (UMass alumnae), who presents "Auditory features: The case from laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions"
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