The annual North East Linguistics Society meeting takes place October 19-21 at the City University of New York. UMass will be well represented:
Papers:
Andrew Weir (graduate student) "Why-stripping targets Voice Phrase"
Seth Cable (faculty) "Distance distributivity and pluractionality in Tlingit (and beyond)"
Elliott Moreton (alumnus) with Katya Pertsova "Pastry phonotactics" (delicious!)
Michael Becker and Maria Gouskova (alumni) "Source-oriented generalizations as grammar inference in yer deletion"
Posters:
Maria Biezma (alumna) (with Daniel Siddiqi and Andrew Carnie) "Counterfactuality in non-standard subjunctive conditionals"