The annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America met January 3-6 in Boston this year, and UMass were well represented in the poster sessions. These included:
Andrew Weir, poster: "Article drop in headlines: failure of CP level Agree"
Anisa Schardl, poster: "Simple partial movement and clefts"
Nick LaCara: "*On the table lay a book, and on the sofa did too: ellipsis, inversion and why they are bad together"
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Anisa Scheardl "Expressing uncertainty with "gisa" in Tshangla"
and
Jeremy Hartman, with Paul Marty, Peter Graff, Steven Keyed: "Biases in word learning: the case of non-myopic predicates"