Simon Fraser University is hosting WCCFL 33 this weekend, and UMass will be out in force. Current residents of the department at WCCFL are:
Stefan Keine, who will be presenting the paper “Locality domains in syntax: evidence from processing
Robert Staubs, who will be giving the paper “Computational modeling of nonfinality effects on stress typology."
Anisa Schardl, who will be giving the poster “Two kinds of partial movement: Evidence from Dholuo and German wh-questions."
Jon Ander Mendia, who will be giving the poster “Typicality Effects and Distributivity."
Alex Drummond, who will be giving the paper “Decomposing the Spanish Causative Reflexive Passive,” with Dave Kush
Kyle Johnson, who will be giving the paper “3D QR"
Members of the UMass diaspora at WCCFL are:
Elliott Moreton and Jen Smith, who will be giving the paper “Emergent faithfulness to proper nouns in novel English blends,” with Katya Pertsova and Brandon Prickett
Amy Rose Deal, who will be giving the paper “TP is a phase in relative clauses."
Andrew Mckenzie, who will be giving the paper “ ‘Almost’ as a variable-force modal,” with Lydia Newkirk
Ana Arregui, who will be giving the paper “Grammaticalizing the size of situations: the case of Bulgarian,” with Maria Luisa Rivero and Nikolay Slakov
Karen Jesney, who will be giving the paper “Positions are defined on the input: Evidence from repairs in child phonology."
Rose-Marie Déchaine, who will be giving the poster “Head-merge, adjunct-merge, and the syntax of root categorization,” with Natalie Weber
