Fedya, Luisa and Polina at ECO-5

April 14, 2022 Linguistics

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On Chuvash light verbs, Finno-Ugric genitives and medial wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois.

Saturday April 16, Polina Pleshak, Luisa Seguin and Fedya Golosov are up in Cambridge at ECO-5, a regular meeting of graduate students from 5 schools on the East Coast: MIT, Harvard, UMass, UConn and UMD.

Fedya Golosov, Semantics of the light verb tok 'leave' in Poshkart Chuvash: Telicity and distributivity
Polina Pleshak, Finno-Ugric genitive: A problem for current theories of case assignment?
Luisa Seguin, A dedicated whP in the Low Left Periphery: Evidence from clause-internal wh-words in Valdôtain Patois