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Six Terpresentations in Burnaby, B.C.

March 25, 2015 Linguistics

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WCCFL 33 features work by Dongwoo, Kate, Valentine and Jeff, as well as alumni Alexis Wellwood, Alex Drummond, Dave Kush, Brad Larson, and imminent Terp Maria Polinsky, while alumnus Matt Wagers *08 gives a keynote address.

March 27-29, WCCFL 33 features work by Dongwoo, Kate, Valentine and Jeff, as well as alumni Alexis Wellwood, Alex Drummond, Dave Kush, Brad Larson, and imminent Terp Maria Polinsky. Alumnus Matt Wagers will even give one of the keynote addresses! WCCFL will be held in Burnaby, Canada, just east of Vancouver, at Simon Fraser University, whose campus will readily be recognized by any fan of Battlestar Galactica. Talks: - Kaitlyn Harrigan, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, Syntactic Bootstrapping in the Acquisition of Attitude Verbs - Bradley Larson and Alexis Wellwood, A long-distance morphosyntax and semantics for comparative clauses - Bradley Larson, Nicholas Longenbaugh and Maria Polinsky, Subject/Object Parity in Niuean and the Labeling Algorithm - Matt Wagers, Structuring Expectations Posters: - Dongwoo Park, Korean and Japanese Specificational Pseudoclefts as caseless NP Extraction - Alex Drummond and Dave Kush, Decomposing the Spanish Reflexive Passive