Six Terpresentations in Burnaby, B.C.
March 25, 2015
Linguistics
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