Terps a mile high at LSA

Maša on phases and BCS passives, Polina on small complements to P.

January 5 in the new year, Denver, Colorado, is host to the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, featuring work by 4th years Maša Bešlin and Polina Pleshak:

• Maša Bešlin, Passive vP is not phasal in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian [talk]
• Polina Pleshak, Small complements of Ps and the genitive case assignment [poster]

The meeting also has work from alumni Tyler Knowlton *21 (postdoc at Penn), Rodrigo Ranero *21 (postdoc at UCLA), Laurel Perkins *19 (Assistant Professor, UCLA) and Kaitlyn Harrigan *15 (Senior Lecturer, William and Mary); former postdocs Thomas Grano (Associate Professor, Indiana) and Ming Xiang (Associate Professor, Chicago); and also former Baggett Fellow Anissa Zaitsu (PhD student, Stanford).

• Tyler Knowlton, John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou, Non-conservative quantifiers are unlearnable [talk]
• Rodrigo Ranero, Empowering the practitioners of the verbal arts: Lessons from a collaboration with Kaqchikel Ajq’ija’ [poster]
• Laurel Perkins, Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish [poster]
• Kaitlyn Harrigan and Monica Bagnoli, Bootstrapping where? Location changes disrupt intransitive verb mapping [talk]
• Kaitlyn Harrigan, Sensitivity to Finiteness in Novel Attitude Verb Interpretation [poster]
• Alice Benjamin and Kaitlyn Harrigan, Swimming in the desert? The Role of Environment in Motion Verb Acquisition [poster]
• Thomas Grano, Variable modal force in English infinitival relatives: A matter of degree [talk]
• Ming Xiang, Degree estimates as a measure of inference calculation [talk]
• Anissa Zaitsu, Maximality and modality in Wh-infinitivals [poster]