Fall 2025 (Coordinator: Yingyu Su)
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| 8/27 | All | Organizational meeting |
| 9/3 | Deniz Rudin | Unconventionalizing Common Ground |
| 9/10 | Zhendong Liu | Optional Ergativity in Lhasa Tibetan as a Property of Phrasal Nominalizations |
| 9/17 | Andrew Simpson & Zhixian Huang |
Complex Causes of Word Order Variation: a Study of Object (Re-)positioning in Chinese
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| 9/24 | Nelly Marutyan | Phase-Based Stress Assignment: the Case of Eastern Armenian |
| 10/1 | Peter O’Neill |
Distribution of Tense Across Nonfinite Complements: Evidence from Futurate Genrundives
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| 10/8 | Metehan Oğuz & Burak Öney | Complex Nominal, Binding, and Agreement in Turkish |
| 10/15 | Sahar Taghipour (UCLA) | Ergative and Absolutive Agreement: Microvariation in Kurdish |
| 10/22 | Po-Hsuan Huang | Indexing political identity through syntactic variables |
| 10/29 | JK Subramony | Classifying Inherent Complement Verbs in Avatime |
| 11/5 | Zhi Zheng | Agreement Mistmatch in Uyghur Partitives |
| 11/12 | (Break) | (Cancelled) |
| 11/19 | Zhixian Huang | An alternative-sensitive modal operator: ʑuebiɛ in Jiaxing Wu Chinese |
| Thanksgiving | ||
| 12/3 | Yingyu Su | “Denominal” Verbs without n: Evidence from Tonal Verbalizer in Nantou Hua |
Spring 2025 (Coordinator: Nelly Marutyan)
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| 1/15 | All | Ogranizational meeting |
| 1/22 | Andrew Murphy | Workshop on LaTeX |
| 1/29 | Fulang Chen (MIT) | Causation and Affectedness in Mandarin ba-Constructions |
| 2/12 | Nelly Marutyan | The Morphological Causative of Modern Armenian |
| 2/19 | (Canceled) | |
| 2/26 | Zhixian Huang | Revisiting Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin |
| 3/5 | Yingyu Su |
Context Update with Cantonese Sentence-Final Particle me1/me↓, and the meaning of the final low tone
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| 3/12 | Peter O’Neill | Meaning and aspectual alternations of “see” and “imagine” |
| 3/19 | (Spring break) | |
| 3/26 | Andrew Murphy & Metehan Oğuz | Open House |
| 4/2 | Yingyu Su & Metehan Oğuz | WCCFL preparation |
| 4/9 | Zhendong Liu | SALT preparation |
| 4/16 | Zhendong Liu | Cyclic stop at Spec,TP as a result of Transfer interacting with feature probing order |
| 4/22 | Nelly Marutyan | Functional Heads as Binders |
| 4/30 | Carolina Fraga | Determiner Drop in Vernacular English |
Fall 2024 (Coordinator: Nelly Marutyan)
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| 9/25 | Zhendong Liu | Structures of Mandarin Purposive Clause |
| 10/3 | Carolina Fraga | Completive “todo” and its implications |
| 10/9 | Katie Kennedy | Probing Large Language Models |
| 10/16 | Deniz Rudin | Semantics vs. Pragmatics in the Domain of Context Update |
| 10/23 | Nelly Marutyan | Phase Edges as Binders: the case of Eastern Armenian |
| 10/30 | Yingyu Su | Conext Update with Cantonese Sentence Final Particles “me1” and “me↓” |
| 11/6 | Peter O’Neill |
Seeing is believing: event structure and complementation of imagination and perception predicates
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| (Break) | ||
| 11/20 | Fulang Chen (MIT) | The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative constructions |
| (Break) | ||
| 12/4 | Zhixian Huang | Revisiting Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin |
| 12/19 | Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (University of Helsinki, National University of Singapore) | Voice and extraction in Malayic |
Fall 2023 (Coordinator: Nelly Marutyan)
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| 8/27 | All | Organizational meeting |
| 8/30 |
Elango Kumaran
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| 9/6 | Khalil Iskarous | A Tutorial on Hopf Algebras as a Foundation of the “New” Minimalism |
| 9/13 | Hilda Koopman | A Merge-based Account of Mandarin V1V2 Clusters |
| 9/20 | All | NELS Abstract Review |
| 9/27 | Nelly Marutyan | The Auxiliary as a Prosodic Clitic in Eastern Armenian |
| 10/4 | Travis Major | Clausal Adjunction and Extraction in Avatime |
| 10/11 | Deniz Rudin | |
| 10/18 | Yaqing Hu | Do Chinese bi-comparatives have a Degree Phrase |
| 10/25 | Andrew Simpson and Yaqing Hu | Numerals, Classifiers, and Specificity in Lalo Yi |
| 11/1 | Zhendong Liu | Cyclic A’-movement in Swahili Relative Clauses |
| 11/8 | Metehan Oğuz | Shifty Contexts in Turkish: More than Indexical Shift |
| 11/16 | Luismi Toquero Perez | (Canceled) |
| Thanksgiving | ||
| 11/29 | Nelly Marutyan, Metehan Oğuz, Ariela Ye | Bare singulars in Mandarin, Turkish and Armenian |