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
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
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
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
(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
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