Location: unless otherwise stated, all TripleA 6 events will take place at the room 32-D461. (Lunch will be served on the 8th floor lounge of the Linguistics Department in the same building.) Make sure to get the elevator in Dreyfoos tower, which is closest to the Vassar St. entrance.
NB: In order to help reduce waste, we will not print physical copies of the program. Nevertheless, eduroam and an unsecured MIT wifi are available should participants want to check the program online.
A PDF with the program can be downloaded here.
[Last update: May 29, 2019. Please report errors here: triplea6-contact@mit.edu.]
Quick links: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Friday: May 31st, 2019
| 10:15am | Registration & refreshments | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:45am | Opening remarks (Roger Schwarzschild) | |
| Plenary talk (chair: Roger Schwarzschild) | ||
| 11:00am | Ken Safir | Clausal Complementation and Mutual Selection |
| 12pm | Lunch (catered; 8th floor lounge, Linguistics & Philosophy dept.) | |
| Session #1 (chair: Diti Bhadra) | ||
| 1:40pm | Izabela Jordanoska | Verum particles in Wolof |
| 2:20pm | Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller | Second occurence focus in Wolof |
| 3pm | Frank Staniszewski | Wolof (non) polarity sensitive item dara |
| 3:40pm | Coffee break | |
| Session #2 (chair: Martin Hackl) | ||
| 4pm | Faruk Akkuş | Implicit argument as a free variable: Evidence from pronoun licensing |
| 4:40pm | Madeleine Booth | Semantics of Resumptive Pronouns in Cairene Arabic |
| 5:20pm | End | |
Saturday: June 1st, 2019
| 8:45am | Breakfast | |
|---|---|---|
| Session #3 (chair: Christopher Baron) | ||
| 09:20 | Margit Bowler & John Gluckman | Polysemy and degree scales in Logoori |
| 10am | Maida Percival | Degree constructions and directed scale segments in Eastern Oromo |
| 10:40am | Coffee break | |
| Plenary talk (chair: Sandra Chung) | ||
| 11am | Virginia Dawson | Paths to exceptional wide scope: choice functions in Tiwa |
| 12pm | Lunch* (catered; 8th floor lounge, Linguistics & Philosophy dept.) | |
| Session #4 (chair: Kathryn Davidson) | ||
| 1:30pm | Deniz Satik | Interpreting the nonfinite logophoric pronoun in Ewe |
| 2:10pm | Abigail Anne Bimpeh & Frank Sode | Puzzling sloppy readings of the logophoric pronoun yè in Ewe |
| 2:50pm | Break | |
| Session #5 (chair: Sherry Chen) | ||
| 3pm | Sarath Chandran Manthodi & Rahul Balusu | NPI/FCIs of Malayalam: Division of labour between wh-engilum & wh-um |
| 3:40pm | Tamisha Tan | Colloquial Singapore English Particle What and the (Un)Common Ground |
| 4:20pm | Coffee break | |
| Plenary talk (chair: Gennaro Chierchia) | ||
| 4:40pm | Diti Bhadra | Questions with and about disjunction |
| 5:40pm | Business meeting | |
*The COSWL Pop-Up Mentoring session will be held at this time
Sunday: June 2nd, 2019
| 8:30am | Breakfast | |
|---|---|---|
| Plenary talk (chair: Norvin Richards) | ||
| 9am | Sandra Chung | A Different Perspective on Control |
| 10am | Coffee break | |
| Session #6 (chair: Virginia Dawson) | ||
| 10:20am | Yi-Hsun Chen | Classifiers are not for nouns (but for numerals) - evidence from Chinese |
| 11am | Augustina P. Owusu & Sampson Korsah | Bare nouns in Akan revisited |
| 11:40am | Luisa Martí | The semantics of noun prefixes in Imere |
| 12:20pm | End | |