May 11, 2017

WCCFL 35 (2017)

The 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics was recently held at the University of Calgary (program here). Three of the four invited speakers have UofT connections:

Neil Banerjee (UofT BA, now at MIT): Trouble with attitudes and the future

Keir Moulton (UofT BA and MA, now at SFU): A Defence of (C-)Command

Elan Dresher (faculty): Contrastive Hierarchy Theory and the Nature of Features

Also from our department, a talk and a poster:

Rebecca Tollan (Ph.D.) & Will Oxford (Ph.D. 2014, now at the University of Manitoba): Voice-less unergatives: Evidence from Algonquian

Julie Goncharov (Ph.D. 2016, now at Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Monica Irimia (Ph.D 2011, now at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Indexical worlds and modal comparatives

Elan Dresher giving his talk (photo by Darin Flynn, University of Calgary: link)

The Canadian Language Museum (photo by Dennis Storoshenko, University of Calgary)

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