SLUGS TO THE EAST
UCSC affiliates were easy to find this weekend at the golden jubilee of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), hosted by MIT. Current PhD students Ben Eischens and Steven Foley were in attendance, as well as PhD alumni Deniz Rudin and Rachel Walker (USC Linguistics) and PhD alumnus and current LRC research associate Peter Svenonius (University of Tromso).
Ben Eischens and Steven Foley presented posters titled “A puzzle of ko-occurrence: negative indefinites in San MartÃn Peras Mixtec” and “The Principle of Minimal Compliance and derivational competition in South Caucasian agreement.”
Peter Svenonius and Rachel Walker gave talks titled “A span is a thing: A span-based theory of words” and “Gradient feature activity in Korean place assimilation.”
Pictured from left are Peter Svenonius, Deniz Rudin, Rachel Walker, Ben Eischens, and Steven Foley.