Goings-on in Gotham

Santa Cruz was well represented at NELS56, recently held at NYU (October 17-19, 2025).

Current and erstwhile slugs delivered at least four talks and four posters at this year’s edition of NELS:

Talks

1. Yağmur Kiper, “Ellipsis as leverage for dependent case theory”
2. Emily Knick, “Proximate futures in English and Turkish: An analogy between spatial and temporal proximity”
3. Aidan Katson, “Expanding the nominal in English ACC- and POSS-ing nominalizations”
4. Emilio Gonzalez, (UCSC B.A. ’22), now a graduate student in Linguistics at UCSD, “Condition A, logophors, and wh-movement”

Posters

1. Emma Slater-Smith,”An Agree-based Account of PCC in English Double Object Constructions”
2. Mandy Cartner (Tel Aviv University), “Intra-sentential code switching at the syntax-prosody interface”, co-authored with Julia Horvath
3. Niko Webster and Ivy Sichel, “Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function”, co-authored with Mandy Cartner, Matthew Kogan, and Matt Wagers