Tamura and Webster at SICOGG/WAFL

Over the summer, PhD students Jun Tamura and Niko Webster traveled to Jeonju, South Korea to attend a joint meeting of the Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar and the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, which took place at Jeonbuk National University in August. Niko presented a talk titled “Acategorial licensing of internal arguments in Korean”. Jun presented a solo talk on “Superlatives without degree abstraction: Ichiban superlatives in Japanese,” as well as a joint talk with Professor Haoze Li, a recent Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department and now Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University.