January at MIT is a quiet month, without regular classes and regularly scheduled events — so you might not hear from us again until the new semester begins in February 2025.  Of course, we will report any interesting events as they happen, even before the start of the new semester.  Meanwhile, we wish you a Happy New Year, and hope to welcome you back to Whamit next semester.

The MIT Linguistics community actively participated in the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024 held at University of Amsterdam on December 18-20. Our current students and faculty gave the following talks:

• Adèle Hénot-Mortier (6th year): Scalarity, information structure and relevance in varieties of Hurford Conditionals
• Jad Wehbe (5th year), Kate Kinnaird (Lab Manager), Martin Hackl (Faculty; PhD 2001): Distributivity facilitates ACD resolution

Several of our recent alumni from the past decade presented:

• Tatiana Bondarenko (PhD 2022)[Harvard], Richard Luo, Vincent Rouillard (PhD 2023)[Harvard]: Thinking Statively and Dynamically: a view from Georgian
• Patrick Elliott & Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (PhD 2023)[Paris Lodron Universit