FOX FEST

WORKSHOP TO CELEBRATE PROFESSOR DANNY FOX’S 60TH BIRTHDAY

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2026
10AM TO 5:30PM

32 VASSAR STREET
BLDG. 32 ROOM 155
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139

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9:30am – 10:00am Light Breakfast (in front of Room 32-155)
10:00am – 10:20am Opening Remarks by Dean Agustin Rayo
10:20am – 11:20am Susi Wurmbrand
Universität Salzburg
Questions and thoughts about LF from a syntax−first perspective
Commentator: David Pesetsky (MIT)
11:20am – 12:20pm Jad Wehbe
MIT
Economy and the distribution of together
Commentator: Jon Gajewski (University of Connecticut)
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch + Poster Session
  Poster Session

Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University) and Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University)
Explicit kind DPs: Evidence for Wilkinson’s approach

Itai Bassi (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft and Ben Gurion University)
Weak crossover and global competition

Omri Doron (Masaryk University)
Transparent accommodation: On the ease of accommodating implicatures (joint work with Ido Benbaji-Elhadad)

Jon Gajewski (University of Connecticut) and Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
You can’t lie and license NPIs

Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (Universität Salzburg)
Generalizing von Stechow’s problem

Jon Nissenbaum (City University of New York)
How likely to reconstruct is a pied-piped AP or a subject that has raised out of it?

Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich-Heine Universität)
Linear order and projection: The case of extraposed restrictors (joint work with Alexandros Kalomoiros and Florian Schwarz)

Ayaka Sugawara (Waseda University)
A pilot study on focus association with “always” in Japanese learners of English

Tue Trinh (University of Nova Gorica)
Whither ‘whether’, and whence

Wataru Uegaki (The University of Edinburg)
Principle of least effort and compositionality (joint work with Anne Mucha and Ciyang Qing)
2:00pm – 3:00pm Shoichi Takahashi
Aoyama Gakuin University
Recipient (sub)extraction: A case for cyclic linearization
Commentator: Elise Newman (MIT)
3:00pm – 4:00pm Tanya Bondarenko1 and Richard Luo2
1Harvard University, 2Yale University
Interpreting clausal movement (joint work with Jacob Fernandes and Kaden Holladay)
Commentator: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
4:00pm – 4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30pm – 5:30pm Roni Katzir
Tel Aviv University
The roles of grammar and pragmatics in focus dependencies
Commentator: Amir Anvari (MIT)