MIT Linguistics was well represented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 14 held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Some of our current faculty colleague and almuni gave invited talks:

• Shigeru Miyagawa: The Treetop Structure in Asian Languages
• Lisa Cheng (PhD 1991)[Leiden University]: The structure of verbalization
• Yoonjung Kang (PhD 2000)[University of Toronto]: Dialectal Variation in Korean Vowel Harmony

Several of our faculty and alumni also gave the following talks:

• Eunsun Jou (Postdoc; PhD 2024): A successive-cyclic dependent case account of adverbial case alternation in Korean passives
• Yang Dongwen, Masatoshi Koizumi (PhD 1995)[Tohoku University]: Asymmetrical Topicalization and Clitics in Seediq
• Trần Phan, Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (PhD 1994)[National Tsing Hua University]: Locative wh as negation in Vietnamese