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MIT was represented by several current students and alumni:</p> <ul> <li>Johanna Alstott (first-year): Ordinal Numbers: Not Superlatives, but Modifiers of Superlatives</li> <li>Ido Benbaji (fourth-year): Is nothing irreplaceable? A substitution theory of de re</li> <li>Omri Doron (fourth-year): Another look at the Mapping Hypothesis: evidence from Hebrew </li> <li>Yash Sinha (fourth-year): Number morphology in Hindi coordinative compounds</li> <li><a href="https://trinhhuutue.com/">Tuệ Trịnh</a> (PhD, 2011): Contextual bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questions</li> <li>Deniz Özyıldız & <a href="https://www.wataruuegaki.com/">Wataru Uegaki</a> (PhD, 2015): Two kinds of question-embedding strategies & veridicality alternations</li> <li>Luis Alonso-Ovalle & <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/aronhirsch/home">Aaron Hirsh</a> (PhD, 2017): Weakening is external to ‘only’</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/D72B2BB2-B048-4C43-B3C1-2C604A0F8DB9_1_102_o.jpeg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-15664" src="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/D72B2BB2-B048-4C43-B3C1-2C604A0F8DB9_1_102_o.jpeg" alt="" width="341" height="256" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-062112.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-15663" src="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-062112.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="256" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-153650.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-15666" src="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-153650.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="256" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-062226.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-15665" src="http://whamit.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMAGE-2023-05-15-062226.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="254" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post hentry"> <h3 id="post-15660" class="entry-title"><a href="http://whamit.mit.edu/2023/05/15/syntax-square-5-16-ksenia-ershova-mit-2/" rel="bookmark">Syntax Square 5/16 - Ksenia Ershova (MIT)</a></h3>  <div class="main entry-content group"> <p><strong>Speaker: </strong> Ksenia Ershova (MIT)<br class=""><strong>Title: </strong>Move me high, pronounce me low: Diagnosing argument asymmetries in West Circassian nominalizations<br class=""><strong>Time: </strong>Tuesday, May 16th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=""><strong>Location: </strong>32-D461<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Abstract: </strong>Nominalizations in West Circassian, a polysynthetic, high absolutive language, display a puzzling mismatch in diagnostics for argument asymmetries. On the one hand, reciprocal binding suggests that the theme of a transitive verb c-commands the external argument, analogous to finite clauses. On the other hand, the ordering of arguments in nominalizations are constrained in accordance with thematic roles, with the external argument obligatorily surfacing further from the verbal root than the internal argument, suggesting that the external argument c-commands the theme. I argue that this apparent mismatch results from constraints on licensing and spell-out in the nominal domain: while the internal argument raises to a position c-commanding the ergative agent, it must be spelled out in the lower position due to conditions on licensing by adjacency. 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