McGill linguists will be presenting their work at the upcoming 52nd meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 52), hosted virtually by Rutgers University October 29–31. More information and the full program are available here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/nels-52/.
Talks:
- Subeventive modal projection: the case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University), Paula Menendez-Benito (University of Tuebingen), Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Reconciling maximality with cumulativity in questions
Aron Hirsch (ZAS Berlin), Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University) - Pair-list Readings of Questions: New Evidence from Specificational Pseudoclefts
Jing Ji (McGill University)
Posters:
- Discourse particles in semantic composition: the case of German ‘denn’
Alexander Göbel (McGill University), Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University) - Person restrictions depend on overt agreement, not nominal licensing
Stefan Keine (UC Los Angeles), Will Oxford (University of Manitoba), Jessica Coon (McGill University) - Revisiting additives’ interaction with exhaustivity
Mathieu Paillé (McGill University)