37.3176, Confs: 57th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (USA)

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Date: 01-Oct-2026
From: Kyle Gorman [kgorman at gc.cuny.edu]
Subject: 57th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society


57th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society
Short Title: NELS 57

Date: 16-Oct-2026 - 18-Oct-2026
Location: New York, USA

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories

The 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS
57) will be hosted by the Graduate Center, City University of New
York. The conference will be held Friday October 16 through Sunday
October 18th, 2026 at the B. Altman & Company Building at 365 5th
Ave., New York, NY. There will be two parallel sessions of oral
presentations, two poster sessions, four keynotes, and a banquet on
Friday.
Registration is now available here:
https://forms.gc.cuny.edu/ling_gcformnels57ticketsalesform/.
We ask that you register by October 9th at the latest so we have an
accurate headcount for catering.
The keynotes will be given by Athulya Aravind (Yale), Jeffrey Heinz
(Stony Brook), Matthew Hewett (Penn), and Ruth Kramer (Georgetown).
The following papers were accepted for oral presentation:
Jérémy Pasquereau; Léa Nash: Diagnosing suppletion across languages
Auromita Mitra: Epistemic inferences with Bangla ‘jodi’ and English
‘if-not-for’ counterfactuals
Monica Alexandrina Irimia; Arsalan Kahnemuyipour; Sahar Taghipour:
Typology and structure of nominalizations: Insights from Persian Ezafe
Aidan Sharma: A Split scope semantics for determiner Spreading
Ka-Fai Yip; Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee: Syntax below words: Verbal suffixation
in Chinese
Jiayuan Chen; Merlin Balkhash: Kazakh epithets: Demonstratives,
possessives, and indexical shift
Rebecca Jarvis: Multiple resumptive clitics in Atchan A- and
A’-movement are derivationally derived
Daniar Kasenov; Charles Reiss: Deriving boundary-sensitive
(morpho-)phonological activity from cyclic feature-filling
Mandy Cartner; Ivy Sichel; Matthew Wagers; Maziar Toosarvandani:
Distinguishing grammatical and intrusive resumptive pronouns in
acceptability and real-time animacy processing
Ashley Triolo: A learning-based account of Korean vowel harmony
Trevor Block; Ha Eun Shim; Logan Born; Keir Moulton; Dennis Ryan
Storoshenko; Sara Williamson; Chung-hye Han: C-command and bound
variable processing: Evidence from the Korean anaphor caki
Anastasiia Vyshnevska: Theme vowels in Ukrainian inchoative
deadjectival verbs
Mariam Asatryan; Eva Neu: Predicative vs. attributive stative
passives: Evidence from Voice
Lee Bickmore; Bronwyn Bjorkman: Empty morphs in Kiwoso Chaga
Shweta Akolkar; Uttam Singha: Covert transitivity underlies fluid-S
alignment in Bishnupriya Manipuri
Lian Wang: Revisiting “Remarks”: The learning of English nominals
Furkan Dikmen; Ömer Demirok; Nikos Angelopoulos: Turkish passives have
implicit arguments
Romany Amber: The unfamiliar is composed of the familiar: Mobile
Affixation in Koasati
Gautam Ottur: Deriving locality from anti-locality: The closest head
condition
Zhouyi Sun: Tigrinya gradable verbs: When verbalizers comparativize
Akil Ismael; Kang Franco Liu: The logic of tucking-in: Cyclic
expansion and anti-locality
Comfort Ahenkorah: From morphosyntax of number to a compositional
semantics: The case of Akan
Nikos Angelopoulos; Léa Nash: Long-distance agree in Tsova Tush: A
relativization account
Petr Kusliy; Ekaterina Vostrikova: The existential past tense as a
PPI: A solution to the puzzle of past perfectives in Russian
Vicki Carstens: Scope rigidity as superiority: Zulu evidence
Faruk Akkuş: Constraints on code-switching in the grammar
Zhouyi Sun; Vlad Orlov; Oddur Snorrason: Concealed pied-piping and 3/4
effects in degree questions in Russian and beyond
Emma Custer: Long-distance allomorphy in Pulaar is locally conditioned
Jana-Elina Jordan; Fenja Plate-Güneş; Sascha Bargmann; Markus Bader;
Gert Webelhuth: Inverse scope between indefinites and negation in
German
Yuko Hirasawa: The (inverse) me-first PCC without morphological
agreement in Japanese ager/kurer
Yitong Luo: German embedded V2 clauses: A quasi-subordination account
Alexander Hamo; Lefteris Paparounas: Category matters: statives,
denominal predicates, and thematic flexibility
The following papers were accepted as posters:
Setayesh Dashti; Ekaterina Vostrikova: A new negated universal
Lulu Guo: Verb-stranding VP ellipsis does exist
Eli Herbst: Optionality in Serbo-Croatian ordinal-superlative
constructions
Akil Ismael: Against partial matching in agree: Evidence from Shilluk
postverbal focus
William Johnston: On the asymmetry between source and goal in complex
directional PPs
Dalina Kallulli; Ian Roberts; Ur Shlonsky; Charles Yang: Types of null
subjects and the test of tolerance
Yağmur Kiper: Two distinct mechanisms for Turkish genitive across
nominalizations
Jane Loney: LDA without movement in Zulu
Katie McCann: Stem minimality explains the phonological dual status of
Kipsigis’ ventive suffix
Kevin Morand: Complement anaphora as polarity-sensitive retrieval
Ryuta Ono: Object shift in nominalized structures: A new type of ECM
Guilherme M. C. Pereira: Variable allomorphy and (non-)blocking
patterns: Revisiting the copula in non-leveled African American
English
Vincent Rouillard: Deriving Strong Polarity Sensitivity and Locality
Effects from Trivalence
Jacob Rowen; Anastasiia Voznesenskaia: Oh the places li’ll go
Coppe van Urk: Outermost wins in Dinka and the theory of
nonconcatenative morphology
Alexander Wimmer; Peng Liu; Daniel Hole: Scalar doubling in minimal
sufficiency constructions
Qi Wu: Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and (de)composition
of try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions
Suyeon Yun: Perceptual similarity in a single grammar: Repair choice
in Mongolian loanwords
Cheman Baira A’gitok: The shapeshifting glottal stop in Garo
Dan Brodkin: Ellipsis, Exponence, and Linearization: A Study of the
Phonological ECP
Keyu Dong; Emma Slater-Smith: A Remaining Puzzle: a special class of
deverbal adjectives
Anna Grabovac: There is them, and then there are them
Veronika Gvozdovaite: Vowel ablaut alternations are floating features:
a case against readjustment
Vincent Yanjie Hu: Towards unifying ATB and non-ATB extraction from
coordination
Monica Alexandrina Irimia: On 3rd PERSON, clitics and passive SE
Aidan Katson: Measured gerunds and the meaning of (re)categorization
Zhendong Liu: nP-phasality at the level of phrasal nominalization
Travis Major; Isaac Warren: Clause complements as VP adjuncts in
Avatime
Maryam Mohammadi: Beyond Conditionals: The Exceptive Modal mage in
Farsi
Yanran Mou; Heather Goad: Affix classes in English: exploring the
effect of weight on demonym selection
Samuel Owoahene Acheampong; Daniel Aremu: (Pseudo-)sluicing in
Likpakpaanl: Syntactic (non)isomorphism meets multiple sources
Vera Rusyanova: Phonology without morphology: A parallel account of
Turoyo verb structure
Ned Sanger: A Dynamic Theory of Fake phi-Features
Ryan Walter Smith: Memory and Motion: a path semantics for memory
predicates in Persian
Oddur Snorrason: Auxiliary selection as feature deletion
Anastasiia Voznesenskaia; Daniel Greeson: To do or not “to do”:
British “do”-ellipsis in infinitival complements
Huilei Wang: Cross-clausal scope effects as a distributivity illusion
constrained by event structure
For the full program, see here:
https://nels57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/schedule/
Co-located with NELS 57, the SynTeach project
(https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/synteach/) is organizing a roundtable
discussion (in a “fishbowl” format) on possible resources for syntax
teaching at the Grad Center at 4:15 on Thursday, October 15, the day
before the start of NELS. For more information and to register, see
here: https://nels57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/synteach-roundtable/



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