News from our PGR community (September-December 2023)

Posted on 5 December 2023

Our community of PhD students is very active and vibrant, and their research findings have reached far and wide this semester!. These are some of the latest academic presentations by the department’s doctoral researchers since September 2023.

Buhan Guo (with Nino Grillo, Sven Mattys, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett and Giuseppina Turco) presented “Prosody disambiguates string-identical connected clauses and relative clauses” at AMLaP 2023 in San Sebastian, Spain.
Rosario Neyra (with Matthew Butler) presented “Bodily movements and nonlexical vocalizations as embodied turn completions: An examination of aspect” at the Embodied Syntax Network Conference in Linköping, Sweden.
Jamie Adams presented “Gradient Acceptability of Mandarin Non-Words in Five Tone Conditions” at CSL 2023 (New Trends in Chinese as a Second Language) in Lancaster, UK.
Victoria Noble (with George Tsoulas) presented “Exoskeletal Iceberg Semantics - Grammar and perception in the mass/count distinction” at SPE 12 / OASIS 3 (Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium /Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics)
Shiyang Fu (with Norman Yeo) presented on Restrictions on quantity specification of amount wh-phrase fronting in Mandarin Chinese at the Workshop of Semantics and Pragmatics in the North (SPINfest 2023), University of Salford, Manchester, on 15 November 2023.
Aknan Sindi (with George Tsoulas) presented “Decomposing Arabic exceptives” as NESS 2023 (North East Syntax Seminar), at the University of York.