Strong presence of L&LS at this year’s LAGB conference

Posted on 14 September 2023

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science had a very strong presence at this year's conference of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain in Cambridge earlier this month, with a range of paper presentations.

There were presentations by the following Masters and PhD students:

Harper McCarley (MA in Comparative Syntax and Semantics)
A cross-linguistic investigation into the syntax of unmarked tense
Shiyang Fu (PhD Student)
Rethinking Parallelism in Across-The-Board Extractions
Lu Jin (PhD Student)
Syntax-Semantics Mismatch: A Hidden Meaning in Chinese Aggregate Classifiers (Best Student Abstract Winner)
Victoria Noble (PhD Student)
Flavours of Plurality and Division

As well as presentations by our staff and international collaborators:

Yi Liu (Aston University, UK)
Kook-Hee Gil (Univesity of Sheffield, UK)
George Tsoulas (University of York, UK)
Mandarin Chinese plurals: an experimental investigation

Norman Yeo
Colliding grammars: Experiential aspect in Colloquial Singapore English
Glyn Hicks (University of Southampton, UK)
Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton, UK)
E Jamieson (University of Southampton, UK)
Monika Schmid (University of York, UK)
L1 grammatical attrition in late Spanish/English bilinguals in the UK: Aspect in Spanish

York Alumni also presented work at the conference:

Rebecca Woods (PhD 2016, currently Lecturer in Language and COgnition, University of Newcastle)
Glyn Hicks (PhD 2008, current Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southampton)
Dany Bate (BA English Language and Linguistics 2018, current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh)