This year (AY 2024-2025) the Morph-Syn organizers, along with student coordinators at four other Midwestern linguistics departments (UIUC, UMich, IU, and UW-Milwaukee), are excited to present a collaborative project: MWSSE (MidWest Syntax & Semantics Exchange)! The name is pronounced like the English word muse. The wider exchange grew from a pilot exchange between UChicago and UIUC in AY 2023-2024. The goal of MWSSE will is to give students at the five participating schools who are working on relevant projects the chance to present their work (at any stage of completion) in a low-stakes, welcoming way while also building networks, receiving useful feedback, and joining/participating in the intellectual community!
The structure of MWSSE is as follows: it is specifically an exchange between Morph-Syn and the four equivalent reading groups/workshops at the other four participating institutions. Students who wish to present will claim an open date at one of the institutions and work with the student coordinator at that school to work out the logistics of the visit. As MWSSE presentations occur at the various reading groups, this page will be populated with a list of presentations, links to hybrid options where available, and (hopefully) pictures of the visits!
The 5 participating reading groups (with the relevant MWSSE student coordinators) are as follows:
Chicago (Akshay Aitha; aitha@uchicago.edu): Morphology & Syntax Workshop
Illinois (Walther Glodstaf; wag4@illinois.edu): claSSi
Michigan (Aya Halabi; halabi@umich.edu): SynSem Discussion Group
Indiana (Jose Benavides & Elder Henrique Attala e Paiva; josbenav@iu.edu & eattala@iu.edu): Syntax-Semantics Reading Group
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Aisha Fuddah; afuddah@uwm.edu): S-Group
2024-2025 MWSSE presentations:
November 1, 2024: Sid Bhushan (Michigan) presenting at Chicago: Number-driven gender syncretism and Impoverishment: some insights from Kannada
December 10, 2024: Lucas Fagen (Chicago) presenting at Illinois: The semantics of just.
2023-2024 UChicago-UIUC Exchange presentations:
November 17, 2023: Joshua Dees (Illinois) presenting at Chicago: Evidence of concord between (T)ense and temporal adverbs: A diachronic analysis of Dholuo.
March 6, 2024: Kutay Serova (Chicago) presenting at Illinois: On the Derivational Routes Of Shared Exponence.
March 20, 2024: Akshay Aitha (Chicago) presenting at Illinois: Morphologically- and Phonologically-Conditioned Exponent Choice in Telugu: Readjustment and the Timing of VI.
March 22, 2024: Walther Glodstaf (Illinois) presenting at Chicago: Support from Priming for Case Morphology not being part of the Lexicon.
April 3, 2024: Xiaobei Chen (Chicago) presenting at Illinois: TBA.
Stay tuned for more!