RULing

RULing is our annual student-run linguistics conference featuring presentations from students, faculty, and alums from our department. The Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics volume features papers from this conference.

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

• RULing 2013
  
  • RULing 2013 will take place on Saturday, April 20.  A working schedule can be found here.

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• RULing 2012
  • Invited Speaker: Daphna Heller "Common Ground and the Probabilistic Nature of Referential Domains"
  • Student Officers: Vandana Bajaj and Nagarajan Selvanathan
  • Presenters:
    • Jeremy Perkins "Perception of Consonnt-Tone Interactions in Thai"
    • Aaron Braver and Shigeto Kawahara "Incomplete Neutralization in Japanese Monomoraic Lengthening"
    • Sara J O'Neill "On the consequences of removing maximal foot size restrictions from GEN in an exhaustively footed factorial typology of QI stress"
    • Matt Barros "Marooned in Silence: Arguments against Island Repair under Ellipsis"
    • Atushi Oho "Scrambling and dependency in multiple wh-questions"
    • Beibei Xu "A possible uniform account of neutral, biased and rhetorical polar questions: a case analysis of German and Mandarin"

• RULing 2011
  • Invited Speaker: Eric Baković "Breaking down rule interactions"
  • Student Officers: Věra Dvořák and Matthew Barros
  • Presenters:
    • Asya Achimova "Naive speakers vs. professional linguists – same or different?"
    • Crystal Akers "Learning paradigmatic equals: resolving global lexical ambiguity"
    • Vandana Bajaj "The role of narrative structure and the QUD in scopal ambiguity resolution"
    • Julio Barbosa "A unifying account for English compounds"
    • Matthew Barros "Something else on exceptive constructions"
    • Aaron Braver "Perception of /t/ and /d/ flaps in American English: Some early results"
    • Paula Houghton "Switch languages"
    • Todor Koev "Watch your appositive! On the pragmatic differences between clause-medial and clause-final appositive RCs"
    • Sara O’Neill "Postverbal adverbs in English"
    • Jeremy Perkins "Consonant-tone interaction in Thai: A perception experiment"
    • Peter Staroverov "Realization of Russian word-final consonant clusters"
    • Teresa Torres "The role of past tense in mirativity"
    • Billy Xu "Comparatives in English"
    • Masahiro Yamada "Plural predication with 'with'"

• RULing 2010
  • Invited speakers: Oluseye Adesola "Tense and Negation in Yoruba" and Yael Sharvit "De Re Pronouns and Unexpected BT Effects"
  • Student officers: James Bruno and Carlo Linares
  • Presenters:
    • Asya Achimova "Revisiting Wh/Quantifier Interaction: What Experimentation Can Tell Us About Grammar"
    • Crystal Akers "Learning Multiple Hidden Structures" 
    • William Grover Bennett "On Ejectives in Amharic"
    • Aaron Braver "Incomplete Neutralization in American English Flapping
    • Teresa Torres-Bustamante "Mirativity in Spanish"
    • Ryan Denzer-King "The Subobviative in Blackfoot"
    • Věra Dvořák "A Secondary Imperfectization Puzzle"
    • Carlos Fasola "The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Correlatives 
    • Paula Houghton "Alignment 
    • Todor Koev "On Event-Level Evidentiality"
    • Jeremy Perkins "Nuclear Stress in English"

• RULing 2009
  • Invited speaker: Roger Schwarzschild "The Mass-Count Distinction"
  • Student officers: Crystal Akers and Paula Houghton
  • Presenters:
    • Matthew Barros "Co-Construal & Identity in Ellipsis"
    • Aaron Braver "DP-Internal Ellipsis in Spanish"
    • James Bruno "Absolute Constructions: Telicity, DP-licensing, and Micro-Variation"
    • Věra Dvořák "On Ditransitives in Czech
    • Heeshin Koak "Structural Case Assignment in Double Nominative Constructions"
    • Sarah Murray "Evidentials and Questions in Cheyenne"
    • Michael O’Keefe "Central Alaskan Yup'ik Stress
    • Jeremy Perkins Phonetic Effects of Glottalization in Onset-Tone Interaction in Thai"

• RULing 2008
  • Invited speaker: Ken Safir "Transitivity and Reflexivity: A Bantu Perspective"
  • Student officers: Aaron Braver, Paula Houghton, Carlo Linares, Michael O'Keefe, and Jeremy Perkins
  • Presenters:
    • Will Bennett "Clicks and Complex Stops Are Very, Very Different"
    • Aaron Braver "Phonetic Opacity: Flapping and Vowel Length in American English" 
    • Patrick Houghton "On the Distribution of Clausal Gerunds) Mike O'Keefe (Argument Composition"
    • Sarah Murray "Evidentials and Propositional Content"
    • Jeremy Perkins "Canadian Diphthong Raising"
    • Will Starr "The Interrogative Theory of Iffiness" 

• RULing 2007
  • Invited speaker: Jane Grimshaw
  • Student officers: John Manna, Paula Houghton, Seunghun J. Lee, and Sarah Murray
  • Presenters:
    • Daniel Altshuler "Is Osage a Stress-Driven-Tone or a Tone-Driven-Stress Language?"
    • Will Bennett "Clicks: a conundrum"
    • Carlos Fasola "A Unified Evidential Semantics for the Quechua Yes/No Question and Negation marker –chu"
    • Michael Johnson "The Punctuation Theory of Quotation"
    • Xiao Li "Chinese Verbal Comparatives Degreeless"
    • John Manna "Default Reasoning and Argument Resolution"
    • Sarah Murray "Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Underspecification"
    • Nadya Vinokurova "Capturing the Possessor" 

• RULing 2006
  •  Invited speakers:
    
    • Maria Bittner "Referents for Natural Language Quantifiers"
    • Alan Prince "The Pursuit of Theory"
  • Student officers: John Manna, Daniel Altshuler, Michael O'Keefe, Sarah Murray, Xiao Li, Naz Merchant, Slavica Kochovska, Seunghun J. Lee, and Jessica Rett
  • Presenters:
    • Daniel Altshuler "Embedded tenses in Russian: A parametric extension of Abusch and Filling the Gap: QI Iambs and the Typology of Feet"
    • Heeshin Koak "Allomorph Selection in Korean Nominal Suffixes"
    • Slavica Kochovska "Intervention Effects in Macedonian Wh- Questions"
    • Hyunjoo Kim "A-Bar Intervention Effects in why-questions [presented by Seunghun Lee]"
    • Xiao Li "On Comparative Quantification in the Verbal Domain: Japanese –sugi Constructions Revisited"
    • John G. Manna "Centering and Anaphora in Japanese"
    • Vita Markman "Subject case, Object case: Accusativity, Ergativity, and Agreement"
    • Nazzarre Merchant "Using local lexica to learn ranking information and underlying feature values"
    • Sarah E. Murray "Selective Faithfulness Theory and Voicing Assimilation"
    • Michael O’Keefe "Non-local assimilation via Heads, Edges, Association, and Domains"
    • Jessica Rett "What –exclamatives"