Current graduate students Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, and Jiayuan Chen represented Rutgers at TripleA 12, held September 10-12 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Rutgers alum Seunghun J. Lee (PhD 2008), who is now a Professor at International Christian University, also attended TripleA 12.

Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, and Jiayuan Chen had a co-authored presentation titled “Definiteness and familiarity in Yemba,” and the abstract for this talk can be accessed here. Also, note that the material for this presentation came from a Field Methods course here at Rutgers!

Aidan Sharma also had a solo presentation on “Magahi determiner spreading,” and the abstract can be found here.