{"id":4243,"date":"2026-09-03T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:00:23","slug":"rutgers-linguistics-at-elm-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/rutgers-linguistics-at-elm-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Linguistics at ELM 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past June, Rutgers Linguistics was well-represented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elm-conference.net\/elm-4-2026\/elm-4-full-list-of-presentations\/\">ELM 4<\/a>) at UPenn. The large group of Rutgers-affiliated presenters (both past and present!) and attendees included Dr. Ziling Zhu (current post-doc at the University of Gottingen), Dr. Shannon Bryant (current RuCCs faculty), Dr. Mark Baker, Dr. Dorothy Ahn, Dr. Kristen Syrett, and Dr. Yagmur Sag (current faculty at Swarthmore College).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4245 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/09\/ELM-Kristen-Syrett-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Dr. Ziling Zhu, Dr. Kristen Syrett, Dr. Dorothy Ahn, Dr. Shannon Bryant, Dr. Yagmur Sag (Right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graduate alum Ziling Zhu (current post-doc at the University of Gottingen) presented <a href=\"https:\/\/elm-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELM4\/Abstracts\/paper29.pdf\">joint work<\/a> with Zahra Mirrazi and Hedde Zeijlstra, titled &#8220;When does &#8216;hope&#8217; neg-raise?: An experimental report on four languages,&#8221; and she also presented <a href=\"https:\/\/elm-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELM4\/Abstracts\/paper15.pdf\">joint work<\/a> with Setayesh Dashti and Hedde Zeijlstra titled &#8220;NALL is learnable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Current Rutgers faculty, Shannon Bryant and Mark Baker, presented <a href=\"https:\/\/elm-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELM4\/Abstracts\/paper92.pdf\">joint work<\/a> on &#8220;The Semantics of Control: Evidence from English Control Shift,&#8221; and Shannon Bryant and Kristen Syrett presented <a href=\"https:\/\/elm-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELM4\/Abstracts\/paper145.pdf\">joint work<\/a> titled &#8220;English Reflexive Use is Mediated by Event Role Construal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past June, Rutgers Linguistics was well-represented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 4) at UPenn. 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