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Several Rutgers linguistics students (and faculty member Dr. Ryan Walter Smith) participated in the 57th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57), which was held on October 16 \u2013 18, 2026, at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City.<\/p>\n

Among the conference presenters were current graduate students Aidan Sharma, who presented his research titled \u201cA Split Scope Semantics for Determiner Spreading\u201d, and Jiayuan Chen, who presented co-authored work with Merlin Balkhash, \u201cKazakh Epithets: Demonstratives, Possessives, and Indexical Shift.” Dr. Ryan Walter Smith, a faculty member, presented a poster titled \u201cMemory and Motion: A Path Semantics for Memory Predicates in Persian\u201d during Poster Session 2.<\/p>\n

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Jiayuan Chen, Aidan Sharma, Ariela Ye, Ryan W. Smith, and Ka Hin Ng at NELS57.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The annual conference brought together linguistics researchers and scholars to share their work and discuss developments across the field. For more information about the conference and its program, visit the NELS 57 website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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