The 43rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society will be held at the City University of New York on October 19-21, 2012. The invited speakers for the conference are: Robert Frank (Yale University) Juliette Blevins (CUNY Graduate Center) Tarald Taraldsen (CASTL/ University of Tromsø) The general conference will be followed by a special one afternoon workshop on computation and theoretic