The program for the 2016 LSA annual meeting is out and it looks like UChicago will have another strong showing at the upcoming annual meeting! The list of presentations is given below (presentation info for the meetings of the sister societies and other symposiums are not yet available).
- “Decomposing complex relations between phonological maps” by Eric Bakovic, Lev Blumenfeld, Jeff Heinz, and Jason Riggle
- “Strictly speaking, precisification is not slack regulation” by Andrea Beltrama and Peter Klecha (PhD alum, ’14)
- “Severing the external argument from the aspectual verb” by Thomas Grano (PhD alum, ’10) and Brandon Rhodes
- “Conventionalization of the Lexicon in a Family Homesign System” by Laura Horton, Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Diane Brentari
- “Emerging Morphology in Nicaraguan Sign Language Agent and Number Marking” by Laura Horton, Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Diane Brentari
- “Demoting the agent in Nicaraguan Sign Language effects of language input on linguistic structure” by Lilia Rissman, Laura Horton, Diane Brentari, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
- “Prosody-driven extraposition of CPs in Malagasy” by Daniel Edmiston and Eric Potsdam
- “Two types of speaker’s ignorance over the epistemic space Referential vagueness marker “inka” vs. epistemic subjunctive marker “nka” in Korean” by Arum Kang (PhD alum, ’15) and Suwon Yoon (PhD alum, ’11)
- “Unfortunately, you are bello tall. When bleaching can’t tell the whole story” by Andrea Beltrama
- “’Not very’ Adj Vagueness and implicature calculation” by Timothy Leffel, Alexandre Cremers, Jacopo Romoli, and Nicole Gotzner
- “The Semantics of Domain Adverbs” by Thomas Ernst and Timothy Grinsell
- “Differential effects of background knowledge on absolute vs. relative adjective interpretation” by Timothy Leffel, Chris Kennedy, and Ming Xiang
- “The syntax of synthetic and periphrastic tenses in Ndebele” by Asia Pietraszko
- “Dimensions of (Non)configurationality Argument Structure in Adyghe” by Ksenia Ershova
- “Multi-verb constructions in two languages of Northern Australia” by Dorothea Hoffmann
- “This is, like, a mirative construction! “Like” between uncertainty and surprise” by Andrea Beltrama and Emily Hanink
- “When Relative Clause Extraposition is the Right Choice, it’s Easier” by Elaine Francis (PhD alum, 1999) and Laura A Michaelis