There are a number of UChicago connections at the concurrent meeting of SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas):

1. “Information structure conditioned word order in Potawatomi” by Robert Lewis
2. ” On the pragmatic relationship indexed by Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki” by Amy Dahlstrom
3. “A preliminary study on accentuation in Hidatsa” by John Boyle (PhD alum 2008) et al.
4. “Perfect ‘status’ and its relationship to morphosyntax in Kaqchikel” by Raina Heaton & Judith Maxwell (PhD alum 1982)
5.  Special session in memory of Emmon Bach (UChicago PhD in Germanic, 1959)
6.  Introduction to the Emmon Bach session by Barbara Partee, (UChicago honorary degree, 2014)

Full SSILA schedule here:
http://www.ssila.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SSILA-2016-schedule-rev.pdf

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).

1. “Decomposing complex relations between phonological maps” by Eric Bakovic, Lev Blumenfeld, Jeff Heinz, and Jason Riggle
2. “Strictly speaking, precisification is not slack regulation” by Andrea Beltrama  and Peter Klecha (PhD alum, ’14)
3. “Severing the external argument from the aspectual verb” by Thomas Grano (PhD alum, ’10) and Brandon Rhodes
4. “Conventionalization of the Lexicon in a Family Homesign System” by Laura Horton, Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Diane Brentari 
5. “Emerging Morphology in Nicaraguan Sign Language Agent and Number Marking” by Laura Horton, Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Diane Brentari 
6. “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 
7. “Prosody-driven extraposition of CPs in Malagasy” by Daniel Edmiston and Eric Potsdam
8. “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)
9. “Unfortunately, you are bello tall. When bleaching can’t tell the whole story” by Andrea Beltrama 
10. “’Not very’ Adj Vagueness and implicature calculation” by Timothy Leffel, Alexandre Cremers, Jacopo Romoli, and Nicole Gotzner
11. “The Semantics of Domain Adverbs” by Thomas Ernst and Timothy Grinsell 
12. “Differential effects of background knowledge on absolute vs. relative adjective interpretation” by Timothy Leffel, Chris Kennedy, and Ming Xiang
13. “The syntax of synthetic and periphrastic tenses in Ndebele” by Asia Pietraszko
14. “Dimensions of (Non)configurationality Argument Structure in Adyghe” by Ksenia Ershova 
15. “Multi-verb constructions in two languages of Northern Australia” by Dorothea Hoffmann 
16. “This is, like, a mirative construction! “Like” between uncertainty and surprise” by Andrea Beltrama and Emily Hanink
17. “When Relative Clause Extraposition is the Right Choice, it’s Easier” by Elaine Francis (PhD alum, 1999) and Laura A Michaelis