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Super conference acceptances

Fourth-year Nassira Nicola recently learned some exciting news: the acceptance of her submission to the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 10) in October at Purdue University.  She’ll be presenting her paper, “Re-Analyzing Plural Classifier Predicates in American Sign Language.” Congrats, Nassira!

Third-year grad Ryan Bochnak also has a poster acceptance to a big conference, this year’s Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 20) in Vancouver, April 29-May 1. His poster is on “Quantity and gradability across categories.” Just a few days later, he’ll give a talk on “Exceed comparatives in Luganda” at the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Toronto, May 6-8.

[Update] And this just in:

Max Bane (Linguistics) and Morgan Sonderegger (Computer Science), along with Peter Graff (MIT, Linguistics) have been accepted to present a poster titled “Longitudinal phonetic variation in a closed system” at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12), July 8-10 at the University of New Mexico.

Looking forward to hearing about these appearances!

Some recent Canada conferences

Alan Yu gave two invited lectures in Canada this past couple weeks. The first lecture, “Washo Word Prosody”, was presented at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 15) at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. He then presented “When does perceptual compensation fail? The implications of analyzing channel bias rationally” at the Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition at the University of Alberta – Edmonton.

Meanwhile, third-year grad Alice Lemieux also presented at University of Ottawa for WSCLA 15 a couple weeks ago. Her presentation was titled “Small but significant – body part incorporation in Washo,” and the abstract can be found here.

More for Max and Morgan

In addition to each presenting at BLS36, Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger have a couple more talks lined up in the near future.

First, Max will be presenting a longer version of his work on the English dative alternation at the Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop on February 8, as well as a related paper, “Deriving the Structure of Non-Variation in the English Dative,” at WCCFL 28 later in the month, rounding out a nice West Coast jaunt.

Finally, Max and Morgan will be jointly presenting at Northwestern University’s Phonatics workshop on March 9th. The presentation’s (likely) title will be “Longitudinal phonetic variation in a closed system.”

Chicagoans heading for Berkeley this month

A number of U.Chicagoans will be giving papers at BLS36 this month (program with abstracts here), on a variety of topics including prosody, syntax, historical phonology and discourse.

Max Bane will be talking on “A Combinatoric Model of Variation in the English Dative Alternation”.

Andrew Dombrowski (Slavic/Ling.) will present his paper, “When is orthography not just orthography? The case of the Novgorod birchbark letters”.

James Slotta (Anthro./Ling.) is slated to present on “Multifunctionality and inalienability: Propositional and discourse functions in Yopno possessive constructions”.

Morgan Sonderegger (Computer Science) will give a paper entitled “Testing for frequency and structural effects in an English stress shift”.

Great to see so many linguists representing so many departments. Good luck, all!

Bochnak heading for D.C. and beyond

Ryan Bochnak will be presenting a paper called “Interpreting a category of adjectives in Luganda” at the Georgetown Linguistics Society‘s annual meeting, February 12-14 in Washington, D.C.  His work is based in part on data collected from our Field Methods course last year.

In addition, his paper “Two sources of gradability within the verb phrase” was accepted for presentation at a special workshop on the Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates, to be held at the XX Colloquium on Generative Grammar, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in March.

Congrats, Ryan!