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It’s here!: CLS 45 call for papers

From CLS 45:

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April 16-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago. 

The theme of this year’s conference is “Locality in Language.” The conference will include a general session as well as a parasession devoted to the theme.

Main Session

Invited Speakers:

  • Paul Boersma,University of Amsterdam
  • Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago
  • Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware

We welcome papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks as well as from related cross-disciplinary areas. Papers relating to the theme will be given preference.

Parasession: Locality in Language

Invited Speakers:

  • Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
  • Ivan Sag, Stanford University
  • Rachel Walker, University of Southern California

The panels in this parasession will explore issues of locality in various areas of linguistics, including but not limited to phonology, syntax, semantics, and processing.Presentation Format: Each talk will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers will be published in the CLS Proceedings.

For submission guidelines, please see the CLS abstract info page for details. See you in April!

LSA and SSILA Acceptances

Chicago will be well-represented at the upcoming Jaunary LSA and SSILA in San Francisco! Congratulations to the following students and faculty for their acceptances!

LSA

  • Peter Alrenga: Stipulated vs. Asserted Anaphora.
  • Adam Baker: Phonology as Compression: Capturing Vowel Harmony.
  • Tommy Grano: Predicating gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: Should we posit POS?
  • April Grotberg: The prosody of overt case marking in Coptic. (Poster)
  • James Kirby: Comparative-induced event measure relations.
  • James Kirby and Alan Yu: Morphological paradigm effects on vowel articulation.
  • Stefanie Kuzmack:  Origin and its connotations: A cline of semantic degrammaticalization.
  • Jason Merchant and Jerry Sadock: Case, agreement, and null arguments in Aleut.
  • Nassira Nicola: DIRE N’IMPORTE-Q: Evidence for polarity in Quebec Sign Language.
  • Alice Lemieux: Evidence from Hindi for Proximity as a Consistent Temporal Relation. (Poster)
  • Susan Rizzo: Harmonic Grammar and Grandfather Effects: A New Approach to an Old Problem. (Poster)
  • Eleni Staraki: Turkish Loanwords in Greek: A New Framework of Loanword Theory. (Poster)
  • Morgan Sondereger: Rhyme graphs, sound change, and perceptual similarity.
  • Morgan Sondereger and Alan Yu: A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation.
  • John Sylak (BA, 2008):  Lak Reduplication: Neither Phonological Nor Morphological Fixed Segmentism.

SSILA

  • Juan Bueno-Holle: Lexical tone in Isthmus Zapotec.
  • Amy Dahlstrom: Second’ objects with no first object:  a typology of Meskwaki objects.

Jerry Sadock will also be giving one of a small series of talks celebrating the career of Ellen Prince, present president of the LSA, who will not be able to attend the conference for reasons of health.