Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 89th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations to all!
- Asia Pietraszko “Discourse configurationality and agreement in Ndebele”
- Emily Hanink “The `Missing-P’ Phenomenon in German: Free Relatives are Super Light-headed”
- Alan Yu, Daniel Chen, Katie Franich, Yosh Halberstam, Jacob Phillips, & Betsy Pillion “The peril of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court”
- Stephen Matthews & Jackson Lee “The representation of Cantonese tone: evidence from music”
- Julian Grove “Kinds and Monotonicity”
- Gallagher Flinn “Model Fit for Cross-linguistic Asymmetries in NP-Modifier Order”
- Peter Klecha (PhD ‘14) & Martina Martinovic “Exhaustive Identification is Predication”
- Natasha Abner, Kensy Cooperrider, & Susan Goldin-Meadow “Creating Meaning in the Palm of Your Hand”
- Lilia Rissman & Susan Goldin-Meadow “Morphological & lexical markers of causation in the gestures of a child homesigner”
- Diane Rak “Phonological relations affecting phonetic productions in English-Spanish code-switching”
- Dorothea Hoffmann “Serialization in complex predicates in MalakMalak”
- Andrea Beltrama “A “totally awesome” trajectory. Modeling the emergence of speaker-oriented meaning.”
- Mike Phạm & Jackson Lee “Combining successor and predecessor frequencies to model truncation in Brazilian Portuguese”
- Natasha Abner, Savithry Namboodiripad, Elizabet Spaepen, & Susan Goldin-Meadow “Morphology in Child Homesign: Evidence from Number Marking”
Some Chicago linguists will also participate in the sister society meetings, which meet concurrently with the LSA:
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
- Dorothea Hoffmann “Asymmetrical serial verb constructions in Kriol of Northern Australia”
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Lenore Grenoble & Hilary Head McMahan “Navigating the Arctic landscape: The language of place in Kalaallisut”
- Amy Dahlstrom “Obviation and information structure in Meskwaki”
- Cherry Meyer “Word order and information structure in Ojibwe”
- Lenore Grenoble: Panel Chair for Otomanguean, Chocó, and Mayan
- Adam Singerman “Negation as nominal-to-nominal derivation in Tupari”
- Carlos Cisneros “Two analyses of floating numerals in Guaymí”
