LSA et al. 2021

The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America is taking place online from January 7 through 10. The custom for the on-site conferences is for a number of smaller 'sister societies' to meet concurrently. However, given extenuating circumstances, many of the 'sister societies' this year are either meeting at other times or not meeting at all. The exceptions are the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS), and the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS).

Linguistic Society of America

• Naomi Nagy (faculty), Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.), and Vidhya Elango (MA) are part of a panel discussion with Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (University of Rochester): "Sociolinguistic research in the time of COVID: Methods, ethics, theory."
• Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty), Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.), and Alison Chasteen (faculty, Department of Psychology) are giving a talk: "Lifespan change and linguistic innovation: The quotative system as we age."
• Marisa Brook (faculty) and Mirva Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) are giving a talk: "Substrate effects and diachrony: Back vowels during long-term language shift in a Finnish-Canadian enclave."
• Jeremy Needle (postdoc), Simon Todd (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jeanette King (University of Canterbury), and Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury) have a presentation: "Overt speaker knowledge of reduplication patterns in te reo Māori."
• Jeremy Needle (postdoc) is part of a second talk with Simon Todd (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jeanette King (University of Canterbury), and Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury): "Phonological influences on lexicalized compound formation in Māori."
• Breanna Pratley (MA 2020) and Phil Monahan (faculty) have a poster: "Can English idioms undergo the dative alternation? A priming investigation."
• Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.) and Justin R. Leung (MA) have a poster with Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo (University of British Columbia): "Two types of rhetorical questions: Evidence from Cantonese prosody."
• Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.) also has a solo poster: "Not all tag questions are alike: The case of source tags."
• Nadia Takhtaganova (Ph.D.) has a poster: "The history and internal structure of French honorifics."
• Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.) is part of a panel called "VariAsian: Contact and change in Asian North American speech communities," with Andrew Cheng (University of California, Irvine), Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (University of Michigan), and Lauretta Cheng (University of Michigan).
• Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese) has a poster: "The problem with [proper]: Reanalyzing morphosyntactic regularization."
• Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese) is also part of a panel, "Student resources during a pandemic: Linguistic Society of America student ambassadors share their experiences and insight," with Lillian Jones (University of California, Davis) and John Powell (University of Arizona).
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) has a talk with Maxime Tulling (New York University): "The past is fake: Child comprehension of counterfactual wishes and conditionals."
• Paulina Lyskawa (MA 2015, now at the University of Maryland) and Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland) have a talk: "Sibilant harmony in Santiago Tz'utujil."
• Nicholas Rolle (MA 2010, now at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) has a talk with Laura Kalin (Princeton University): "Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion versus position."
• Neil Banerjee (BA 2016, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Two ways to form a portmanteau: Evidence from ellipsis."
• Becky Tollan (Ph.D. 2019, now at the University of Delaware) is part of a poster presentation with Juyeon Cho (University of Delaware): "The role of case in the subject advantage: Korean double nominative constructions."
• Michael Barrie (Ph.D. 2006, now at Sogang University) has a poster with Jun Gu Kang (Sogang University): "Prosody and bare nouns in Mongolian."
• Recent faculty member Aleksei Nazarov (Utrecht University) has a poster: "Learning restrictive analyses of Canadian Raising in OT using exceptionality diacritics."

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 

• Paulina Lyskawa (MA 2015, now at the University of Maryland) and Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland): "Vowel harmony in Santiago Tz'utujil (Mayan)."

North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

• Jeremy Needle (postdoc) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "From 'buddy' to 'dude' to 'bro': Vocative change in Ontario English."