January 3, 2024

UofT @ LSA Meeting 2024

UofT will be well represented at this year's meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Several of our faculty and graduate students will be presenting their individual and joint work in New York City. 

Here is the list of presentations:

Talks

  • B. Elan Dresher (emeritus), Daniel Currie Hall, William Idsardi, Eric Raimy. “Uyghur disharmony without diacritics (or, phonological representations are phonological).” 
  • Christiana Moser (PhD Student), Bahar Tarakçı, Ercenur Ünal, Myrto Grigoroglou (Faculty). “Conceptual and language-specific syntactic influences on the description of instrument events in Turkish and English.” 

Posters

  • Mechelle Wu (MA Student). “The children of globalization: Lexical and morphophonological behaviors of ThirdCulture Kids.”
  • Christiana Moser (PhD Student). “Heterogeneous syntactic structure in Icelandic -st figure reflexives.
Additionally, several members of our community will be giving talks at SSILA and ADS, which are jointly held alongside the LSA meeting:

SSILA

  • Martin Renard (PhD Candidate). “Kanien’kéha Noun Incorporation: A Categorization and Excorporation Reanalysis.” 
  • Sonya Bird, Maida Percival (PhD Candidate), Randeana Peter  & Henny Yeung “Hul’q’umi’num’ listening quizzes: Blending research and pedagogy.”
  • Yanfei Lu (PhD Student). “Digital Tool for Revitalization of the Oneida Language: Verb Conjugator.”

ADS

  • Sali A. Tagliamonte (Faculty), Bridget L. Jankowski (Postdoc). “What's the BIG deal? It's HUGE! The adjectives of largeness in North American English.”  
  • Mechelle Wu (MA Student). “Is 'they wants' what they want? Contrasting ideologies about singular they and verb agreement on different media sources.”


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