LSA et al. 2020

The Linguistic Society of American's 94th Annual Meeting is taking place in New Orleans from January 2nd through 5th. Alongside it are the annual meetings of a number of 'sister societies'. Current U of T linguists and alumni taking part are:

Linguistic Society of America:

• Karlien Franco (postdoc) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "Lexicalization in grammatical change? The simple past/present perfect alternation in Canadian English."
• Keren Rice (faculty) is both a discussant and a speaker on a symposium about language documentation: "A brief introduction to DEL: Reflections on the intellectual merit of language documentation."
• Dan Milway (Ph.D. 2019): "A workspace-based analysis of adjuncts."
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) with Alicia Parrish (New York University): "Acquisition of quantity-related inferences in 4- and 5-year-olds."
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) also has a poster with Vishal Sunil Arvindam (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Maxime Tulling (New York University): "Do 2-year-olds understand epistemic maybe? Maybe!"
• Bettina Spreng (Ph.D. 2012, now at the University of Saskatchewan) has a poster: "v-Asp Feature Inheritance: Some insights from Inuktitut and Swabian (Alemannic)."
• Fulang Cater Chen (MA 2017, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Split partitivity in Mandarin: A diagnostic for argument-gap dependencies."
• Michelle Yuan (MA 2013, now at the University of California, San Diego): "Deriving ergativity from object shift across Eskimo-Aleut."
• Michelle Yuan (MA 2013, now at the University of California, San Diego) also has a talk with Ksenia Ershova (Stanford University): "Dependent case in syntactically ergative languages: Evidence from Inuit and West Circassian."
• Nicholas Rolle (MA 2010, now at Princeton University) with Emily Clem (University of California, San Diego) and Virginia Dawson (University of California, Berkeley): "Altruistic inversion and doubling in Tiwa morphology."
• Neil Banerjee (BA 2016, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Ellipsis as Obliteration: Evidence from Bengali negative allomorphy."
• Recent faculty member Nicholas LaCara: "Synthetic compounding in Distributed Morphology with phrasal movement."

American Dialect Society:

• Karlien Franco (postdoc) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "How to gain a new guy in 10 decades: A study of lexical variation in Ontario dialects."
• Derek Denis (faculty), Chantel Briana Campbell (BA), Eloisa Cervantes (BA), Keturah Mainye (BA), Michelle Sun (BA), Timothy Gadanidis (Ph.D.) and Jeanne F. Nicole Dingle (University of British Columbia): "Ideologies and social meanings around Multicultural Toronto English."
• Lauren Bigelow (Ph.D.) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): "Where have all the articles gone? Bare nominals in Marmora and Lake, Ontario."
• Emily Blamire (Ph.D.) and Marisa Brook (faculty): "Very quick reversal: Rapid real-time change in Canadian English intensifiers."
• Naomi Nagy (faculty) and James Walker (BA 1989, now at La Trobe University) are part of a talk with Michol Hoffman (York University) and Ronald Beline Mendes (University of São Paulo): "Sounds of the city: Perceptions of ethnically marked speech in Toronto."
• Timothy Gadanidis (Ph.D.): "Uh, that’s a little rude: Implicit judgments of um and uh in instant messaging."
• Nicole Rosen (Ph.D. 2007, now at the University of Manitoba) has a poster with Sky Onosson (University of Manitoba): "Ethnolinguistic vowel differentiation in Manitoba."
• Alexandra D'Arcy (Ph.D. 2005, now at the University of Victoria) has a poster: "On being a caregiver and a community member in the midst of language change."

Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americans (SSILA):

• Michael Barrie (Ph.D. 2006, now at Sogang University): "The prosody of anger and surprise in Cayuga."
• Patricia A. Shaw (Ph.D. 1976, now at the University of British Columbia) and Severn Cullis-Suzuki (University of British Columbia): "Xaayda kil intonation patterns: Empowering language learners to 'sing' like their elders."
• Shay Hucklebridge (MA 2016, now at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Bare nouns and negation in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì relative clauses."
• Paulina Lyskawa (MA 2015, now at the University of Maryland) with Christopher Baron (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) and Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland): "Narcissistic allomorphy in Santiago Tz'utujil."

American Name Society:

• Kate Brennan (Ph.D., Centre for Comparative Literature): "Semantic relations and personal names in literature: Naming as authority."

North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS):

• Alexandra D'Arcy (Ph.D. 2005, now at the University of Victoria) is part of a panel with Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): "Historical sociolinguistics: Lineage and leading edge."

Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL):

• Ella Rabinovich (postdoc, Department of Computer Science) is part of a poster with Maria Ryskina (Carnegie Mellon University), Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (University of California, San Diego), David Mortensen (Carnegie Mellon University), and Yulia Tsvetkov (Carnegie Mellon University): "Where new words are born: Distributional semantic analysis of neologisms and their semantic neighbourhoods."

Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics:

• James Walker (BA 1989, now at La Trobe University): "Complements of the Eastern Caribbean."