Many McGill affiliates spent the first part of the new year in Portland, Oregon for the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America.
Papers:
- Daniel Goodhue & Michael Wagner: The effect of the contradiction contour on the interpretation of ambiguous yes-no responses
- Michael Hamilton: Ditransitives and ”possessor raising” in Mi’gmaq
- Michael Hamilton & Brandon Fry: Algonquian Long-Distance Agreement: a syntactic account
Posters:
- Michael Erlewine: On the position of focus adverbs
- Michael Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk: Voice morphology as extraction marking
- Hadas Kotek: A new compositional semantics for wh-questions
Tutorials:
- Alan Bale, Jessica Coon, Joel Dunham, Gyle Gorman, Michael Wagner: LingSync and ProsodyLab-Aligner: Tools for Linguistic Fieldwork and Experimentation
Also in concurrent meetings…
American Dialect Society:
- Charles Boberg: World War I and the consolidation of Canadian English
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas:
- Elizabeth Carolan – An exploration of tense in Chuj
- Elizabeth Carolan & Jessica Coon – Negation in Chuj progressives
- Lauren Eby Clemens & Jessica Coon – Deriving Mayan V1: A fresh look at Chol
- Michael Erlewine – Restructuring and Agent Focus in Kaqchikel
The full LSA program can be found here: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/node/3901/schedule.