UCSC AT THE LSA

UCSC linguists will deliver at least five papers at the 82nd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held January 3-6, 2008, at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Vera Gribanova will present a paper on “The (Post-)Syntax of Russian Verbal Prefixes”. Jorge Hankamer will be presenting a paper titled “Ad-phrasal Affixes and Suspended Affixation”. (This is the same paper he will present in the Syntax Circle on November 20, with the title “Suspended Affixation”.) Ruth Kramer will present a paper on “Phase Impenetrability at PF and Amharic Definite Marking.” David Teeple will give a paper on “Avoiding Strong-Position Neutralization”. Sandy Chung will give a plenary session lecture titled “How Much Can Understudied Languages Really Tell Us About How Language Works?” An extraordinarily large number of LSA abstracts were submitted this year, and the selection process was far more rigorous than in previous years. If you’re presenting a paper but we don’t yet have your information, let us know!