SANTA CRUZ LINGUISTS AT THE LSA MEETING IN PORTLAND

The program for the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (in Portland, Oregon, January 8-11, 2015) was recently announced. Among those presenting at the meeting are faculty members Sandy Chung and Matt Wagers (Filler-gap order and online licensing of grammatical relations: evidence from Chamorro, with Manuel F. Borja), along with graduate students Nate Arnett (Interference effects in subject-verb attachment: Case, position, and clause-finiteness), Anna Greenwood(Substance bias in stress pattern learning), and Bern Samko (The emphatic implicature of English verb-phrase preposing.

Also presenting at the meeting are many alumni of the graduate program, including Matt Tucker (NYU), Chris Potts (Stanford University), Rachel Walker (University of Southern California), Andy Wedel (University of Arizona), and Adam Ussishkin(University of Arizona). Among undergraduate alumni presenting are Lauren Winans (UCLA), Aaron White (University of Maryland), Joseph King (New York University), and Eric Bakovic (University of California, San Diego). Former visiting graduate student Filippa Lindahl (University of Göteborg) is also on the program.