LSA WINTER MEETING

Meanwhile, much of the department decamped to Portland, Oregon for the 2015 Winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America between Thursday January 8th and Sunday January 11th. There, Sandy Chung and Matt Wagers gave a joint presentation (with their collaborator Manuel F. Borja of Saipan) on Filler-gap order and online licensing of grammatical relations: evidence from Chamorro. Maziar Toosarvandani gave a presentation to the the annual meeting of SSILA (the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas), a sister society of the LSA whose meeting coincides with the Winter Meeting. Maziar’s talk was on The semantics of durative gemination in Northern Paiute. Bern Samko presented on The emphatic implicature of English verb-phrase preposing, Nate Arnett presented a poster on Interference Effects in Subject-Verb Attachment, while Anna Greenwood had the honor of presenting one of the final papers of the meeting; Anna’s talk was on Substance bias in stress pattern learning. There were in addition many Santa Cruz alumni at the Meeting, and 15 of the presentations in Portland reported on research carried out by graduate or undergraduate alums of the UCSC program.