SULA 9 IS HERE

This weekend (May 6-8) brings the 9th Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) conference to UCSC. The three-day event will feature talks and posters by speakers from around the world on languages ranging from Algonquian to Yucatec. The sessions cover degrees, evidentiality, indexicality, mirativity, modals, nominal semantics, obviation, plurality, quantification, and tense.

The invited speakers include UCSC alumna Line Mikkelsen (PhD, 2004; Berkeley), who will speak on Friday (May 6) about “Contrastive talk in Karuk.” The other invited speakers are Lisa Matthewson (UBC), Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe), Sarah Murray (Cornell), and Katie Sardinha (Berkeley). The program also features talks by alumni Scott AnderBois (PhD, 2011; Brown) and Robert Henderson (PhD 2012; Arizona).

The full program for SULA 9 can be found here. Registration is free, and all talks will take place in Humanities 1 (Room 210). There will be a conference dinner on Saturday evening (7:30-9:00) at the Cowell Provost House.