LSA 2021

A large group of our linguists presented their work at LSA 2021! A bevy of our faculty, alumni, and students shared their work. Details about their presentations are given below.

Donka Farkas gave a wonderful plenary talk on Canonical and Non-Canonical Speech Acts.

There was a special Syntax-Prosody in OT event led by the SPOT group (Jenny Bellik, Nick Kalivoda, Nick Van Handel, Richard Bibbs, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester).

Tom Roberts & Kelsey Sasaki:  Which predicates embed exclamatives and why?

Max Kaplan: On-line processing of completion in event descriptions with a visual world paradigm

Dan Brodkin & Vishal Sunil Arvindam: Adjacency Requirements in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec

Tom Roberts:  Argument saturation and intransitive modification: The double life of embedded clauses

Ryan Bennett &  Robert Henderson(alumnus): Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko

Mark Norris (alumnus): Concord begets concord: A Bayesian model of nominal concord typology

You can find a blurb about the SPOT session and links to materials from it here.

Congratulations to all who presented!