UMN Linguistics at LSA 2018
UMN Linguistics will be strongly represented at the 2018 Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Salt Lake City, UT. Congratulations to all of our faculty and students:
- Maria Heath: Orthography in Social Media: Pragmatic and Prosodic Interpretations of Caps Lock
- Jason Overfelt: Stripping in Temporal Adverbial Constructions (poster)
- Brian Reese and Hooi Ling Soh: Parenthetical "I'm telling you" as a Marker of Privative Evidence
- Hooi Ling Soh: Mandarin Chinese Sentence Final de as a Marker of Privative Evidence
- Borui Zhang and Dustin Chacón: Embedding, Covert Movement, and Intervention in Kathmandu Newari
and to all of our alumni:
- Jon Coltz: Conceptual and contextual blending in negative evaluations during focus groups on food
- Colin Davis [MIT]: Cyclic Linearization Constrains Intermediate Stranding
- Colette Feehan [University of Indiana] (with Jacob Heredos, J. Ryan Sullivant, and Hilaria Cruz): Tone in Santos Reyes Nopala Chatino (poster)
- Alex Jaker [University of Alaska Fairbanks]: Systematic Underspecification and Derived Environment Effects Tetsot'ine (Yellowknife) (poster)
- Alex Jaker [University of Alaska Fairbanks] (with Paul Kiparsky): Level Ordering and Opacity in Tetsot'ine (Yellowknife): a Stratal OT account (poster)
- Hannah Sande [Georgetown University]: A Unified Explanation of Two Vowel Alternations in Guébie (Kru) (poster)
- Carolyn Spadine [MIT]: Overt Realizations of Syntactic Perspective: Evidence from Tigrinya
More information on LSA 2018 can be found here.
