LSA 2001 Annual Meeting Program

The authors and titles of papers to be presented in January are listed by day and session in alphabetical order by the author's last name.  A complete program including times and room assignments will be available in the Annual Meeting Handbook.

The meeting will begin with a parasessioin on reading and dialects at 4:00 PM on Thursday, 4 January, followed by invited plenary address at 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM.  The last sessions are scheduled to finish by 12:00 noon on Sunday, 7 January.

Thursday Afternoon, 4 January

Parasession:  Reading and Dialects
Room:  Constitution A
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM

The role of vernacular dialects in reading drew increased attention from educators and linguists during the national Ebonics debate.  Following on a Senate hearing on Ebonics and education, Congress funded a special project to investigate the relationship among African American language and culture, and literacy acquisition and development.  Organized by the LSA Language in the School Curriculum Committee and the Center for Applied Linguistics, this parasession will bring together linguists working on that project and others whose work places the project in social and historical context.

Discussion Leader:
Cecile McKee (Chair, LSA Language in the School Curriculum Committee)

Presenters:

• Walt Wolfram (incoming President of the LSA):  Dialect study & schools:  An introduction
• William Labov (Co-principal Investigator, African American Literacy & Culture Research Project):  Reading research in Philadelphia  & East Palo Alto
• Charles DeBose (Research Team, African American Literacy & Culture Research Project):  The Oakland research collaboration on Ebonics
• Geneva Smitherman (MI SU):  Resources on African American language for educators & others
• John Baugh (Research Team, African American Literacy & Culture Research Project):  Some implications for future research & development

Congressional staff, members of Congress, and representatives from organizations with an interest in this topic have been invited to join LSA members in attending this session.

Thursday Evening, 4 January

Invited Plenary Presentations
Room:  Constitution B

            7:00 - 8:00 PM            What should we expect from a phonological analysis? - Donca Steriade (UCLA)

            8:00 - 9:00 PM            Lessons in  3rd year grammar - Stephen Crain (U MD-College Park)

Friday Morning, 5 January

Lexical Semantics

• Mengistu Amberber (U New S Wales) - Quirky alternations of transitivity:  The case of ingestive predicates
• Benjamin K. Bergen (UC-Berkeley) & Nancy C. Chang (UC-Berkeley)  - Semantic agreement & construal
• Thomas Ernst (IN U)- Event structure, aspectual operators, & aspectual focus
• Chris Kennedy (Northwestern U) & Beth Levin (Stanford U) - Telicity corresponds to degree of change              
• Jason Patent (UC-Berkeley) - A unified account of essentially contested concepts
• William F. Weigel (UC-Berkeley)  - The linking of secondary objects in Yokuts languages
• Saundra K. Wright (Northwestern U) - A causative analysis of Ôinternally-causedÕ change of state verbs

Phonology: Contrast

• Jonathan Barnes (UC-Berkeley)  - The role of duration in the positional neutralization of vowel contrasts
• Daniel A. Dinnsen (IN U) & Kathleen OÕConnor (IN U)  - An optimality theoretic solution to the puzzle-puddle-pickle problem
• Susan G. Guion (U OR) - Changing vowel systems of Quichua-Spanish bilinguals
• Anna Lubowicz (U MA-Amherst) - Contrast preservation in Finnish
• Charles Reiss (Concordia U) - Quantification & identity references in phonological processes
• Bert Vaux (Harvard U) - Consonant epenthesis & hypercorrection
• Steven H. Weinberger (George Mason U) - Unifying epenthesis in L2 speech:  The phonetics & phonology of /h/
• Jie Zhang (UCLA)  - The contrast-specificity of positional prominence:  Evidence from diphthong distribution

Phonology: Lexicon, Levels

• Paula W. Baird (Tunxis CC)  - Elementary bonds predict the potential for metathetic changes
• Benjamin K. Bergen (UC-Berkeley) - Phonaesthemes in language processing
• Claire Bowern (Harvard U) - Vowel deletion in Bardi & root/affix faithfulness
• Eugene Buckley (U Penn) - Polish o-raising & phonological explanation
• Sonia Colina (AZ SU) - No word-final epenthesis in the synchronic phonology of Spanish
• Suzanne Curtin (USC)  - Liquid co-occurrence restrictions in Javanese
• Eungyeong Kang (Cornell U) - The noun-verb asymmetry in Korean inflectional morphology:  A prosodic analysis
• Orhan Orgun (UC-Davis) - Boston English [r] deletion & schwa insertion:  An enriched input analysis
• Meghan Sumner (SUNY-Stony Brook)  - Colloquial Slovak & rural Polish:  Do we need derivational levels?

Poster Session

• Christine Sungeun Cho (MIT)   - Prenominal/postnominal quantifiers in Korean
• Jeff Connor-Linton (Georgetown U) & Stephanie Stauffer (Georgetown U/CAL) -  SLA data online:  An invitation & discussion of potentials & challenges
• A. Eriks-Brophy (U Ottawa)  &  H. Goodluck (U Ottawa) - Advanced syntactic abilities in Down Syndrome individuals      
• Rachel Lee Hayes (U AZ) - Singleton-geminate stop contrasts & SLA:  Native speakers of English  learning Japanese
• Alexei Kochetov (U Toronto)  - Testing licensing by cue:  An experimental study of Russian  palatalization
• Dana McDaniel (U S ME) - Late acquisition of the a/an:  A problem for connectionism
• Madelaine Plauch - Predicting acoustic cues for stop place using machine learning techniques
• Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro (U Chicago) - Antipassive and noun incorporation in Karaj‡
• Elizabeth C. Zsiga (Georgetown U) - Articulatory coordination in a second language: Evidence from Russian & English

Syntax: East Asian Linguistics

• Elaine J. Francis (U Hong Kong) &  Stephen Matthews (U Hong Kong) - A multidimensional approach to the category verb in Cantonese
• Huiling Jin  (SUNY-Stony Brook) - The structure of psych-verbs:  Evidence from Chinese
• Richard K. Larson (SUNY-Stony Brook)  & Hiroko Yamakido (SUNY-Stony Brook)  - Time & location ellipsis in Japanese nominals
• Ju-Eun Lee (Harvard U) - Scrambling & scope interaction in Korean negation constructions
• Miok Pak (Georgetown U) - Unspecification of lexical items:  Empirical evidence from verbal nouns in Korean
• Hyeson Park (U SC)  - Topics in subordinate clauses in Korean
• Liejiong Xu (City U Hong Kong) - Association between focus & focus-sensitive operator
• Etsuyo Yuasa (OSU) - Discontinuous structure & relative clauses in Japanese
• Ke Zou (CSU-Hayward)  - Verb-noun compounding as head movement

Friday Afternoon, 5 January

Symposium:  What Every Educated Person Should Know about Language & Why
Room:  Constitution A
12:00 noon - 2:00 PM

Organizer:       Rebecca Wheeler (Christopher Newport U)

                        Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee

Participants:   Mark Aronoff (SUNY-Stony Brook)

                        Kirk Hazen (W VA U)

                        Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore C)

                        Robert Rodman (NC SU-Raleigh)

                        Jerrold Sadock (U Chicago)    

Phonetics: Coarticulation & Vowel Harmony

• Adrianne Cheek (U TX-Austin)                 ASL handshape variation:  Production & perception point to coarticulation
• Yiya Chen (SUNY-Stony Brook)              Identity effects in Selayarese vowel harmony
  Hasan Basri (Tadulako U)                   
• Taehong Cho (UCLA)                               Prosodically conditioned v-to-v coarticulatory resistance in English
• Colleen M. Fitzgerald (SUNY-Buffalo)      Vowel cooccurrence patterns in Buchan Scots English
• Sharon Inkelas (UC-Berkeley)                   Stress & vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Turkish
  Jonathan Barnes (UC-Berkeley)
  Jeffrey Good (UC-Berkeley)
  Darya Kavitskaya (UC-Berkeley)
  Orhan Orgun (UC-Davis)
  Ronald Sprouse (UC-Berkeley)
  Alan Yu (UC-Berkeley)                       
  
• Hyunsoon Kim (Sogang U)                        Korean palatalization as a coarticulatory effect
• Olanike Ola Orie (Tulane U)                      Two harmony theories & high vowels in comparative Yoruba
• Barbara Urogdi (SUNY-Stony Brook)      Gradient effects & individual variation in Hungarian vowel harmony

Psycholinguistics

• Ana C. Gouvea (U MD-College Park)      Working memory metrics & the processing of relative & conjoined clauses
  David Poeppel (U MD-College Park)  
• Jennifer Hay (U Canterbury)                      Lexical frequency in morphological decomposition:  The relative & the absolute
• Cecilia Kirk (U MA-Amherst)                   The effect of stress on the segmentation of continuous speech
• Alec Marantz (MIT)                                  MEG studies of lexical access:  Separating lexical access from decision
  Martin Hackl (MIT)
  Liina Pylkkänen (MIT)
• Colin Phillips (U MD-College Park)           Island constraints in parsing:  How the parser solves a look-ahead problem
  Kaia Wong (U DE)
• Amy J. Schafer (UCLA)                            Effects of focus on prosodic disambiguation of PP attachment
  Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)   
• Mieko Ueno (UC-San Diego)                    ERP study on the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Japanese scrambling
  Robert Kluender (UC-San Diego)
• Natasha Warner (Max Planck Inst)            Accentual phrase rises as a cue to word boundaries
  Takayuki Arai (Sophia U)        

Syntax-Semantics

• Barbara Abbott (MI SU)                           Donkey demonstratives
• Calixto Aguero-Bautista (MIT)                  Plurality & PL-readings
• Mark Arehart (U MI)                                Object case, aspect, & maximality in Finnish
• William D. Davies (U IA)                           On argument structure & extraction from NPs
• Stanley Dubinsky (U SC)         
• Peter Hallman (U N TX)                            The logical form of existential-there constructions
• Elsi Kaiser (U Penn)                                  Locality in anaphoric relations: A look at Finnish
• Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse U)                       Nonspecific partitives & the unreliability of specificity markings

LSA Business Meeting

Room:  Constitution A
             5:00 - 6:30 PM

['The rules for resolutions and motions' may be requested from the LSA Secretariat at:  lsa@lsadc.org.]

Friday Evening, 5 January

Invited Plenary Presentations

Room:  Constitution B

            7:00 - 8:00 PM            Clause structure - Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers U)

            8:00 - 9:00 PM            Reference & truth  - Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U)

Saturday Morning, 6 January

Language Acquisition

• Deborah L. Anderson (U Cambridge)                 The acquisition of tough movement in English
• Heike Behrens (Max Planck Inst)                        The acquisition of the German plural:  Rule- or schema based?
• Sook Whan Cho (Harvard U/Sogang U)             Obligatory optional subjects & subject-modal agreement in  child Korean
• Elena Gavruseva (U IA)                                      Semantic overgeneralization:  Expletive negation in child Russian & Spanish
  John Grinstead (U N IA)
• William Earl Griffin (U TX-Austin)                      Verb movement & cross-linguistic variation in the root infinitive stage
• Andrea Gualmini (U MD-College Park)              Downward entailment in child grammar
  Stephen Crain (U MD-College Park)   
• Caroline Jones (U MA-Amherst)                        Final devoicing in African American English child speech
• Tania S. Zamuner (U AZ)                                   /gel/ is better than /pvl/: Phonotatic probability in childrenÕs coda productions
  Lou Ann Gerken (U AZ)
  Michael Hammond (U AZ)

Phonetics: Perception

• Bridget Anderson (U MI)                          Phonetic variants are important in phonological processes
• Kirk Baker (U NC-Chapel Hill)                Amplitude alone can cue glottalization:  Cross-linguistic evidence from speech
  Chip Gerfen (U NC-Chapel Hill)
• Michael Cahill (SIL)                                  Why [kp]?
  John Hajek (U Melbourne)      
• Louis Goldstein (Yale U/Haskins Labs)      Competing recoverability factors & intergestural phasing in Russian stop clusters
  Alexei Kochetov (U Toronto)           
• Marcia Haag (U OK)                                Tone pattern & metrical effects in Cherokee nouns
  Keith Johnson (OSU)  
• James Harnsberger (IN U)                        Individual differences in cross-language speech perception
  David Pisoni (IN U)     
• William Labov (U Penn)                            Phonological vs phonetic explanations of a near-universal sound  change in  North
                                                                   American English
• James A. Ritchie (UC-Berkeley)                Perception-based monophthongization
• Siri G. Tuttle (UCLA)                                Acoustics of glottal stop in Jicarilla Apache
  Merton Sandoval (Jicarilla Apache Tribe)         

Pragmatics/Discourse

• Betty J. Birner (N IL U)                        Open propositions & epistemic would
  Jeffrey P. Kaplan (SDSU)
  Gregory Ward (Northwestern U)         
• Freddy Boswell (SIL)                           The genre of shouted speech in Cheke Holo
• Christine Gunlogson (UC-Santa Cruz)   Declarative questions
• Carol Lynn Moder (OK SU)                The distinction between noun & verb metaphors
• Scott Schwenter (OH SU)                    Discourse particles & contextual requirements           
• Gregory Ward (Northwestern U)          Preposing & relevance theory
• Nigel Ward (U Tokyo)                         Sound symbolism in uh-huh, uh-hn, mm, uh, & the like

Syntax

• Adolfo Ausin (U CT)                            Subject-verb inversion & the A-bar status of preverbal subjects in Spanish
  Luisa Mart’ (U CT)
• Emily M. Bender (UC-Berkeley)          AAVE copula absence is not phonological deletion
• Andreas Kathol (UC-Berkeley)            The syntax of verbal alternations in Haka-Chin/Lai
  Kenneth VanBik (UC-Berkeley)        
• Seth Kulick (U Penn)                            Locality domains & reduced constructions
• Karine Megerdoomian (USC)               The structure of Armenian causatives
• John Moore (UC-San Diego)               Evidence for silent expletives in Russian
  David M. Perlmutter (UC-San Diego)
• David A. Peterson (Max Planck Inst)    Theme extraction in Bantu applicatives:  Against an economy account
• Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Penn SU)  Locative inversion in minimalist terms
• Christina Villafa–a (Georgetown U)       Subject prominence in English middles

Saturday Afternoon, 6 January

Symposium:  The Breadth & Diversity of Language & Gender Research
Room:  Constitution A
            12:00 noon - 2:00 PM

Organizers:     Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics members:

                        Scott Kiesling (U Pittsburgh)

                        Marianna Di Paolo (U UT)

                        Norma Mendoza-Denton (U AZ)

                        Carlota S. Smith (U TX-Austin)

• Jeri J. Jaeger (U of Buffalo):  Sex difference in recovery from aphasia
• Kyoung-Ja Lee (Simon Fraser U):  Gender effect on asymmetry variation in labial configuration
• Robin Lakoff (U CA-Berkeley): The Representation of Political Women in Media
• Catherine Hicks Kennard (U AZ):  Female drill instructors & the negotiation of power through pronouns

Historical Linguistics

• Adam Albright (UCLA)                       Modeling the Latin ÔhonorÕ analogy with a computational learner
• Raul Aranovich (U TX-San Antonio)   The semantics of auxiliary selection in the history of Spanish
• Michel DeGraff (MIT)                         Against creole genesis as Ôabnormal transmissionÕ
• Andrew Garrett (UC-Berkeley)           An alleged Old English vowel merger:  New evidence from Wuthering Heights
• Richard D. Janda (OH SU)                  Sound-change:  Phonetics, phonology, sociology, or all of the above?
  Brian D. Joseph (OH SU)        
• Masato Kobayashi (U Penn)                BartholomaeÕs Law & root-suffix asymmetry in Sanskrit
• Larry LaFond (U SC)                         Understanding diachronic changes from null to overt pronouns in French
• Johanna Nichols (UC-Berkeley)          Rapid drastic type shift from dependent marking to head marking

Phonology: Moraic Effects

• Travis Bradley (Penn SU)                         Phonetics, phonology, & obstruent voicing in external Sandhi
• Rachel Channon (U MD)                          The protracted inceptive verb inflection & phonological representations in
                                                                  American Sign Language
• Abigail C. Cohn (Cornell U)                      Phonological patterns & phonetic manifestations of moraic structure in English
• Katherine Crosswhite (U Rochester)         Syllabicity & moraicity in Dihovo Macedonian
• Michelle L. Gregory (U CO)                     The prosodic characteristics of quotations & the introduction of quotations
  Wouter Jansen (U Groningen)  
  Jason M. Brenier (SUNY-Stony Brook)          
• Sharon Hargus (U WA)                            Initial consonant cluster moraicity in Yakima Sahaptin
• Sean Q. Hendricks (U AZ)                       Bare-consonant reduplication in Marshallese consonant doubling
• Darya Kavitskaya (UC-Berkeley)             Are glottal stops really stops? The evidence from compensatory lengthening
• Alicia Muñoz-Sánchez (UC-San Diego)    Compensatory & functional strategies: 
                                                                   How to cope with /s/ elision in Western Andalusian Spanish

Syntax

• Benjamin Bruening (MIT)                             Configurational dependencies in a polysynthetic language
• Barbara Citko (SUNY-Stony Brook)           Against a vehicle change account of reconstruction asymmetries in relative clauses
• Jason D. Duncan (Penn SU)                         Constituency & phrase structure in Spanish wh- relative clauses
• Nigel Fabb (U Strathclyde)                           The relation between tense & aspect in Central Sudanic
• Vivian Lin (MIT)                                          The coordinate structure constraint (csc) & a-movement
• Francisco Ordóñez (U IL-Urbana)             Clitic combinations in the syntax:  Evidence from Judeo Spanish,
                                                                      Dominican Spanish & Baix Ebre Catalan
• Jay I. Rifkin (MIT)                                        Tough-movement really is movement
• Maurice Williams (SUNY-Stony Brook)       On nominal extraposition constructions
• Ed Zoerner (CSU-Dominguez Hills)              Moving away from deletion
• Brian Agbayani (CSU-Dominguez Hills)           

Presidential Address

Room:  Constitution B
            5:00 - 6:30 PM

David Perlmutter (UC-San Diego):  Language-internal & cross-linguistic bases of explanation

Saturday Evening, 6 January

Symposium:  Recent Advances in Research on African American English
Room:  Independence F-I
            7:00 - 9:00 PM

Organizer:        Lisa Green (U TX-Austin)
Chair:               Geneva Smitherman (MI SU)
Discussant:      John Rickford (Stanford U)

• Charles DeBose (CSU-Hayward):  Patterns of complementation
• Lisa Green (U TX-Austin):  Patterns-based approaches & descriptive analysis
• Arthur K. Spears (City C-CUNY):  Standard African-American English:  Race, grammar, & ideology

Workshop:  Probability Theory in Linguistics
Room:  Independence B-E
            7:00 - 10:00 PM

Organizers:     Rens Bod (U Leeds/U Amsterdam)

                        Jennifer Hay (U Canterbury, New Zealand)

                        Stefanie Jannedy (Lucent Technol/Bell Labs)

• Rens Bod (U Leeds/U Amsterdam):  Introduction to probability theory in linguistics
• Michael Brent (WA U):  Probabilistic approaches to acquisition
• Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern U):  Probabilistic approaches to phonology
• Harald Baayen (U Nijmegen/Max Planck Inst Psycholing):  Probabilistic approaches to morphology
• Christopher Manning (Stanford U):  Probabilistic approaches to syntax

Morphology

• Ellen Contini-Morava (U VA)              The difference between zero & nothing:  Swahili noun class prefixes 5 & 9/10
• Jingqi Fu (St. MaryÕs C)                     The headedness in compounds:  A cross-linguistic distribution of the RHR &
                                                              the reanalysis
• Larry M. Hyman (UC-Berkeley)           Mirror principle & templatic suffix ordering in Bantu
• Marshall Lewis                                    Assimilatory forces in the breakdown of the Ago noun class system
• Reiko Shimamura (Tsuda C)                The A-N expression within the compound & the phrase/word distinction

Phonology

• John D. Alderete (Swarthmore C)         The interaction between length & tone in Tahltan
• Makiko Asano (Harvard U)                  The optionality of the quotative particle -to in Japanese mimetics:  Constraints vs rules
• Nigel Fabb (U Strathclyde)                   The delimitation of feet in metrical verse
  Morris Halle (MIT)      
• Paul D. Fallon (Howard U)                   Ejective phonology & factorial typology
• K. David Harrison (U Penn)                 Epenthesis & the emergence of ÔreserveÕ constraints
• Laura Wilbur McGarrity (IN U)            On the interaction of stress & epenthesis in Yimas
• Kenneth S. Olson (U Chicago/SIL)       Can [sonorant] spread?
• Joe Pater (U MA-Amherst)                  Assimilation triggers metathesis in Balantak

Sunday Morning, 7 January

Symposium:  How autonomous is grammar?
Room:  Lafayette/Farragut
            9:00 - 11:00 AM

Organizer:         Ralph Fasold (Georgetown U)

• Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins U):  Computing anaphoric relations
• Frederick J. Newmeyer (U WA):  The compatibility of autonomous syntax & functional explanation
• Karen van Hoek (U MI):  Language structure from a cognitive perspective
• Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (U of Buffalo):  Some remarks on the nature of universal grammar

Symposium:  Immediate vs delayed contact-induced language change in typologically similar & dissimilar languages
Room:  McPherson/Franklin
            9:00 - 11: 30 AM

Organizers:     J. Clancy Clements (IN U)

                        James Gair (Cornell U)

Participants:   Jennifer Austin (Williams C)

                        J. Clancy Clements (IN U)

                        James Gair (Cornell U)

                        Ian Smith (York U)

                        Sarah Thomason (U MI)          

Symposium/Workshop:  The Role of Similarity in Phonology
Room:  International B-E
            9:00 AM - 12:00 noon

Organizers:       Donca Steriade (UCLA)

                        Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)

• Michael Broe (OH SU):  Entropic similarity & the laterality of oppositions
• Ellen Broselow (U WA):  Phoneme substitution across languages
• Marie-Héléne Côté (U WI-Madison):  Syntagmatic contrast & consonant deletion
• Heidi Fleischhacker (UCLA):  Experimental results on relative similarity
• Stefan Frisch (U MI):  Similarity, correspondence, & distance in (phonological) time & space
• Darlene LaCharitŽ (Laval U) & Carole Paradis (Laval U):  Phonologically determined similarity in loanword adaptation

Endangered Languages

• Michael Cahill (SIL)                                             The unusual tone system of Awad Bing
• Lise Dobrin (U VA)                                              The morphological status of Arapesh plurals
• Donna B. Gerdts (Simon Fraser U)                       The origin of the Halkomelem applicative suffix
• Matthew Gordon (UC-Santa Barbara)                  Nuclear pitch accent placement in Chickasaw
  Ian Maddieson (UC-Berkeley)
• Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Inst)                Managing phonetic complexity: Double articulations & nasality in Yel” Dnye
• Fiona McLaughlin (U KS)                                    Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin
• Barbara A. Meek (U AZ/U MI)                           The direct object prefix ye- as a transitive marker in Kaska
  Meghan OÕDonnell (U AZ)    
• Ronald P. Schaefer (S IL U-Edwardsville)            Integrating EmaiÕs be constructions
• Alan C. Yu (UC-Berkeley)                                   Verb plurality in Chechen

Language Acquisition

• M. Eleanor Culley (U VA)                        Western Apache language ideologies:  Perspectives on language loss & maintenance
• Steven Gross (U SC)                               Not all functional morphemes are created equal: Evidence from first language attrition
• Luisa Meroni (U MD-College Park)         Conversational implicatures & computational complexity in child language
  Andrea Gualmini (U MD-College Park)
  Stephen Crain (U MD-College Park)
• Julien Musolino (U Penn/IRCS)                When children are more logical than adults
  Jeffrey Lidz (Northwestern U)  
• Acrisio Pires (U MD-College Park)          Minimalism & learnability:  Delimiting degree-0 domains with phases
• Bonnie D. Schwartz (U Durham)              Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition?  A reply to Meisel
  Rex A. Sprouse (IN U)                                      
• Margaret Thomas (Boston C)                   Development of the concept of "the poverty of the stimulus"           
• Inna Vinnitskaya (MIT)                            Grammatical mapping in the acquisition of a third language
  Claire Foley (Morehead SU)
  Suzanne Flynn (MIT)   

Sociolinguistics

• Bridget Anderson (U MI)                         Towards an integrated account of internal & external constraints on language change
  Lesley Milroy (U MI)
• Elizabeth Dayton (U PR-Mayaguez)         The use of AAVE be2-ing to convey stereotypes
• Steve Hartman Keiser (OH SU)               Demystifying drift:  Explaining linguistic change across speech islands
• Walt Wolfram (NC SU)                           Constructing vernacular dialect norms:  Localized & supra-regional cases
• Malcah Yaeger-Dror (U AZ)                   Situational variation in prosodic strategies:  ItÕs not as simple as you think
  Sharon Deckert (U AZ)
  Lauren Hall-Lew (U AZ)         
• Qing Zhang (Stanford U)                          The deterritorialization of Standard Mandarin:  Forging a cosmopolitan identity VP Structure
• Tonia Bleam (IRCS/U Penn)                    Interpretive differences in direct vs indirect object clitic-doubling
• Charles Jones (George Mason U)            VP projection of two complements
• Elsi Kaiser (U Penn)                                Scrambling in Japanese & Finnish ditransitive constructions
  Kimiko Nakanishi (U Penn)     
• Hooi Ling Soh (U MN)                           VP structure & scope: Evidence from Chinese
• Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Penn SU)      Case licensing in English double object constructions
  Jason Duncan (Penn SU)         

updated November 2, 2000