Eleven members of our department (five graduate students, one undergraduate student, and five faculty members) will be presenting five talks and three posters at the next Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 2-5, 2020. In alphabetical order (G: graduate student; U: undergraduate student; F: UC San Diego faculty):
- Emily Clem (F), Nicholas Rolle & Virginia Dawson
Altruistic inversion and doubling in Tiwa morphology (talk) - José Armando Fernández Guerrero (G)
¡Cómo corre! The Flexibility of Wh-Exclamatives (poster)
- Duk-Ho Jung (G) & Grant Goodall (F)
A wh-dependency that does not obey islands: Remnants and correlates in backward sprouting (poster) - Till Poppels (G) & Andrew Kehler (F)
Inferential Ellipsis Resolution: Sluicing, Nominal Antecedents, and the Question Under Discussion (talk) - Nina Feygl Semushina (G), Azura Fairchild (U) & Rachel Mayberry (F)
Counting with Fingers Symbolically: Basic Numerals Across Sign Languages (poster)
- Joshua Wampler (G)
Do thus: An investigation into event reference (talk) - Michelle Yuan (F)
Deriving ergativity from object shift across Eskimo-Aleut (talk) - Michelle Yuan (F) & Ksenia Ershova
Dependent case in syntactically ergative languages: Evidence from Inuit and West Circassian (talk)