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UMass Amherst Linguists at the LSA

There are lots of UMass Amherst linguists at the upcoming LSA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, January 8-11, 2009).

Angelika Kratzer is giving one of the three plenary addresses. Her title is 'Straddling the border between linguistics and philosophy'. The talk is on Saturday, January 10, 12:45-1:45 pm.

In addition, we culled the following lists from the preliminary program (please let us know if we missed any current or former South College faculty, visitors, alums, etc.!):

Current South College Inhabitants

Seth Cable: Use of subordinate clauses as matrix utterances in the Pacific Northwest

Amy Rose Deal: Future and past in Nez Perce modals

Lisa Green: Resultative aspect and past tense in child African American English

Andrew McKenzie: Kiowa switch-reference and subject positions

Christopher Potts and Florian Schwarz: Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora

Aynat Rubinstein: Between modals and verbs: The dual role of must/need

Nathan Sanders (Williams) and Jaye Padgett: Exploring the role of production in predicting vowel inventories

Cherlon Ussery: Case at syntax, agreement at PF: Evidence from Icelandic

South College Alums

Michael Becker (Reed) and Lena Fainleib (Tel Aviv): Surface-based generalizations over lexical exceptions

Andries Coetzee (U Michigan) and Rigardt Pretorius (North-West University, South Africa): Tswana voiced plosives: Observing change-in-progress

Lisa Matthewson (UBC): Tense and modality in the Pacific Northwest

Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins): A semantics for extreme ignorance questions

Helen Stickney: Inter-speaker variation in the syntax of the partitive

Kristen Syrett (Rutgers), Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers): The representation and processing of measure phrases in four-year-olds

Matthew Wolf (Georgetown): Local ordering in phonology/morphology interleaving: Evidence for OT-CC