MEETING HANDBOOK LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES SOCIETY FOR PIDGIN AND CREOLE LINGUISTICS SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS SHERATON BOSTON HOTEL BOSTON, MA 8-11 JANUARY 2004 Introductory Note The LSA Secretariat has prepared this Meeting Handbook to serve as the official program for the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). In addition, this handbook is the official program for the Annual Meetings of the American Dialect Society (ADS), the American Name Society (ANS), the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). We gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by the LSA Program Committee: (William Idsardi, Chair; Diane Brentari; Peter Culicover; Toshiyuki Ogihara; Margaret Speas; Rosalind Thornton; Lindsay Whaley; and Draga Zec) and the help of the members who served as consultants to the Program Committee. We are also grateful to Marlyse Baptista (SPCL), David Boe (NAAHoLS), Edwin Lawson (ANS), Allan Metcalf (ADS), and Victor Golla (SSILA) for their cooperation. We appreciate the help given by the Boston Local Arrangements Committee chaired by Carol Neidle. We hope this Meeting Handbook is a useful guide for those attending, as well as a permanent record of, the 2004 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. January 2004 Contents Meeting Rooms Floor Plan 4 Exhibit Hall Floor Plan 6 General Meeting Information 7 Special Events 7 Office Hours 8 Concurrent Meetings Information 9 LSA Program Thursday Afternoon 11 Thursday Evening 12 Friday Morning 12 Friday Afternoon 13 Friday Evening 16 Rules for Motions and Resolutions 17 Saturday Morning 18 Saturday Afternoon 20 Sunday Morning 21 ADS Program 25 ANS Program 29 NAAHoLS Program 33 SPCL Program 35 SSILA Program 39 Abstracts of Plenary Addresses 49 Abstracts of Regular Papers 57 Addendum 155 Abstracts of Organized Sessions 161 Advertisements 181 3 General Meeting Information Exhibit The exhibit of linguistic publications will be in the Constitution Ballroom. The exhibit is scheduled to be open the following hours: Friday, 9 January 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM Saturday, 10 January 10: 00 AM – 1:00 PM 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM Sunday, 11 January 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM The display copies in the LSA Joint Book Exhibit will be sold begining at 8:30 AM on 9 January. These display copies have been generously donated by the publishers exhibiting in the LSA Joint Book Exhibit, and the proceeds will be donated to fellowships for the Linguistic Institute. Advance orders for display copies, at a discount of 5% greater than that given by the publisher, will be taken prior to 11 January if accompanied by payment. All books must be picked up on 11 January between 8:30 AM and 10:00 AM. Unclaimed books will be resold and the advance payment donated to the Linguistic Institute fellowships. Job Placement Center A Job Placement Center will be be set up in Beacon D On 9 and 10 January, the center will be open 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM. It will also be open 9:00 – 11:00 AM on 11 January. Lists of openings will be available, and the staff will facilitate interviews between applicants and employers. Interviewers are asked to list openings and check in with the center staff so that an interview schedule can be arranged. Applicants should bring an adequate supply of their CV's—enough to submit one copy to each interviewer. The center will have no duplication facilities. Speakers' Preparation Room. The Kent Room will be open 8 January, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, and 9 and 10 January, 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM, for speakers who have brought their own equipment for Power Point presentations and wish to test their equipment before their session. Open Committee Meetings • LSA Executive Committee . Thursday, 8 January, Exeter Room, beginning at 9:00 AM. • Endangered Languages and Their Preservation . Saturday, 10 January, Exeter Room, 8:00 - 9:00 AM. • Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics . Friday, 9 January, Clarendon A Room, 8:00 - 9:00 AM. • Language in the School Curriculum . Saturday, 10 January, Dalton Room, 8:00 - 9:00 AM. • Status of Women in Linguistics . Saturday, 10 January, Hamptons Room, 8:00 - 9:00 AM. • Undergraduate Program Advisory . Friday, 9 January, Dalton Room, 8:00 - 10:00 AM. • Web Video/Virtual Museum on Lan guage and Linguistics . Saturday, 10 January, Conference Room, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Special Events Thursday, 8 January • National Science Foundation Linguistics Program . Open meeting. Dalton Room, 1:00 - 2:15 PM. • Tutorial: Acoustic Analysis . Back Bay Ballroom D, 1:00 - 6:30 PM. • Town Meeting: An Opportunity for New NSF Funding for Linguistics . Back Bay Ballroom B, 2:30 - 4:30 PM. • Panel: Linguists and the Press . Gardner Room, 4:30 - 6:00 PM. • Opening Welcome . Grand Ballroom, 7:15 PM. • Invited Plenary Addresses . Grand Ballroom. 7:30 PM Laurence Horn (Yale U): 'Lexical pragmatics: H. Paul, Grice, and beyond' 8:30 PM Lyn Frazier (U MA-Amherst): 'Syntactic parsing and the interfaces' 7 Friday, 9 January • Demonstration: Linguist's Search Engine . Conference Room, 8:30 - 10:00 AM. • Symposium: Endangered Data vs Enduring Practice: Creating Linguistic Resources That Last . Republic Ballroom, 9:00 - 11:00 AM. • Poster Session. Constitution Ballroom. Members will be present to talk about their posters, 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon. The posters will remain on display during the day on Friday and Saturday. • Screening of new film on endangered languages . Sponsored by LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation and the Endangered Language Fund. Republic Ballroom, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM. • Invited Plenary Address in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the LSA . Grand Ballroom. 12:30 PM Morris Halle (MIT): 'Moving on' • Symposium: Language and Gender: The State of the Art . Back Bay Ballroom A, 2:00 - 4:30 PM. • LSA Business Meeting . Republic Ballroom, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, chaired by Ray Jackendoff, LSA President. • The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award . The 7th biennial award will be presented at the LSA business meeting. • The Victoria A. Fromkin Distinguished Service Prize . The prize will be awarded at the LSA business meeting. • Invited Plenary Address . Grand Ballroom. 7:30 PM Noam Chomsky (MIT): 'Three factors in language design: Background and prospects' Saturday, 10 January • Symposium: Modeling Sociophonetic Variation . Republic Ballroom, 9:00 - 11:30 AM. • Poster Session: Model Undergraduate Linguistics Courses. Constitution Ballroom, 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon. • Invited Plenary Address . Grand Ballroom. 12:30 PM Judy Kegl (U S ME): 'Language predispositions that persist beyond critical periods for language acquisition' • Symposium: Constructions . Republic Ballroom, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. • LSA Presi dential Address . Grand Ballroom 5:30 PM Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U): 'Reintegrating generative grammar' • Reception . A cash bar will immediately follow the presidential address. Meeting Highlights—Sunday, 11 January • Symposium: Endangered Lang uages and Linguistic Theory . Republic Ballroom, 9:00 - 11:30 AM. Office Hours Journal Editors Editors of a number of linguistics journals will hold office hours: • Diachronica Saturday, 10 January, Clarendon A, 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon • IJAL Friday, 9 January, Clarendon A, 10:00 - 11:00 AM • Journal of English Linguistics Friday, 9 January, Clarendon B, 9:00 - 10:00 AM • Journal of Linguistics Friday, 9 January, Clarendon B 3:00 - 4:00 PM • Journal of Phonetics Saturday, 10 January, Clarendon A, 2:00 - 3:00 PM • Linguistic Discovery Friday, 9 January, Clarendon B, 2:00 - 3:00 PM • Linguistic Review Friday, 9 January, Clarendon A, 2:00 - 3:00 PM • Phonology Saturday, 10 January, Clarendon A, 10:00 -11:00 AM • Southwest Journal of Linguistics Friday, 9 January, Clarendon A, 9:00 - 10:00 AM • Syntax Friday, 9 January, Clarendon A, 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon Language Brian Joseph will meet with LSA members in Clarendon B: Friday, 9 January 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon Saturday, 10 January 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon 8 LSA Secretary-Treasurer/Executive Director Sally McConnell-Ginet, outgoing Secretary-Treasurer, Gregory Ward, incoming Secretary-Treasurer, and Margaret Reynolds, Executive Director, will meet with LSA members in the Conference Room: Sunday, 11 January 10:00 - 11:00 AM. LinguistList Helen Aristar-Dry and LinguistList staff will meet with LSA members in the Conference Room: Friday, 9 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM Saturday, 10 January 2:00 - 4:00 PM National Institutes of Health Weijia Ni of NIH will meet with interested individuals in the Exeter Room: Friday, 9 January 1:00 - 5:00 PM National Science Foundation Joan Maling will meet with interested individuals: Friday, 9 January 3:00 - 4:00 PM Clarendon A Saturday, 10 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM Clarendon B Concurrent Meetings American Dialect Society (ADS) Thursday, 8 January • ADS: What's Your Sign for PIZZA? An Introduction to Variation in ASL . Republic Ballroom, 5:00 - 7:00 PM . Friday, 9 January • ADS Executive Council . Jefferson Room, 8:30 - 10:30 AM. • ADS Word of the Year Nominations . Jefferson Room, 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon. • ADS Word of the Year Voting. Commonwealth Room, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. • ADS Bring Your Own Book Recep tion. Jefferson Room, 6:30 - 7:30 PM. Saturday, 10 January • ADS Business Meeting . Commonwealth Room, 8:00 - 9:00 AM. • ADS Annual Luncheon/Presidential Address . The luncheon will be 1:15 - 2:45 PM in the Hamptons Room. American Name Society (ANS) Friday, 9 January • ANS Opening Keynote Address .