MEETING HANDBOOK LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA AMERICAN DIALECT 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 HILTON ATLANTA AND TOWERS HOTEL ATLANTA, GA 2-5 JANUARY 2003 Introductory Note The LSA Secretariat has prepared this Meeting Handbook to serve as the official program for the 77th 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 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: (John Whitman, Chair; Chris Barker; Diane Brentari; William Idsardi; Kathleen Ferrara; Catherine Ringen; Margaret Speas; and Rosalind Thornton) and the help of the following members who served as consultants to the Program Committee: Carolyn Temple Adger, Janet Bing, Betty Birner, Aaron Broadwell, Suzanne Flynn, Maya Honda, Philip LeSourd, Ceil Lucas, Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen, Reiko Mazuka, Lise Menn, Miriam Meyerhoff, Richard Rhodes and Satoshi Tomioka. We are also grateful to Tometro Hopkins (SPCL), Michael Mackert (NAAHoLS), Allan Metcalf (ADS), and Victor Golla (SSILA) for their cooperation. We appreciate the help given by the Atlanta Local Arrangements Committee co-chaired by Michael Covington and Mary Zeigler. We hope this Meeting Handbook is a useful guide for those attending, as well as a permanent record of, the 2003 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. January 2003 Contents Exhibit Hall Floor Plan 4 Meeting Rooms Floor Plan 5 General Meeting Information 6 Special Events 6 Office Hours 7 Concurrent Meetings Information 8 LSA Program Thursday Afternoon 11 Thursday Evening 11 Friday Morning 12 Friday Afternoon 14 Friday Evening 15 Rules for Motions and Resolutions 16 Saturday Morning 17 Saturday Afternoon 18 Sunday Morning 19 ADS Program 21 NAAHoLS Program 24 SPCL Program 25 SSILA Program 29 Abstracts of Plenary Addresses 37 Abstracts of Regular Papers 43 Abstracts of Organized Sessions 127 Advertisements 141 3 General Meeting Information Exhibit There will be an exhibit of linguistic publications in Salon West. The exhibit is scheduled to be open during the following hours: Friday, 3 January 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM 3:00 - 6:00 PM Saturday, 4 January 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM 2:00 - 4:30 PM 7:00 - 8:00 PM Sunday, 5 January 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM The display copies in the LSA Joint Book Exhibit will be sold beginning at 8:30 AM on 5 January, the proceeds to be donated to fellowships for the Linguistic Institute. (These display copies have been generously donated by the publishers exhibiting in the LSA Joint Book Exhibit.) Advance orders for display copies, at a discount of 5% greater than that given by the publisher, will be taken prior to 5 January if accompanied by payment. All books must be picked up on 5 January between 8:30 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 set up in the Madison Room during the Annual Meeting. On 3 and 4 January, the Center will be open 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM. It will also be open 9:00 - 11:30 AM on 5 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 c.v.s--enough to submit one copy to each interviewer. The Center will have no duplication facilities available. Open Committee Meetings • LSA Executive Committee . Thursday, 2 January, Henry Room, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM • Endangered Languages and Their Preservation . Saturday, 4 January, Henry Room, 8:00 – 9:00 AM • Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics . Saturday, 4 January, Henry Room, 9:00 – 10:00 AM • Language in the School Curriculum . Sunday, 5 January, Henry Room, 8:00 – 9:00 AM • University Administrators . Saturday, 4 January, Walton Room, 8:00 – 9:00 AM • Social and Political Concerns . Saturday, 4 January, Henry Room, 1:00 – 2:00 PM • Status of Women in Linguistics . Saturday, 4 January, Salon B, 8:00 – 9:00 AM Special Events Thursday, 2 January • Symposium: Academic Journal Publishing in Linguistics . Ballroom B, 3:00 – 5:30 PM. • Symposium: Innovations in Attracting Undergraduates to Linguistics . Ballroom A, 4:30 – 6:30 PM. • Invited Plenary Addresses . Ballroom A. 7:30 PM Alice Harris (U Stony Brook-SUNY): In other words: Cross-linguistic challenges to the notion of 'word' 8:30 PM Salikoko Mufwene (U Chicago): Genetic creolistics & genetic linguistics Friday, 3 January • Poster Session . Salon West. Members will be present to talk about their posters, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM. The posters will remain on display during the day on Friday and Saturday. • Symposium: Practical Approaches to Incorporating Linguistic Diversity into Linguistics Course s . Ballroom A, 12:00 – 2:00 PM • Symposium: Probability Theory in Linguistics 2: Integrated Frameworks . Salon C, 2:00 – 5:00 PM. • LSA Business Meeting . Ballroom A, 5:00 - 6:30 PM, chaired by Frederick J. Newmeyer, LSA President. • Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award . The award will be given at the LSA Business Meeting. • Victoria A. Fromkin Distinguished Service Prize . The prize will be awarded at the LSA Business Meeting. • Invited Plenary Addresses . Ballroom A. 7:30 PM Mark Baker (Rutgers U): Verbs, nouns, & adjectives: Their universal grammar 8:30 PM Anthony Woodbury (U TX-Austin): Defining documentary linguistics 6 Saturday, 4 January • 2003 Linguistic Institute . Coffee in Salon West, 10:00 – 11:00 AM. Institute Director Dennis Preston and some of the Institute faculty will be available to talk about the Institute with interested individuals in the coffee corner of the Publishers' Exhibit. • Symposium: Federal Funding for Research and Research Training for Lin guists . Ballroom A, 12:00 – 1:45 PM. • LSA Presidential Address . Ballroom A, 5:30 - 7:00 PM. Frederick J. Newmeyer: 'Grammar is grammar and usage is usage' • Reception . Participants are invited to a reception immediately following the Presidential address. Salon B/C, 7:00 - 8:00 PM. Sunday, 5 January • Symposium: Language Variation in the American South . Ballroom D, 9:00 – 11:30 AM. Office Hours Journal Editors Editors of a number of linguistics journals will hold office hours: Diachronica Saturday, 4 January, Cherokee Room, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM IJAL Friday, 3 January, Henry Room, 3:00 – 4:00 PM Journal of English Linguistics Friday, 3 January, Walton Room, 2:00 – 4:00 PM Journal of Phonetics Saturday, 4 January, Walton Room, 9:00 – 10:00 AM Journal of the International Saturday, 4 January, Walton Room, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Phonetic Association Language and Communication Friday, 3 January, Cherokee Room, 2:30 – 4:00 PM Language Sciences Friday, 3 January, Cherokee Room, 2:30 – 4:00 PM Phonology Saturday, 4 January, Cherokee Room, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Southwest Journal of Linguistics Saturday, 4 January, Cherokee Room, 3:00 – 4:00 PM Syntax Friday, 3 January, Walton Room, 1:00 - 2:00 PM As a follow-up to the journal editing symposium on Thursday, a meeting of editors of linguistics journals will be held, with a goal of airing common concerns, sharing common experiences, and the like. For details, contact Brian Joseph, Keren Rice, or Joe Salmons. Language Brian Joseph, editor of Language, will be in the Walton Room: Friday, 3 January 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Saturday, 4 January 1:30 – 2:30 PM All members, including students, are welcome to drop by to ask any questions they may have about submitting articles or reviews to Language. LSA Secretary-Treasurer/LSA Executive Director Sally McConnell-Ginet and Margaret Reynolds will meet with members in the Henry Room: Saturday, 4 January 3:30 – 4:30 PM LinguistList LinguistList staff will meet with those interested in the website in the Henry Room: Friday, 3 January 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Saturday, 4 January 2:00 – 3:00 PM 7 National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation Linguistics Program will hold an open meeting in the Walton Room: Thursday, 2 January 6:00 – 7:00 PM Cecile McKee, Program Director for Linguistics at the National Science Foundation, will meet with interested members in the Cherokee Room: Friday, 3 January 9:00 - 11:00 AM 1:45 - 2:30 PM Trends in Linguistics Series Hans Henrich Hock, co-editor, would like to meet with potential authors to talk about possible projects for this series in the Henry Room: Friday, 3 January 9:30 – 10:30 AM Concurrent Meetings American Dialect Society (ADS) Thursday, 2 January • Sessions 21-23. Fulton/Cobb, 1:00 – 7:00 PM Friday, 3 January • Executive Council . Clayton Room, 8:30 - 10:30 AM • Words of the Year...Nominations . Clayton Room, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Sessions 24-25. Fulton/Cobb, 2:00 – 5:15 PM • Word of the Year...Voting . Fulton/Cobb, 5:30 - 6:30 PM • Reception and Bring Your Own Book Exhibit . Salon B, 6:30 - 7:30 PM Saturday, 4 January • Business Meeting . Fulton/Cobb, 8:00 - 9:00 AM • Sessions 26-27. Fulton/Cobb, 9:15 AM – 1:00 PM • Annual Luncheon . Salon B, 1:15 - 2:45 PM • Session 28. Fulton/Cobb, 3:00 – 4:30 PM North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) Saturday, 4 January • Sessions 29-30 .