Cascadilla Press LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING HANDBOOK 2011 AMERICA OF LINGUISTIC SOCIETY New for 2011! Online delivery! Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Pittsburgh, PA Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Arboreal for Mac or Windows 6-9 January 2011 Graduate Students Second Edition With Arboreal you’ll find it easy to create syntax trees right Monica Macaulay in your word processor. Arboreal is a TrueType font which gives you branching lines, triangles, and movement lines. Surviving Linguistics offers linguistics students clear and You can put the text of the tree in any font you like, and use practical advice on how to succeed in graduate school and Arboreal to do the rest. Arboreal works with any Mac or earn a degree. The book is a valuable resource for students Windows application. at any stage of their graduate career, from learning to write linguistics papers through completing their dissertation We’ve come a long way from floppy disks. You can now and finding a job. Along the way, Macaulay explains the buy Arboreal or ArborWin through Kagi. They’ll email you Meeting Handbook process of submitting conference abstracts, speaking at a personal download link—click on the link, install the conferences, writing grant applications, publishing journal font, and you’ll be making beautiful articles, creating a CV, and much more. trees in minutes. The second edition adds a new section for undergraduates Arboreal for Mac Linguistic Society of America applying to grad school in linguistics, more information on $20.00 CD-ROM or download funding sources, preparing conference posters, and citation Arboreal for Windows (ArborWin) managers, and new book and website recommendations. $20.00 CD-ROM or download We offer paperback 10-packs for professors, advisors, and departments who want to give this valuable guide to their American Dialect Society students. Tools and Games American Name Society Surviving Linguistics, 2nd edition $24.95 paperback, $125.00 for a 10-pack Magnetic Phonetics North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences Magnetic Phonetics is great fun for small groups. 120 of Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics “a must-have” these magnetic IPA symbol tiles are designed for broad transcription of English and include a score on each tile. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas —Studies in Hispanic and We include rules for playing games similar to Scrabble. Lusophone Linguistics El español a través de la lingüística: IPA Bingo Preguntas y respuestas IPA Bingo is perfect for a larger linguistics classroom. This editado por Jennifer D. Ewald y Anne Edstrom is a fun way for students to practice using the IPA symbols, and some simple variations help students learn distinctive These engaging short essays explore linguistic answers to features and natural classes. real questions that students ask when studying Spanish. The informative and sometimes surprising answers—all IPA Charts written in Spanish—are provided by experts in Hispanic From large to small, we can meet your IPA chart needs. We linguistics. This book discusses thought-provoking topics BLACK offer packs of compact IPA chart cards that you can give for advanced Spanish classes and is a perfect fit for courses to all of your students. A pack of 50 cards is just $20! At on Hispanic linguistics. www.cafepress.com/cascadilla you’ll find our large IPA El español a través de la lingüística chart posters alongside our selection of bumper stickers, $38.95 paperback bibs and bears for baby linguists, and more. YELLOW www.cascadilla.com MAGENTA CYAN 47129_lsa_covers_nk.indd 1 12/7/2010 10:26:52 AM John Benjamins Publishing Company Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online Editor: Alexander Lubotsky New journals from John Benjamins Publishing Indo-European Journal of Historical Linguistics Etymological Dictionaries Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Jóhanna Barðdal Online This new journal especially strives to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Vol. 1. 2011 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. Institutional rate eur 160.00 / Private rate eur 60.00 brill.nl/iedo Language and Dialogue The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IED Online) reconstructs the lexicon for the most Edited by Edda Weigand important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous online This is an interdisciplinary journal, tackling the issue of how body, mind and language are reference source for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an interconnected and dialogically put to action. It deals with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, in theory and in practice, in business, court, the media, politics, and academia. reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information. New content will be Vol. 1. 2011 2 issues; ca. 320 pp. Institutional rate eur 150.00 / Private rate eur 60.00 added on an annual basis. Language documentation [[[[[ [[ Linguistic Bibliography Online Language Documentation Edited by and Practice and values Hella Olbertz Sijmen Tol Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee Language documentation is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing LINGUISTIC number of endangered languages. The present book details the most recent developments in this BIBLIOGRAPHY rapidly developing field with papers written by linguists primarily based in academic institutions in ONLINE North America, although many conduct their fieldwork elsewhere. 2010. xviii, 340 pp. Hb 978 90 272 1175 0 eur 99.00 / uSD 149.00 [[[[[ [[ new Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series brill.nl/lbo Edited by Gunter Senft CLU-SAL publishes monographs and edited collections, culturally oriented grammars and dictionaries in the cross- and interdisciplinary domain of anthropological linguistics or linguistic anthropology. The series offers a forum for The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its eld. anthropological research based on knowledge of the native languages of the people being studied and that linguistic It provides over 260.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics. It covers research and grammatical studies must be based on a deep understanding of the function of speech forms in the speech all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language speci c, from all geographical community under study. areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. It is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the eld. New Perspectives Social Structure, Ute Reference Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists on Endangered Space and Possession Grammar from all over the world. With annually around 20.000 records added, the Linguistic Bibliography Languages in Tongan Culture by T. Givón remains the standard reference work for every scholar of linguistics. Edited by José Antonio and Language Flores Farfán and by Svenja Völkel Fernando F. Ramallo For a 30-day free trial (institutions only), consortia deals and other pricing options, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected] for customers in the Americas. [email protected] www.benjamins.com 47129_lsa_covers_nk.indd 2 12/7/2010 10:26:52 AM 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 Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel Pittsburgh, PA 6-9 January 2011 Official 2011 Meeting Sponsors Introductory Note The LSA Secretariat has prepared this Meeting Handbook to serve as the official program for the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). In addition, the Handbook is the official program for the 2011 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: Co-chairs Keren Rice and Heidi Harley and members Hana Filip, Sharon Inkelas, Anna Papafragou, Eric Potsdam, Olivia Sammons, Scott Schwenter, Sali Tagliamonte, and Alan Yu. This year, the Program Committee received twenty-one preliminary proposals for organized sessions, of which eleven were accepted for presentation. The Committee received 541 individual abstracts, of which 222 were accepted for presentation as 20-minute papers and 80 were accepted for presentation