Come hear about the logical form of imperatives, and what sets prescriptive language apart from ordinary descriptions and questions!
"Speakers of German enjoy forming compounds and the German language is infamous for long words like 'Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz". Even though compound formation is an easy task for speakers, the linguistic analysis of the semantic relations of the stems of a compound is a complex task. This talk will discuss possibilities of how we can use compound analysis for a deeper understanding of cultural change, discuss data-driven methods, and present empirical evidence from large German newspaper corpora. The talk will present: 1. a quick overview of the different word formation processes in German, 2. different heuristics for the semantic analysis of compounds, 3. analysis of distributional patterns of stems in large corpora, and 4. possibilities of a data-driven identification of the semantic relations between the stems."
Performing Down East: Dialect, Impression, and Temp Tales
"Temp Tales," a series of animated YouTube shorts by O'Chang Comics, presents the experiences of a temp worker recently relocated to Maine. As part of the performance, imitations are made of the dialectal features of rural and coastal regions. This talk examines the phonetic features that are used by the main performer, a native of Maine, in presenting this dialect. Comparisons are made between the performer's non-dialectal and dialectal speech to determine what features of the dialect are considered important in rendering the dialect.
I Ain’t Gonna Give Up My Language: How to Perform Research Investigating the Use of Contrastive Analysis as a Method to Assist the Transition from Appalachian English to Standard American English
This presentation will explore and critique the methods for investigating contrastive analysis as a tool for instructing Appalachian students. This use of contrastive analysis is meant to ease students' transition from Appalachian English to Standard American English in a way that prevents harmful and negative ideologies about their vernacular dialect. My presentation will examine and compare the methods required for a study of this sort on two age groups: college students and high school students. I will also postulate on the benefits and significance of the study as a whole, as well as those for each individual age group.
Linguistic Tools for the University of Kentucky Writing Center: A Proposal
This presentation will propose a collaboration between the UK Writing Center, Linguistics program, and department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies in order to get more linguistics-based tools into the Writing Center so as to facilitate teaching and learning the composing process.
11:00-11:30 - Nathan Hardymon
English Becomes More Analytic?: A Proposal
This presentation will give a proposal for research that looks at English as becoming more of an analytic language with special attention paid to the auxiliary verbs "do" and "did" and the periphrastic superlatives and comparatives. Through corpus investigation, I hope to find some evidence of these verbs gaining some traction with uses like modals and of the superlatives and comparatives gaining more traction in the periphrastic forms diachronically.
How to Do Things with Verbs
Forthcoming
13:00-13:30 - Amber Thompson
Luvale Causative Morphology
Luvale is a Bantu language spoken by more than 600,000 people in Zambia and Angola. However, it has been widely understudied and almost no current literature is available on the language. In order to lessen this information gap, this presentation will focus on the description of one feature of Luvale Verbal Morphology--the causative derivations--which seems to be undergoing a change in usage since the time of the last complete grammar in 1949. This presentation represents the current stage of Amber's ongoing research for her M.A. thesis.
13:30-14:00 - Parker Brody
Morphological Agreement in Basque
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14:00-14:20 - Afternoon Break
Who used what language with whom and when? -- data-driven pattern identification, social network analysis, and other historical sociolinguistic 'hocus pocus'
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Differing Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European's Accent and Ablaut System
It is uncontroversial that Proto-Indo-European *-nti# regularly becomes -t /d/ in Old Irish, as in berait ‧berat ‘(they) carry’ (< *bheronti). Nevertheless, my principal claim in this talk is that just in the copula, and under certain specifiable conditions, the same sequence results instead in -n. In the course of using this new phonological rule to uncover a couple of hitherto unnoticed copular forms, I also comment on morpho-phonological curiosities in the paradigm of the Old Irish copula more generally.
Abstract: "Linguists have been teaching the general public for several decades now that traditional conceptions of "bad" versus "good" grammar are not based on scientific argumentation, but certain fashions laid down by assorted thinkers mostly in the eighteenth century. However, the public remains convinced that most speakers of English go about speaking it "wrong." In this talk, I try to present the linguist's perspective in a new way, showing that while all people must learn standard grammar for public purposes, nonstandard grammar is distinct, but not logically mistaken."
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9:00-9:30 |
Welcome Tea & Coffee |
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9:30-10:30 |
Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis a mistake? John McWhorter, Columbia University |
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10:30-11:15 |
The left periphery and topic hierarchy in Santiaguense: complexity in a creole pronominal system. Marlyse Baptista and Rachel Bayer, University of Michigan |
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11:15-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-12:15 |
The complexity of definites in French based creoles Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University |
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12:15-1:00 |
Language ecology and form selection in some Iberian creole languages Clency Clements, Indiana University |
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1:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00-2:45 |
If you look closer : Inflectional morphology in Louisiana Creole Fabiola Henri (Univesity of Kentucky) & Thomas Klingler (Tulane University) |
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2:45-3:30 |
On Decreolization, Creole Simplicity Metrics, and the Tales of Brer Rabbit Kevin Rottet & Jamie Root, Indiana University |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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3:45-4:30 |
Implicative relations and morphological complexity: The case of Mauritian Raphael Finkel, Fabiola Henri & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky |
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4:30-5:00 |
Open discussion |
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5:00-5:30 |
Business Meeting |
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Conference Dinner |
