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Meeting Highlights
Plenary Presentations
State of the Art Addresses
Thursday, 5 January 7:30 PM Sandra Thompson (UC-Santa Barbara)
Friday, 6 January 12:30 PM Carlota Smith (U TX-Austin)
Friday, 6 January 7:30 PM Jane Hill (U AZ)
Saturday, 7 January 12:30 PM Mary Ann Willie (U AZ)
Presidential Address
Saturday, 7 January 5:30 - 7:00 PM Mark Aronoff (U Stony Brook) at the Kimo Theatre
The titles of all papers and presentations will appear in the October 2005 LSA Bulletin on the LSA website in late October.
Other Events
Open Committee Meetings
LSA Executive Committee. Thursday, 5 January, Board N (HR), beginning
at 8:00 AM.
Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP). Friday, 6 January, Board
E (HR), 9:00 – 10:00 AM.
Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL). Friday, 6 January, Sage (HR), 8:00
– 10:00 AM
Language in the School Curriculum (LiSC). Saturday, 7 January, Board E (HR),
8:00 – 9:00 AM.
Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL). Saturday, 7 January, Sage (HR),
8:00 – 9:30 AM.
Special Events
Thursday, 5 January
ANS: Executive Committee. Board E (HR), 1:00 – 3:30 PM.
LSA: Town Meeting on Language Documentation. Pavilion IV (HR), 1:00 – 4:00 PM.
National Science Foundation Linguistics Program Open Meeting. Board E (HR), 4:30 - 5:30 PM.
LSA: Endangered Language Film Project (“The Last Speakers”). Pavilion I (HR), 6:00 – 7:00 PM.
LSA: Welcome. Pavilion VI (HR), 7:15 PM.
LSA: Invited Plenary Address. Pavilion VI (HR), 7:30 – 8:30 PM, Sandra Thompson, ‘What are clauses for?:
Understanding grammar in terms of social action’.ANS: No-Host Reception. Sage (HR), 9:00 – 10:30 PM.
Friday, 6 January
ADS: Executive Council. Board N (HR), 8:30 – 10:30 AM.
ADS: Word of the Year Nominations. Fiesta 1-2 (HR), 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
ANS: Invited Plenary Address. Fiesta 3-4 (HR), 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Emma Woo Louie, ‘Some observances on
Chinese given names’.LSA: Invited Plenary Address. Pavilion VI (HR), 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Carlota Smith, ‘Direct and indirect temporal
intepretation: A unified approach’.NAAHoLS: Business Meeting. Laguna (CC), 4:30 – 5:30 PM.
ADS: Word of the Year Voting. Fiesta 1-2 (HR), 5:30 – 6:30 PM.
LSA: Business Meeting. Pavilion VI, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, chaired by Mark Aronoff, LSA President.
The Kenneth L. Hale Award will be presented at the LSA business meeting.
The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award will be presented at the LSA business meeting.
The Victoria A. Fromkin Distinguished Service Prize will be presented at the LSA business meeting.ANS: Dinner. La Placita Dining Rooms, Old Town, 7:00 PM.
ADS: Bring Your Own Book Exhibit/Reception. Sage (HR), 6:30 – 7:30 PM.
LSA: Invited Plenary Address. Pavilion VI (HR), 7:30 – 8:30 PM, Jane Hill, ‘Borrowing as appropriation: Indexicality
and the language of White racism in American English’.Student Mixer. District Bar and Grill, 115 4th St., 8:45 PM. Students, come out and meet other LSA student members at our 2nd Annual Student Mixer to be held at the District Bar and Grill, 115 4th Street. The mixer will begin at 8:45 PM and will feature live music and light snacks!
Saturday, 7 January
ADS: Business Meeting. Fiesta 1-2 (HR), 8:30 – 9:30 AM.
ANS: Business Meeting. Fiesta 3-4 (HR), 8:30 – 9:00 AM.
LSA: Federal Funding for Linguistic Research Panel. Laguna (CC), 9:00 – 10:30 AM.
ANS: Invited Plenary Address. Fiesta 3-4 (HR), 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, D. Kenneth Tucker, ‘Fingerprints and entropy:
Comparing national distributions of forenames and surnames’.ADS: Annual Luncheon. Sage (HR), 12:15 –1:45 PM.
LSA: Invited Plenary Address. Pavilion VI (HR), 12:30 – 1:30 PM, MaryAnn Willie, ‘Cling peaches and all: The
parallel worlds of indigenous languages and linguistics’.SPCL: Business Meeting. Cochiti (CC), 3:45 – 5:30 PM.
LSA: Linguistic Institute Directors’ Meeting. Board N (HR), 4:00 – 5:00 PM.
SSILA: Business Meeting. Picuris (CC), 4:30 – 6:00 PM.
LSA: Presidential Address. Kimo Theatre, 5:30 – 7:00 PM.
The Class of 2006 LSA Fellows will be presented.
Mark Aronoff, LSA President, ‘In the beginning was the word’.LSA: Reception. Pavilion VI (HR), 7:00 – 8:00 PM.
SPCL: Dinner. TBA, 7:30 – 9:00 PM.
Sunday, 8 January
Journal Editors’ Meeting. Board E (HR), 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Office Hours
2007 LSA Linguistic Institute Director. Board E (HR).
Saturday, 7 January 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Center for the Study of Language (CASL). Board E (HR).
Friday, 6 January 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Editor of Language. Santo Domingo (CC).
Friday, 6 January 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Saturday, 7 January 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
LinguistList. Board N (HR).
Friday, 6 January 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Saturday, 7 January 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Open Language Archive Community (OLAC). San Juan (CC).
Saturday, 7 January 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Journal Editors. Santo Domingo (CC), Friday, 6 January:
Syntax, 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Linguistic Discovery, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
IJAL, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cognitive Linguistics, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Journal Editors. Santo Domingo (CC), Saturday, 7 January:
Journal of Pragmatics, 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 10:00 –11:00 AM
Diachronica, 2:00 –3:00 PM
Journal of Phonetics, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
- Registration: Registration; Registration form (pdf); Register online now
- Meeting Highlights: Plenaries, Other Events (Business Meeting, Student Mixer)
- Preliminary program (pdf)
- Hotel Accommodations
- Services: Child Care; Job Placement; Publishers' Exhibit; Sign interpreting; Wireless Internet Access
- Presentation Resources: Guidelines for Giving an LSA Paper; How to Design and Present a Successful Poster
