TLS 13

About

The 13th Texas Linguistics Society conference is to be held Saturday and Sunday June 23-24, 2012 at the University of Texas at Austin immediately following NASSLLI and alongside the Reasoning & Interaction at NASSLLI workshop. TLS 13 is focused on two themes: (1) the semantics and pragmatics of questions and interrogative models of meaning, and (2) signed languages and meaning. A select number of additional talks have also been accepted for presentation.

Time: 9:00AM - 4:15PM
Location: University Teaching Center (UTC) 4.112, 4.122

Invited Speakers

Keynotes

Invited Talks

Program

Saturday 6/23

9:00-9:30 Breakfast/coffee
9:30-10:30 The Points of Language
Richard Meier (UT Austin)
10:30-11:15 QUD as Filter: Relational Nouns and Have
Michael Freedman (Yale)
Commentary by John Beavers		 10:30-11:00 What's Mine is Yours: A Typological View of Possession in
Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT)
Cornelia Loos (UT Austin)
  
11:15-12:00 Non-congruent answers and exhaustive interpretation
Wataru Uegaki (MIT)
slides
Commentary by Dan Velleman		 11:15-11:45 Role shift, indexicals, and beyond — new evidence
from German Sign Language
Annika Huebl (University of Göttingen)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Entering the world of signed languages: Finding semantic generalizations across kinship terminologies
Erin Wilkinson (University of Manitoba)
2:15-3:00 The basic dynamic effect of interrogative utterances
Sven Lauer and Cleo Condoravdi
(Stanford)
Commentary by Malte Willer		 2:15-2:45 Grammatical Functions of Mouth Gestures in
Japanese Sign Language
Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University/UConn), Uiko Yano,
and Masahiro Minamida (Japanese Sign Language Teachers Center)
    2:45-3:15 Categorical vs. Gradient: What ASL fingerspelling teaches us
about the phonetics-phonology interface
Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Jason Riggle
(University of Chicago)
3:15-4:15 Evaluative Adjectives, Indexicality and Bound Assessors
Craige Roberts (OSU)
9:30-11:30 Reception at Caffé Medici, 2222B Guadalupe Street (with NASSLLI, RAIN)

Sunday 6/24

9:00-9:30 Breakfast/coffee
9:30-10:15 Imperative Answers to Questions Under Discussion
Ed Cormany (Cornell)
handout
Commentary by Sven Lauer		 9:30-10:30 Embedding Polar Questions in ASL
Kathryn Davidson (UConn)
   
10:30-11:15 Determining Questions
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)		 10:30-11:00 Emergence of Lexicons in Family-Based Homesign Systems in Nicaragua
Russell Richie, Julia Fanghella, and Marie Coppola (UConn)
   
11:15-12:15 Erotetic languages and the inquisitive hierarchy
Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam)		 11:15-12:15 Attitude ascriptions in sign languages and strategies of complementation
Josep Quer (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Epistemic modals can scope under past tense
Hotze Rullmann and Lisa Matthewson
(University of British Columbia)
slides		 1:30-2:00 Idiosyncratic First-Person Object Verb Forms in American Sign Language
Lynn Hou and Richard Meier
(UT Austin)
1:45-2:15 Monotonicity in Quantifier Verification
Jakub Szymanik (University of Groningen) and
Marcin Zajenkowski (University of Warsaw)		    
2:30-3:00 Prosodic Constituency and Locality Restrictions on
Levantine Arabic Negative Concord
Fred Hoyt (University of New England)		 2:15-3:15 Panel: Methods in Sign Language Research
3:15-4:15 Representing gradience in word meaning
Katrin Erk (UT Austin)

Registration

Registration is split into two parts: registration and payment. We will be accepting both registration and payment throughout the conference so there is no deadline for registration or payment. Registration fees are waived for registered NASSLLI, RAIN and Turing participants but we ask that you still register so we can plan for attendance.

Check

Checks should be made out to the Texas Linguistics Society and mailed to:

Texas Linguistics Society
Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B5100, Austin, Texas 78712-0198

Credit Card

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Local Information

Campus

The University of Texas is located just a few miles north of downtown Austin. It is accessible primarily via Guadalupe St. which runs along the entire west side of the main campus.

Travel

The main airport servicing Austin, TX and the surrounding area is the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). Shuttles and Taxis are available from AUS and the Route 100 Airport Flyer bus has stops on the UT campus at the intersection of 23rd St. E. and Robert Dedman Dr.

Accommodations

Hotels

Stay With a Graduate Student

We have also made arrangements with some UT graduate students to provide accommodations for TLS participants. If you wish to stay with a graduate student, please let us know via email (tls.conference@gmail.com) with the following information:

  1. Your name and institution
  2. Your contact email
  3. And if you would prefer to stay with:
    • Female / Male / Either
    • Non-smoking / Smoking / Either
    • With pet / no pet (indicate the kind(s) of pets you do not want to stay with)

Additional Visitor Information

Co-located Events

NASSLLI

NASSLLI, the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, is a one-week summer school being held on June 18th-22nd, prior to TLS. It is aimed at formally-minded graduate students and interdisciplinary researchers in Philosophy, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and related fields.

NASSLLI is hosting 20 courses and workshops, including invited courses by Johan van Benthem, Craige Roberts, Noah Goodman, Mark Steedman, and Chris Potts. Registration is currently open.

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Reasoning & Interaction @ NASSLLI

Reasoning and Interaction at NASSLLI (RAIN) is a workshop to be held immediately after NASSLLI and alongside TLS on June 23rd and 24th. RAIN will feature talks by NASSLLI instructors and students whose work is related to reasoning and/or interactions among individuals and groups.

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Turing Symposium

Alan Turing, inventor of the Turing machine and one of the earliest pioneers of computer science and artificial intelligence was born 100 years ago on June 23rd, 1912.

To commemorate the occasion, speakers have been invited to talk Turing's life and discuss work in the fields Turing influenced. The current program includes talks by Bruce Sterling, Bob King and Kevin Knight.

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Proceedings

Role Shift, Indexicals and Beyond – New evidence from German Sign Language
Annika Hübl (University of Göttingen)
Hübl, A. 2013. Role Shift, Indexicals and Beyond – New evidence from German Sign Language. In Geer, LC (ed) Proceedings from the 13th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. pp. 1-11 
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Attitude ascriptions in sign languages and role shift
Josep Quer (ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Quer, J. 2013. Attitude ascriptions in sign languages and role shift. In Geer, LC (ed) Proceedings from the 13th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. pp. 12-28 
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A typological view of possessive constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands
Cornelia Loos (University of Texas at Austin)
Loos, C. 2013. A typological view of possessive constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands. In Geer, LC (ed) Proceedings from the 13th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. pp. 29-44 
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Grammatical Functions of Mouth Gestures in Japanese Sign Language
Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University/University of Connecticut)
Uiko Yano (Independent Researcher)
Masahiro Minamida (Japanese Sign Language Teachers Center)
Matsuoka, K., Yano, U., & Minamida, M. 2013. Grammatical Functions of Mouth Gestures in Japanese Sign Language. In Geer, LC (ed) Proceedings from the 13th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. pp. 45-54 
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Emergence of Lexicons in Family-Based Homesign Systems in Nicaragua
Russell Richie (University of Connecticut)
Julia Fanghella (University of Connecticut)
Maria Coppola (University of Connecticut)
Richie, R., Fanghella, J., & Coppola, M. 2013. Emergence of Lexicons in Family-Based Homesign Systems in Nicaragua. In Geer, LC (ed) Proceedings from the 13th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. pp. 55-67 
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