The Twentieth Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society will take place February 19–20, 2021. The conference will be hosted virtually by the University of Texas at Austin.
All participants must register before February 19. Registration is free.
Register for the Conference!This year's conference will feature keynote presentations from:
Last updated January 13, 2021
Download the Schedule| Time (CST) | Event |
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| 9:00AM - 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Paper Talks: Syntax Xiaolong Lu -- What Can History Tell Us About Antonymous Compounds? Evidence from Adverb Chi-zao in Mandarin Chinese Tris Faulkner -- Es bueno que usamos el indicativo: How Mood Use Influences Social Attitudes Jesus Olguin -- As if-constructions in typological perspective |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Keynote: Jeremy Calder |
| 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Paper Talks: Revitalization/Sign Language Elizabeth Merrill and J. Albert Bickford -- Language use among deaf and hearing people in a Mexican Zapotec community Austin German -- The emergence of segmentation in Zinacantec Family Homesign Luke Bishop -- New Speakers as the future of minoritized languages: A projection from Iberia to the Americas |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Keynote: Jenny L. Davis |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Break |
| 4:30 PM - | Reception - Gather Town |
| Time (CST) | Event |
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Paper Talks: Semantics/pragmatics Katja Hannß -- The Chipaya salience-marking enclitics as discourse operators Michael Everdell -- Verb form, event structure and pragmatic definiteness: evidence from objects in O'dam Guillem Belmar Viernes, Alonso Vásquez-Aguilar and Jeremías Salazar -- Agent hierarchy and segmental erosion: Allomorphy in dependent pronouns in Yucunani Sà'án Sàvǐ |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Keynote: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio |
| 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Lunch |
| 12:45 PM - 2:30 PM |
Poster Session Mina Giannoula -- The nature of preverbs in Modern Greek Mian Jia and Shuting Yao -- Face and impoliteness in Chinese Freestyle Rap Battles Emily Lindsay-Smith -- Non-Exceptional Stress Exceptions: Prosodic Preferences in Arabic Affixes Sahar Almohareb -- Effects of Shared L1 Background on the Rating of Foreign Accent Alejandra Montero Saiz-Aja -- Gender differences in the perceptual learning styles and productive vocabulary of EFL learners Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Marta Szreder -- Non-verbal Predicate Negation in Child Emirati Arabic Marcel Schlechtweg and Greville G. Corbett -- Plural agreement in English: Does it affect the duration of the nominal s suffix? Nicole Sedor -- The Relationship of Instruction, Assessment, Feedback, and Performance Within the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) Framework Krishna Prasad Chalise -- The patterns of language maintenance and shift in six minority languages of Nepal |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM |
Paper Talks: Discourse analysis Ping-Hsuan Wang -- Attacking or advocating Taiwan's gender equity education in Facebook comments Mahmood K. Ibrahim and Ulrike Tabbert -- The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimes in Kurdish-Iraqi Sherko Bekas' Poem The Small Mirrors Katherine Arnold-Murray -- "Because I’ve had these things I know I didn’t do by myself": A case study of how one life storyteller constructs an emergent spiritual identity through representations of agency |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 4:00 PM - | Happy Hour - Gather Town |
Submissions are now closed.
The organizers invite papers from all sub-fields of linguistics. There will be a special session focusing on the role of language in perpetuating and dismantling social inequality.
Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, with 10 minutes for questions/discussion. There will also be a poster session.
Abstract guidelines:
Length: 500 words maximum, excluding examples and references.
Format: Include the paper or poster title and the text of the abstract. The abstract should not include the author’s name, affiliation, or other identifying information. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2020 November 30, 2020
Notification: December 18, 2020 December 25, 2020
How to submit: Please submit abstracts via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tls2021