The 2026 LSA Annual Meeting took place in New Orleans, LA from Jan. 8-11. 2026. The following current and very recent members of our department presented:
- Anand Abraham (PhD student): “Internal determiners in Pular relative clauses”
- Andrew Kato (PhD student): “Scalarity and the contribution of correction”
- Boyi Zheng (recent undergrad alum), with Yuhao Dai: “Inferentiality in Mandarin “general past” adverbs”
- Harold Torrence (faculty), Travis Major (recent PhD alum), and Blake Lehman (recent PhD alum): “Freezing effects, P-stranding and successive cyclicity in Avatime”
- Isaac Warren (PhD student): “Neither/nor and negative concord in Turkish”
- Jahnavi Narkar (PhD student) and Dhanya Charan (recent undergrad alum), with Muhammad Rehan: “Lexical stress and syllable weight in Hindi-Urdu pop text-setting”
- Jahnavi Narkar: “Stop inventories are determined by markedness AND economy”
- Jahnavi Narkar: “The Sound Soup: Reverse-engineering the recipe” (Five-Minute Linguist presentation)
- Jason Smith (postdoc), with Corey Snyder, Claude Dimoh and Ibrahim Mansaray: “The nature of relative clause ‘islands’ in Mende and Loko”
- Jason Smith, with Koly Camara: “Deriving OV word order in Lɔma”
- Jian-Leat Siah (PhD student) and Khang Đinh (PhD student): “Syllabification of vocoids in Malay: Evidence from musical text-setting”
- John McGahay (PhD student): “A computational model of allophony as dispersion over phonetic sequences”