2020
Linguistweets 2020
November 10, 2020
I am excited to present my work on place identity and co-occurrence in Northern Maine English at Linguistweets, the first Linguistics conference held entirely on Twitter. My presentation is scheduled for December 5, 2020 at 2:30AM UTC (i.e., 9:30PM EST on the previous day). I look forward to this new kind of conference format, which is much more accessible and environmentally sustainable than regular conferences.
Make sure you follow the hashtag #linguistweets on Twitter so you don't miss out on all of the amazing presentations - all of them are six tweets max!
Gerontological Society of America 2020
November 4, 2020
Sali Tagliamonte and I have an on-demand presentation on language use during cognitive decline at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. It is part of the symposium "Communication and language: Why age matters." It will be available from October 28 to December 31. There will be a live Q&A on November 4, 2020 from 12:45-1:15pm.
Defended dissertation proposal
July 31, 2020
Earlier today, I defended my dissertation proposal entitled "Putting 'the other Maine' on the map: Language variation, local affiliation, and co-occurrence in Southern Aroostook County English" on Zoom. Thanks to all of my wonderful colleagues for their questions, comments and suggestions.
Received dissertation completion award
July 21, 2020
I am happy to announce that I was awarded a Dissertation Completion Award by my department. Looking forward to continue working on documenting the variety of English spoken in Southern Aroostook County, ME, and exploring the relationship between local affiliation and co-occurrence of place-linked features in the area.
Paper on subject doubling in Faetar published
May 14, 2020
When it rains, it pours! Check out my latest work on subject doubling in Faetar, co-authored with Lex Konnelly, Fiona Wilson, Savannah Meslin, and Naomi Nagy.
Proceedings paper on individual differences in (t,d) deletion in Toronto English published
May 9, 2020
Lex Konnelly, Melanie Röthlisberger, Sali A. Tagliamonte, and I have a new proceedings paper out in Proceedings of Methods XVI: Papers from the sixteenth international conference on Methods in Dialectology. It is called "Individual- vs. community-level variation: New evidence from (t,d) deletion in Canadian English".
3rd Annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop cancelled due to COVID-19
March 12, 2020
Due to COVID-19, the organizing committee of the Toronto-Buffalo workshop has decided to cancel the workshop. We hope to reschedule once it is safe to travel again. If/when that happens, we will reach out to everyone with an accepted presentation to see if you would still like to present and to do our best to work around your schedules. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Paper on adjectives of positive evaluation in Toronto and York English published
February 12, 2020
Sali A. Tagliamonte and I have a new paper out in the Journal of English Linguistics. It's called "Adjectives of positive evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England".
CfP 3rd Annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop
January 15, 2020
The call for the 3rd annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop just went live. For more information, please see a copy of the text below. Hoping to see many of you at the workshop!
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The Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo is hosting the 3rd annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Saturday, April 4, 2020.
The theme for this year’s workshop is “Approaches to documenting languages and language varieties”.
Call for papers: The goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists from all sub-disciplines whose research addresses involves the documentation of languages and linguistic varieties, broadly construed, including work making use of formal, historical comparative, sociolinguistic, and experimenal approaches, among others. While language documentation is often most strongly associated with endangered languages, diverse kinds of linguistic research rely on the collection of records of languages and language varieties of all kinds and formal and experimental work can have an important role to play in understanding linguistic diversity. We therefore hope that this workshop will provide a venue where participants can consider all the possible ways that a language can be documented.
This event is is an ideal venue for graduate students to present their ongoing work and get feedback. Contributions from faculty are also welcome. Abstracts should be maximum one-page in length, with at least one-inch margins and 12 point font (Times or equivalent).
Abstracts should be submitted via email to perspectivesonvariation@gmail.com by February 15, 2020.
The body of the email should include:
- Title
- Name(s) of presenter(s)
- Department and affiliation for each presenter
- Email for each presenter
- Technology requirements (other than projector)
Graduate students from Toronto should also indicate whether they would like to be considered for crash space in Buffalo.
We are pleased to announce that Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL) is planning on publishing proceedings of this workshop. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please indicate this in your email.
Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2020
Notification of acceptance: by February 24, 2020
Organizing Team:
Jeff Good (Buffalo)
Megan Hutto (Buffalo)
Katharina Pabst (Toronto)
Keren Rice (Toronto)
Pocholo Umbal (Toronto)