2019 LSA Linguistic Institute

Since 1928, the Linguistic Society of America has sponsored the Linguistic Institutes, unparalleled gatherings of top linguistics students and professionals from throughout the field and around the world. Once annual events, since 1987 the Institutes have taken place in odd-numbered summers.

Held on a major university campus, the Institute brings together approximately 100 faculty and hundreds more students for a month-long program of courses, lectures, workshops, and social events. The upcoming 2019 Linguistic Institute will be held at the University of California at Davis.

The 2019 LSA Institute will highlight the importance of indigenous and endangered languages in expressing diverse cultural identities, communicating unique perspectives of the world, and sustaining linguistic communities. The Institute will offer several courses and events, including lectures, workshops & symposia, and social gatherings, that bring indigenous and endangered languages, and scholars working on these issues, to the forefront.

The roster of courses and instructors include:

• Field Methods – Pamela Munro (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Amazonian Languages: Diversity, Typology, Historical Change and Language Contact – Martin Kohlberger & Katherine Bolaños (the University of Texas at Austin)
• Global Ethnolinguistic Conflict: An Internet Encyclopedia Project – Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina)
• The Indigenous California Linguistic Landscape – Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• The Structure of Tashlhiyt Berber – Mohamed Lahrouchi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/CNRS)
• The Phonology and Grammar of Southern Pomo (peq) Narratives – Neil Walker (San Joaquin Delta College)
• Digital Methods in Language Documentation – Andrea Berez-Kroeker (University of Hawaii) and Colleen Fitzgerald (the University of Texas at Arlington)
• Experimental Syntax – Elaine Francis (Purdue University), Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan)

Public Lecture:

• June 27, 2019: John Baugh – Edward Sapir Professorship Lecture
  7pm-8pm; Rock Hall, UC Davis
• July 9, 2019: Pamela Munro – Ken Hale Professorship Lecture
  7pm-8pm; Conference Center, Ballrooms ABC, UC Davis.
• July 16, 2019: Bernard Comrie – Hermann and Klara K. Collitz Professorship Lecture
  7pm-8pm; Conference Center, Ballrooms ABC, UC Davis.

Workshops:

• June 21-23, 2019: Georgia Zellou and Alan Yu’s “ 5th Workshop on Sound Change “
• June 26, 2019: Adam Ussishkin and Jonathan Geary’s “Priming methods in word recognition”
• July 17, 2019: Gretchen McCulloch’s “#LingWiki Workshop – Wikipedia editathon for underrepresented languages and varieties.”

For more details, visit:  https://lsa2019.ucdavis.edu/iyil/