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Thursday AfternoonLSAVerb Phrase Syntax 4Room:Chair:30SuffolkHeidi Harley (University of Arizona)4:00 Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania): The nature(s) of ergative case4:30 Cherlon Ussery (Carleton College): Agreement and the Icelandic passive: a smuggling account5:00 David J. Medeiros (University of Michigan): A cyclic linearization approach to VP-remnant formation inNiuean and Hawaiian5:30 Meredith Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Verb phrase ellipsis and v: evidence from Hocąk6:00 Alice Davison (University of Iowa): Syntactic structure and modality in Hindi-Urdu6:30 Nyoman Udayana (The University of Texas at Austin), John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin): Middlevoice in IndonesianSociolinguistics I 5Room:Chair:WellesleySali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto)4:30 Jason Riggle (University of Chicago), Eric Hallman (University of Chicago): Identifying individual style andstyle shifting on reality television with maximum entropy models5:00 Michael Gradoville (Indiana University): Collocation frequency and the reduction of Fortalezense Portuguese'para'5:30 Nathan A Severance (Dartmouth College), Kenneth P. Baclawski, Jr. (Dartmouth College), James N. Stanford(Dartmouth College): Interrupted transmission: a study of Eastern New England dialect features in rural central NewHampshire6:00 Laurel MacKenzie (University of Manchester), Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania): Two casestudies on the non-local conditioning of variation6:30 Jack Grieve (Aston University), Andrea Nini (Aston University): The authorship of the Declaration On TheCauses And Necessity Of Taking Up ArmsHistorical Linguistics 6Room:Chair:SimmonsBrian Joseph (The Ohio State University)4:00 Kenneth P. Baclawski, Jr. (Dartmouth College): The Kuki-Chin deictic complex: examining interconnectedreference systems4:30 Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon): Hierarchical statistical inference and lexical diffusion of soundchange5:00 Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Pangus Ho (BBN, Inc.): Languages do not showlineage-specific trends in word-order universals5:30 Colleen Ahland (SIL International): The status of Gumuz as a language isolate6:00 Student Abstract Award Winner John Sylak-Glassman (University of California, Berkeley): The phoneticproperties of voiced stops descended from nasals in Ditidaht6:30 David Kamholz (University of California, Berkeley): Tonogenesis in Yerisiam, an Austronesian language ofWest New GuineaPhonetics and Its Interfaces 7Room:Chair:TremontTBA4:00 Abby Walker (The Ohio State University), Jane Mitsch (The Ohio State University), Shontael Wanjema (TheOhio State University), Katie Carmichael (The Ohio State University), Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The OhioState University): Performing gender: a sociophonetic analysis of a gender mimicry task4:30 Jessica Grieser (Georgetown University): [t]inking about Takoma: race, place, and style at the border ofWashington, D.C.5:00 Meghan Sumner (Stanford University), Reiko Kataoka (San Jose State University/Stanford University): I heardyou but didn’t listen: listeners encode words differently depending on a speaker’s accent