December 7, 2025
Congratulations to the Berkeley linguists who will be presenting at the 2026 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans:
- Riley VanMeter: "Translation and Grammaticalization in Neapolitan: A Comparative Romance Analysis"
- Ben Papadopoulos: "Reimagining the Canon of Linguistic Theory"
- Jordan J. Tudisco: "For a Truly Sexy Linguistics: Centering Transness and Rejecting Anti-Trans Antagonism"
- Jennifer Kaplan: "Going Local: Category Violence and the Provincialization of Identity"
- Katherine Russell: "The typology of contrastive nasality: The case of Kwa"
- Akil Ismael: "Ternary Vowel Length Alternations in Shilluk"
- Eve Fleisig, Nikolai Schwarz, Veronica Grajeda, Abigail Roberts, Rhosean Asmah, and Nicole Holliday: "Identity and Personality in Social Perception of OpenAI's Synthesized Voices"
- Naomi Schroeter and Julian Vargo: "Suprasegmental and Vocalic Variation in Ladino"
- Anna Knall, Deborah Foucault (UMass Amherst), and Adina Camelia Bleotu (UBucharest): "Anaphora Resolution of Romanian One in Early Child Language: The Role of Morphosyntactic Gender"
- Line Mikkelsen, Ellen Thrane (Umiaq, Kalaallit Illuutaat), and Grethe Schmidt (Umiaq, Kalaallit Illuutaat): "Focus, Q-particles and prosodic inversion"
- Line Mikkelsen, Emily Clem (UC San Diego), Grethe Schmidt (Umiaq, Kalaallit Illuutaat), and Ellen Thrane (Umiaq, Kalaallit Illuutaat): "Reverse prolepsis in Kalaallisut"
- Kai Schenck and Alexandra M. Pfiffner: "PHOIBLE inventories suggest that diachrony contributes to the appearance of feature economy"
- Julian Vargo: "Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization in Catalan"
Please let us know if any presentations are missing from this list, so that we can update this story on our departmental website.