UTASCILT 23 (2016) - UTA Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL |The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington

Dates

The UTA Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 2016) will be held on Friday, November 4, 2016 on the campus of UT Arlington.

Schedule, Location, & Downloads

Oral presentations will take place in Trimble Hall 200,
Poster presentations will take place in Trimble Hall Breezeway (2nd floor).
Schedule: Click here to View/Download UTASCILT 23 Schedule
Abstracts: Click here to View/Download UTASCILT 23 Abstract Booklet
Photos: See coverage of the conference in our Facebook album

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Tyler Peterson of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news/2016/09/from-the-arizona-desert-to-auckland.html

Dr. Peterson's presentation will be: “Evidentials and extended Interrogatives”

Abstract: The aim of this project is to extend the current empirical base and typological scope of questions, through investigating how different semantic and pragmatic elements affect the kinds of meanings questions express, and how they are interpreted. Broadly speaking, questions are often characterized as having a specific kind of syntactic and semantic structure. Pragmatically, they are typically used to request information. However, questions can also have pragmatic effects unrelated to information requests. Two of the more familiar kinds are wh-exclamatives and rhetorical questions. Exclamatives such as ‘What a great movie that was!’ have the semantics of a question, but pragmatically function as statements of surprise or unexpectedness – they are not a request for information (cf. Portner & Zanuttini 2004). Rhetorical questions also pragmatically implicate other kinds of meaning, usually to affirm something both the speaker and addressee already know (cf. Caponigro & Sprouse 2007). However, the meaning of a question can be altered by the insertion of other elements into the interrogative clause. For example, the insertion of the evidential modal =ima in Gitksan (Tsimshianic, an endangered indigenous isolate language in Canada) into a question creates an utterance translated by speakers using ‘I wonder...’.
One of the central empirical goals of this project is to examine how the semantic and pragmatic features of evidentials condition or determine those of conjectural, rhetorical and wh-exclamative questions – or what I call extended interrogatives (EI). This also entails a study of how these phenomena shed light on what we know about extended interrogatives in more familiar languages as, for example, wonder-like verbs or rhetorical questions in English, or the use of the reflexive in French.

Registration Fee for Presenters

Pre-registration (before September 30, 2016): $25
On-site/Late registration (after September 30, 2016): $30

Registration for Attenders

Registration for non-presenters is free.

Payment

Please pre-pay by check only, in US dollars. Make your check payable to LINGUA, and send it to the following address postmarked by the pre-registration deadline:

LINGUA-UTASCILT Registration
701 Planetarium Place
Hammond Hall #132
Box 19559
Arlington, TX 76019-0559, USA

Driving?

If you will be driving and plan to park on campus during the conference, you will need a temporary parking permit. Please let us know about your situation as soon as possible. Parking permits will be prepared for the registered attendees free of charge if we know ahead of time.

Need a hotel?

We recommend the Wingate by Wyndham (817-640-8686) which provides shuttles service between the airport and to the university. If you make your reservation at the Wingate, please specify that you are attending a university-sponsored event and ask for the UTA rate ($79.20/night). Another hotel you might consider is the Parkway Inn (817-860-2323), which is conveniently located within walking distance of the university with a rate of $59.95/69.95 /night single/double. You may make your reservations by contacting the hotel directly.

Wingate website: https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/wingate/arlington-texas/wingate-by-wyndham-arlington/overview?CID=LC:WG:20160927:RIO:Local:SM-wgwnct

Parkway Inn website: https://reservation.magnusonhotels.com/bbe/page1.aspx?pcode=M19741

Finding Your Way Here

The closest airport to The University of Texas at Arlington is Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). It is 20-30 minutes by car between DFW and UTA. Be sure you're flying to the right airport if you need to come by airplane.

UT Arlington Visitors' Website
UT Arlington Campus Maps
(Download a printable PDF map of campus.)
Directions to The University of Texas at Arlington
University Center
Trimble Hall

Poster Presentation Guidelines

Official dimensions for posters is 36 inches x 48 inches (3 feet x 4 feet)
For additional suggestions and guidelines, read this PDF, Poster Presentations: Theory & Application, an excellent resource prepared by Dr. David Silva.

Call for Papers

Now closed.

Awards

The best student papers at the annual UT Arlington Student Conference Linguistics and TESOL are awarded the Yumi Nakamura Prize, which is funded by the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Endowment (read more here).

Purpose

The University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL is a student-led conference specifically designed to give students a chance to present their original research. This is a great opportunity to join students from across America and around the world to present research on language.

Contact infomation

If you have questions or need to contact Lingua please use the following email address: utascilt23@gmail.com