Schedule. LHLS 6

Friday September 29, 2017

Time Event
14:30-15:00 Registration
15:00-15:15 Welcome to LHLS 6 – Introductory Remarks
Mark Harris (Vice Provost for Research, UW-Milwaukee)
Jasmine Alinder (Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science, UW-Milwaukee)
Gabriel Rei-Doval (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee)
15:15-16:15 Keynote 1
Xosé Luís Regueira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain).
Ultrapasando fronteiras: continuidades fonéticas entre o galego e o portugués europeo.
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Session 1

  • Ideología y purismo lingüístico: la paranoia del mal hablar en ¡Pobre lengua!
    Mark Hanson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Saturday September 30, 2017

Time Event
10:00–11:00 Keynote 2
Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar (Western Oregon University).
“El enemigo en el espejo”: efectos del conflicto político, religioso y social en el léxico hispano-árabe del español estándar.
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Session 2

  • Agentivity and animacy in Spanish unaccusative predicates.
    Timothy Gupton (University of Georgia-Athens)
  • One of a Kind: The Structure and Interpretation of Spanish Indefinites.
    Jimmy Suzuki (Stony Brook University, New York).
12:30-13:30 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 3

  • La documentación medieval del sur de Ávila: aspectos del consonantismo.
    Vicente J. Marcet Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain).
  • Old Spanish haber in modal and auxiliary periphrases: polysemy or polyfunctionality?
    Lamar A. Graham (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill).
  • The exceptional case of the Spanish participle rompido.
    Jason Doroga (Centre College, Kentucky)
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:15 Session 4

  • Vocales medias en el español de Galicia: relación entre producción acústica y perfil bilingüe del hablante.
    Mónica de la Fuente (University of Minnesota) &
    Susana Pérez Castillejo (University of St Thomas)
  • Number Variation in the Verbal Morphology of Miskitu-Spanish Bilinguals.
    Madeline N. Critchfield (University of Georgia-Athens).
  • A socio-cognitive account of the ‘intransitivization’ of ahorrar ‘save [money]’ and similar Spanish verbs.
    David Korfhagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
17:15-17:30 Concluding Remarks
Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison)
Gabriel Rei-Doval (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee)