Columbia Linguistics students were well represented at this year’s LSA 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, where they presented their original research and connected with the broader linguistics community. This event is a primary gathering for the field, bringing together scholars, students, and professionals from around the world to share research and discuss new developments.
John Prado (SPS ’26) presented his work on Conjunction and Discourse Structure in Cherokee as part of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). Meanwhile, Ben Parkhurst (CC ’26) and co-author Phillip Carter (FIU) shared their research on Adverbial and Minor Grammatical Calques in Miami English during the ADS sessions.
Beyond their own presentations, students attended talks on topics across the field, including:
- LSA President Heidi Harley’s keynote, We are all ideal speaker-listeners.
- Speech-based Generative AI for Low-Resource Languages: Promises and Pitfalls by Claire Bowern and Alessio Tosolini.
- An experimental study on anaphoric kind reference with English “the” by Sadhwi Srinivas and Joshua Way.
For more information about the LSA, including resources for students, a job board, and the upcoming Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2026), visit their website here!
