Thread by @dapiridoobman

Next up: Dr Melanie McKay-Cody “Our Past and Present in Linguistic Study of Intergenerational Transmission of North American Indian Sign Language” #HDLS14

McKay-Cody starts with a petroglyph which represented a sign used by Plains peoples for prayer. She then shows us a sign dated back to 6000 BCE for "hunger" which is still used in Plains and Great Basin communities #HDLS14

I had to take a calm-dog-down break while i prep to see @MaureenKosse & @rebeccalee345 but now my dog is straight up freaking out so i’m down a hand for tweeting 😭

Lee starts out with invoked and evoked frames ( a la filmore), and Kosse continues by connecting these frames to *ethnographic* work #hdls14

Kosse: Many formal semantic accounts lead us to outcomes which we know don’t make sense (eg only those in power can use these terms). instead, we use a usage based constructional approach and a
context rich semantics #HDLS14

@MaureenKosse has so many quotable insights, thinking of “conspiracy theories as partially filled schemas” (fixed points: antisemitism, racism, ableism) and “gestalt in the worst ways” #hdls14

“ambiguity can form when different usage patterns diverge” — another @MaureenKosse framing im chewing on across contexts

i had so much more to say but couldn’t take even one hand off this doofus without her freaking out! thank you for such a great talk! I’d love to incorporate this into my Lg & Discrimination course! @MaureenKosse @rebeccalee345! #HDLS14

Now one of my FAB students @UMichLing @fbisnath and @c_borstell! They had a lovely talk on which prepositions are used to talk about island and non-island nations!! they found interactions between familiarity and island type (eg archipelago, cf. adjunct, WH)! #HDLS2020