Keynote Presenters
Dr. Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico, Emerita)
Joan L. Bybee, Ph. D. Linguistics, UCLA. Her main areas of research interest are language change, phonology, morphology, grammaticalization and crosslinguistic comparison. She was Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York from 1973-1989 and at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1898-2010. Her books include Morphology (Benjamins 1985), The Evolution of Grammar (with R. Perkins and W. Pagliuca, University of Chicago Press, 1994), Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge 2001), Language, Usage and Cognition (Cambridge 2010) and Language Change (Cambridge 2015). She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at UNM, 2004 President of the Linguistic Society of America, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Lina Hou (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lina Hou (she/they) is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara, since 2018. She received her Ph.D in Linguistics from The University of Texas in 2016 and was a postdoctoral scholar in Communications at University of California, San Diego from 2016–2018. Her research interests encompass usage- based linguistics, language documentation and description of signed languages, linguistic ethnography, first language acquisition and language socialization, and inclusion of deaf people of color and social justice in linguistics
