{"id":109,"date":"2020-05-05T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:34:08","slug":"about-sula","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/","title":{"rendered":"About Sula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SULA was founded in 2001 by Angelika Kratzer and Lisa Matthewson at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Its goal is to foster the study of the semantics of under-represented languages of the Americas. Most of the presentations are based on primary fieldwork on Indigenous languages of North, Central and South America.<\/p>\n<p>SULA has the additional goal of supporting the participation of junior scholars. Traditionally, at least one of the invited speakers is a student. There is also a tradition of having at least one invited speaker who is a member of an under-represented language community.<\/p>\n<p>The format of SULA includes commentators for each session; the commentators draw connections between papers and initiate the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Since SULA 4, due to growing interest in the conference, we have had a poster session as well as talks.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings of SULA are published by the GLSA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SULA was founded in 2001 by Angelika Kratzer and Lisa Matthewson at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Its goal is to foster the study of the semantics of under-represented languages of the Americas. Most of the presentations are based on primary fieldwork on Indigenous languages of North, Central and South America. SULA has the additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36268,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}