SALT 26

Local organizing committee

• David Beaver (Committee Chair)
• John Beavers
• Christopher Brown
• Josh Dever
• Hans Kamp
• Tammi Stout
• Stephen Wechsler

Special session committee

• Cleo Condoravdi
• Stefan Kaufmann

Selection committee

• David Beaver
• Luke Pinette
• Joshua Dever
• Tammi Stout
• Zach Childers
• Stephen Wechsler
• Christopher Brown
• John Beavers
• Megan Hyska
• Hans Kamp
• Alexandra Teodorescu
• Katya Levina

SALT 26 is sponsored by:

• UT College of Liberal Arts
• UT Department of Linguistics
• UT Department of Philosophy
• UT Department of French & Italian
• UT Department of Spanish & Portuguese
• UT Department of English

Special thanks to:

Our local organizing committee's fearless leader, for conceiving of, among other things, the salt shaker stress-toy memorabilia:

• David Beaver

Our (UT Austin Linguistics') administrative manager, for comprehensively handling logistics: scheduling, reservations, budgeting, payments, and so much more.

• Liz Myrick

Our local graduate student volunteers, for making sure (mostly^‡) everything ran smoothly:

• Christopher Brown
• Tammi Stout

Other linguistics graduate students (from UT and elsewhere) who volunteered^¤ their time:

• Joseph Deveaugh-Geiss
• Katya Levina
• Conni Loos

For the content, by the numbers,

• the 248 authors who submitted 182 abstracts,
• the 277 reviewers who facilitated SALT's continued dedication to high quality research,
• and the 123 authors who contributed to 40 posters and 19 oral presentations.

Our invited speakers:

• Lauri Karttunen
• Judith Tonhauser
• Stanley Peters
• Sigrid Beck
• Kristen Syrett
• Rick Nouwen

The SALT 25 organizers, for good advice, fast responses, and keeping detailed records that were extremely useful to reference when making our own preparations:

• Christopher Potts
• Beth Levin

The University of Maryland organizing committee (in advance), for hosting SALT 27:

• Alexander Williams
• Valentine Hacquard

University of Texas at Austin delegates, for their support and warm introductions:

• Randy Diehl, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
• Richard Meier, Chair of the Linguistics Department

Blanton museum staff, for accommodating us in their beautiful space:

• Stacey Hoyt
• Lily Alpern

University of Texas at Austin linguistics undergraduates who helped out:

• Lydia White
• Karina Zemel