Maybe it’s just a smokescreen for a hiring fest, but the program for the LSA Annual Conference sure looks more fun than, say, the APA Eastern. Halle, Chomsky and Horn doing state of the art addresses makes for a pretty good program already, and the semantics section also looks like it will be contain lots of good papers.

Of course, the other APA conferences, those that aren’t taken over by the job market, are also fun, and there are good papers at the Eastern, but it’s hard to find as many highlights as at the Central or Pacific, or at the LSA.