Program

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• Schedule for [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday]
• Invited speakers: [Norval Smith] [Elisabeth Selkirk] [J. Kathryn Bock] [Peter Lasersohn] [Sandra Chung]
• Main sessions: [1 (syntax)] [2 (syntax/semantics)] [3 (phonology)] [4 (syntax)] [5 (phonology)] [6 (syntax)] [7 (semantics)] [8 (syntax)]
• Special sessions: [Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles] [Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics]
• Poster sessions: [1 (Friday)] [2 (Saturday)]
• Alternates: [Phonology] [Semantics] [Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics] [Syntax]

FRIDAY, October 13
8:30-9:00 Breakfast      
9:00-9:30 Opening remarks
  Karlos Arregi, NELS 37 Organizing Committee
  Elabbas Benmamoun, Head, Department of Linguistics
  Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
9:30-11:00 Main session 1: Syntax
  Chair: Karlos Arregi, UIUC
  • Seungwan Ha, Boston University: Contrastive Focus: Licensor for Right Node Raising
  • Youngju Choi & James Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Argument Cluster Coordination and Constituency Test (Non-)Conflicts
  • Kirsten Gengel, University of Stuttgart: Phases and Ellipsis
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Main session 2: Syntax/Semantics
  Chair: James Yoon, UIUC
  • Koji Kawahara, University of York: A New Perspective on Japanese Sika-Nai Constructions
  • Masahiko Aihara, University of Connecticut: Japanese Superlative Constructions: Evidence for ‘est’-movement  
  • Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University: On Locative Empty Pronouns and Anti-Quantifier Zutsu in Japanese
1:00-2:30 Lunch break
2:30-3:30 Invited speaker
  Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam: Creole phonology: No such discipline, but what a lot you can learn from it!
  Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Special session:
  Phonology & Morphology of Pidgins & Creoles
  Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC
  • Sharon Gerlach, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: A constraint-based analysis of coda consonant reflexes in Haitian Creole
  • Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin: Verb Allomorphy in French-related Creoles
  • Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University/ISC: On the structuring role of grammaticalized morpho-syntactic features
5:15-5:30 Break
5:30-6:30 Poster session 1
  • Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango
  • Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions
  • Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean
  • Laura Rimell, New York University: Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis
  • Jonathan Brennan, New York University: Only, Finally
  • Jon Nissenbaum, McGill University: Decomposing Resultatives: Two kinds of restitutive readings with Again
  • Kristín Jóhannsdóttir & Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia: Future in a supposedly tenseless language
  • Stefan Hinterwimmer, Humboldt University of Berlin: If vs. when, wenn vs. als: microvariation in the semantics of conditional and temporal complementizers in English and German
6:30-7:30 Invited speaker
  Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Spellout, phrase stress, and the prosodization of verbs
  Chair: Jennifer Cole, UIUC
 
SATURDAY, October 14
9:00-9:30 Breakfast  
Main sessions 3 and 4 are held in parallel
9:30-11:00 Main session 3: Phonology (Reading Room)
  Chair: Chilin Shih, UIUC
  • Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Phonotactic Learning and Phonological Typology
  • Jeffrey Heinz, University of California, Los Angeles: Learning Unbounded Stress Systems Via Local Inference
  • Lisa Shiozaki, University of Massachusetts, Amherst : Category and Position as Correlates in Determining Patterns of Default Accentuation in Japanese: Evidence from Nonce Words
9:30-11:00 Main session 4: Syntax
  Chair: Elabbas Benmamoun, UIUC
  • Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut: wollP: Where syntax and semantics meet
  • Xuan Di, Universitetet i Tromsø: Syntactic Evidence for Tense Heads in Mandarin Chinese (Beijing Dialect)
  • Shin Fukuda, University of California, San Diego: The projection of telicity in Vietnamese
11:00-11:30 Break  
Main sessions 5 and 6 are held in parallel
11:30-1:00 Main session 5: Phonology (Reading Room)
  Chair: Zsuzsanna Fagyal, UIUC
  • Andrew Martin, University of California, Los Angeles: The Correlation of Markedness and Frequency: Emergent or Innate?
  • Adam Wayment, Luigi Burzio, Donald Mathis & Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University: Harmony versus Distance in Phonetic Enhancement
  • Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe College Weak Derived Environment Effect
11:30-1:00 Main session 6: Syntax
  Chair: Rakesh Mohan Bhatt, UIUC
  • Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa: The syntax of abstract and concrete finals in Ojibwe
  • Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Stanford University: Monotonicity at the lexical semantics-morphosyntax interface
  • Florian Schäfer, University of Stuttgart: Middles as Voiced Anticausatives
1:00-2:30 Lunch break  
2:30-3:30 Invited speaker  
  J. Kathryn Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Reaching Agreement  
  Chair: Silvina Montrul, UIUC
3:30-3:45 Break  
3:45-5:15 Special session:  
  Syntactic Theory & Psycholinguistics  
  Chair: Jerome Packard, UIUC
  • Keir Moulton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Small Antecedents: Syntax or Pragmatics?  
  • Christina Kim, University of California, Los Angeles: Structural and Thematic Information in Sentence Production  
  • Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester: The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives: Structural and non-structural information  
5:15-5:30 Break  
5:30-6:30 Poster session 2  
  • Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap
  • Andrea Cattaneo, New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication
  • Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish
  • Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House!
  • Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications
  • Tomoyuki Yabe, CUNY Graduate Center: Applicative Constructions and the Remerge of a Functional Preposition
  • Candice Cheung Chi Hang, University of Southern California: An ATB account of Chinese bare conditionals
  • Miki Obata, University of Michigan: How Well Features Match: On the Disappearance of Superiority Effects
  • Chyan-an Arthur Wang, New York University: Sluicing and Resumption
  • Keun Young Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Quantified Noun Phrases in a Head-Final Language
  • Oana Savescu Ciucivara, New York University: Hungry Experiencers
6:30-7:30 Invited speaker  
  Peter Lasersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Relative Truth, Speaker Commitment, and Control of Implicit Arguments  
  Chair: Roxana Girju, UIUC
8:30 DINNER

SUNDAY, October 15  
9:30-10:00 Breakfast  
10:00-11:00 Invited speaker  
  Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz: Verbs of Existence and the Definiteness Effect  
  Chair: Richard Sproat, UIUC
11:00-11:30 Break  
Main sessions 7 and 8 are held in parallel
11:30-1:00 Main session 7: Semantics (Reading Room)
  Chair: Peter Lasersohn, UIUC
  • Youri Zabbal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: A Semantics for Free Choice Indifference in French
  • Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS Paris VII & Alda Mari, CNRS Institut Jean Nicod: Constraints on quantificational domains: generic plural `des'-indefinites in French
  • Sarah Hulsey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: An argument from gapping for a Hamblin semantics for disjunction
11:30-1:00 Main session 8: Syntax
  Chair: Eyamba G. Bokamba, UIUC
  • Seth Cable, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Wh-Fronting is a By-Product of Q-Movement: Evidence from Tlingit
  • Marijana Marelj, Utrecht University: A Left Branch Extraction Perspective on Bound Variables and Pronoun Insertion Strategy
  • Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut: What will you have, DP or NP?
1:00-2:00 Business meeting

 

ALTERNATE SPEAKERS
Phonology
• Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango
• Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap
Semantics
• Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications
Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics
• Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions
Syntax
• Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean
• Andrea Cattaneo, New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication
• Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish
• Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House!

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