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socrates.berkeley.edu>THE 26TH ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY 370 DWINELLE HALL (LEVEL G/7TH FLOOR OF OFFICE SIDE OF BUILDING) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS FEBRUARY 18-21, 2000 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS 8:30 COFFEE 9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: EMMON BACH, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST BREAK 10:00 Multiple Antipassives in Halkomelem Salish Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University Thomas E. Hukari, University of Victoria 10:30 The semantics of the Salishan suffix *an/n'ak Mercedes Q. Hinkson, Simon Fraser University 11:00 Complex Predicates in Tsafiki Connie Dickinson, University of Oregon LUNCH 12:30 Argument Structure of Klamath Bipartite Stems Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon 1:00 Word Order and Inverse Voice in Isthmus Mixe Julia Dieterman, University of Texas at Arlington 1:30 Aspectual classes and non-agentive morphosyntax in Lowland Chontal Loretta O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara 2:00 Demonstrative words in Passamaquoddy Eve Ng, State University of New York at Buffalo 2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MARIANNE MITHUN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA BREAK 3:30 Coordination, clitic placement, and prosody in Zapotec George Aaron Broadwell, State University of New York at Albany 4:00 Grammaticalization of Olutec motion verbs under areal contact Roberto Zavala, University of Oregon 4:30 Multiple Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut Carrie Gillon, University of British Columbia 5:00 INVITED SPEAKER: JERRY SADOCK UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2000 8:30 COFFEE SESSION I: ASPECT 9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: MANFRED KRIFKA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN BREAK 10:00 Happening gradually Christopher Pinon, Universitat Dusseldorf 10:30 Event underspecification and aspect marking in Thai Jean-Pierre Koenig and Nuttanart Muansuwan, State University of New York at Buffalo 11:00 Event Structure vs. Phasal Structure and Quasi-Discourse Relations Patrick Caudal and Laurent Roussarie, University of Paris 7 LUNCH SESSION II: SYNTAX 12:30 On the topicalizing nature of multiple left-dislocations Eugenia Casielles, Wayne State University 1:00 Markedness and Pronoun Incorporation Han-Jung Lee, Stanford University 1:30 Syntactically-based lexical decomposition: the case of climb revisited Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona 2:00 The go (Particle) and Verb constructions in English Anatol Stefanowitsch, Rice University 2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: ELLEN PRINCE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA BREAK SESSION III: PHONOLOGY 3:30 Probability in phonological generalizations: modeling optional French final consonants Benjamin K. Bergen, UC Berkeley and ICSI 4:00 Sonority-Driven Reduction Katherine M. Crosswhite, University of Rochester 4:30 Prominence, Augmentation, and Neutralization in Phonology Jennifer Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 5:00 Re-examining default-to-opposite stress Matthew K. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara 5:30 Yaka nasal harmony: spreading or segmental correspondence? Rachel Walker, University of Southern California 6:00 Describing Syncretism: Rules of referral after fifteen years Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University ALTERNATE Laryngeal Neutralization in Lezghi Alan C. L. Yu, University of California, Berkeley SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2000 8:30 COFFEE SESSION I: ASPECT 9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: ANGELIKA KRATZER UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST BREAK 10:00 Imperfective Aspect and Event Participants in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Juliet Wai-hong Du, University of Texas at Austin 10:30 From Imperfective to Progressive via Relative Present Elena Maslova, University of Bielefeld 11:00 Between perfective and past: Preterits in Turkic and Nakh-Daghestanian Sergei Tatevosov, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Moscow State University LUNCH SESSION II: PHONETICS 12:30 Compensatory lengthening without moras: A study in phonologization Darya Kavitskaya and Jonathan Barnes, University of California, Berkeley 1:00 Trace of F2 peaks as a quantitative descriptor of aspiration Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin 1:30 What is /l/? Joshua Guenter, University of California, Berkeley 2:00 On the accented/unaccented distinction in western Basque and the typology of accentual systems Jos� Ignacio Hualde, Rajka Smiljanic and Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois 2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: SHERMAN WILCOX UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO BREAK SESSION III: SEMANTICS 3:30 The Need for the Resultative Network Cristiano Broccias, University of Pavia 4:00 A cognitive account of the English meronymic "by" phrase Monica Corston-Oliver, University of California, Berkeley 4:30 Referential Properties of Factive and Interrogative Complements Indicate their Semantics Michael Hegarty, Louisiana State University 5:00 The Distribution of Raising Constructions in French Michel Achard, Rice University 5:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MICHAEL TOMASELLO MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY AT LEIPZIG ALTERNATE Vowel quality and voice quality correlations: A laryngeal account of their origins Graham Thurgood, California State University, Fresno MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2000 8:30 COFFEE SESSION I: ASPECT 9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: BETH LEVIN STANFORD UNIVERSITY BREAK 10:00 The semantics of Russian aspect: Accounting for the uses of the imperfective Esther Wood, University of California, Berkeley 10:30 Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in Guyanese Creole Jack Sidnell, Northwestern University SESSION II: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 11:00 Historical Development of Reported Speech in Chinese Jya-Lin Hwang, University of Hawaii, Manoa 11:30 Gesture, Lexical Words, and Grammar: Grammaticization Processes in ASL Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico LUNCH SESSION III: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1:00 Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi Scott Schwenter and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University 1:30 Relation between gaze, head nodding and aizuti at a Japanese company meeting Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota 2:00 The Korean Modal Marker keyss Revisited: A Marker of Achieved State of Intersubjectivity Kyung-Hee Suh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Kyu-hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University 2:30 Distributed (and Dissolved) Pragmatics Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University 3:00 INVITED SPEAKER: WALT WOLFRAM NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALTERNATE An Auto-Optimal Theory of Grammar: Disjunctive Agreement in Yasin Burushaski Gregory D.S. 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