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abelard.douglass.Arizona.EDU>WCCFL18 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) The University of Arizona Tucson AZ April 8-11, 1999 Thursday April 8th 6-8pm Registration, Plaza Hotel Friday April 9th 7:00am Registration, Student Union 8:15 am Welcoming remarks Senior Ballroom Session A: Senior Ballroom 8:30 How to get a free ride? Additional scrambling effects and the principle of minimal compliance. Cedrix Boeckx & Koji Sugisaki, UConn 9:00 Resurrecting scrambling John F. Bailyn, SUNY at Stonybrook 9:30 Evidence for feature-driven A-scrambling Martha McGinnis, UPenn Session B: Rincon Room 8:30 Phonetic basis of coronal phonotactics Yoonjung Kang, MIT 9:00 Consonant clusters in Tsou and their theoretical implications Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn 9:30 Obstruent neutralization in Andalusian Spanish Chip Gerfen, UNC at Chapel Hill 10:00-10:15 Break Session C: Rincon Room 10:15 A syntactic derivation of Semitic verbs Edit Doron, Hebrew UJerusalem 10:45 Object asymmetries and their morphophonological reflexes Amanda Seidl, UPenn 11:15 The inadequacy of the root Adam Sherman UCSC Session D: Senior Ballroom 10:15 Structural markedness and minimalist checking theory Susana Bejar, UToronto 10:45 Phrase-linking meets minimalist syntax Hans-Martin Gaertner UPotsdam 11:15 Right node raising and the LCA Chris Wilder, ZAS Berlin 11:45-1:30 Lunch Break Session E: Senior Ballroom 1:30 Language change and the verb second position in Early Irish Cathal Doherty, Univ College Dublin 2:00 Expletives and existentials in Early Middle English Alexander Williams, UPenn 2:30 Binding domains and minimalist features Elly van Gelderen, ASU Session F: room 256 1:30 The asymmetry of base reduplicant identity Liina Pylknen, MIT 2:00 Unfaithful bases and syncope in Tohono O'odham reduplication. Colleen Fitzgerald, SUNY at Buffalo 2:30 A-Templatic reduplication in Thompson River Salish Gail Coelho, UTexas at Austin 3-3:30 Coffee Break 3:30-6:00 Special Session or Plenary Talk (to be announced-subject to funding) 6:00-7:30 Dinner Break Session G: Senior Ballroom 7:30 Predicative and non predicative verb particle constructions and the role of aspect Mikael Vinka, McGill. 8:00 Raising without infinitives and the nature of agreement Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS Berlin Elena Anagnostopoulou, UCrete 8:30 Multiple I-checking, the EPP and inverse voice in Innu-aimn Phil Branigan & Marguerite MacKenzie, MUN Session H: Room 256 7:30 Psych-adjectives and semantic selection Idan Landau, MIT 8:00 Extraposition and scope: a case for overt QR Danny Fox and Jon Nissenbaum, MIT 8:30 Durative adverbials for result states Christopher Pin, Uduesseldorf 9:00 Tough movement and semantic connectivity Mike Calcagno, Tuebingen Saturday, April 10th Session I: Arizona Ballroom 9:00 On multiple Wh-movement: weak crossover, D- linking, and the third wh-phrase effect. John D. Lewis, McGill 9:30 Cyclic spell-out and the Comp-T effects Toru Ishii, Kitami Inst Tech 10:00 What is the true nature of successive cyclic movement? Maire Noonan, YorkU Session J: Room 256 9:00 A unified mora account of Chuukese Jennifer S. Muller, OSU. 9:30 Where and why do CVC syllables count as heavy Mee-Jin Ahn, UIUC 10:00 The phonology of foot and syllable structure: evidence from Amazonia Daniel Everett, UPitt 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Session K: Arizona Ballroom 10:45 Long-distance agreement in Tsez Eric Potsdam, Yale & Maria Polinsky, UCSD 11:15 A reconsideration of unaccusativity in ergative alternations Makinari Matsuoka McGill 11:45 Case features and case particles Dong-Whee Yang, Seoul NatU Session L: Room 256 10:45 Two views of Polish reflexives Anna Lubowicz, UMass 11:15 Unified semantics of mosts Katsuhiko Yabushita, Naruto Univ of Education 11:45 Manner in dative alternation Manfred Krifka, UTexas, Austin 12:15-12:30 Business Meeting 12:30-2:00 Lunch Break Session M: Arizona Ballroom 2:00 Modal verbs must be raising verbs Susi Wurmbrand McGill & UQAM 2:30 So-called sluicing in Japanese and some implications Teruhiko Fukaya & Hajime Hoji USC 3:00 Temporal adjectives and the structure of possessive DPs Richard Larson & Christine Cho, SUNY at Stonybrook Session N: Room 256 2:00 Same edge alignment with opposite edge effects Nathan Sanders UCSC 2:30 Interaction of tone and stress in Seoul and Chonnam Korean Eon-Suk Ko, UPenn 3:00 A multiplanar account of voice-tone interaction Mary Bradshaw, OSU 3:30-3:45 Coffee Break Session O: Arizona Ballroom 3:45 Verbal classifiers as heads of functional projections: Evidence from ASL Diane Brentari & Elena Benedicto, PurdueU. 4:15 Inflection is syntactic: Evidence form Salish possessives Henry Davis, Martina Wiltschko, UBC 4:45 The morphosemantics of object case in Kannada Jeffrey Lidz, UPenn Session P: Room 256 3:45 Subject and object coordination in HPSG Michelle Moosally, UHouston-Downtown 4:15 Combien-extraction in dynamic montague grammar. Martin Honcoop, UCLA 4:45 A comprehensive LMT analysis of three Hungarian participles Tibor Laczk, Stanford/KossuthU 3:30-5:45 Poster Session Arizona Gallery 8:00 -? Party Sunday April 11 9-11:30 Special Ken Hale Session Senior Ballroom (Judith Aissen, Eloise Jelinek, Mary Willie, Ted Fernald, Ken Hale, Jane Hill, Lynn Nichols, Keren Rice, Lexlie Saxon, Carlota Smith, Peggy Speas, Ofelia Zapeda) 11:30-11:45 Break Session Q: Senior Ballroom 11:45 Compensatory lengthening as coalescence: analysis and implications Meghan Sumner SUNY at Stonybrook 12:15 At-will spoonerisms and vowel length in Finnish Heli Harrikari, UMass/UHelsinki Session R: Rincon Room 11:45 Properties as arguments Miriam Englehardt, MIT 12:15 Indexical pronouns as bound variables Murat Kural UCI & Georges Tsoulas UYork ALTERNATE SPEAKERS SYNTAX: Subject and adjunct islands asymmetries: evidence from syntactic satiation Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender, StanfordU PHONOLOGY: Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based approach. Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU. Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese. Jennifer L. Smith, UMass SEMANTICS: Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted quantification. Josep Quer, UAutonoma Barcelona POSTER SESSION SYNTAX: Subject and adjunct islands asymmetries: evidence from syntactic satiation Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender, StanfordU Sluicing as PF deletion Sandra Stjepanovic, UConn Possessor raising and causatives: a minimalist account of structural and inherent case. Juan Carlos Castillo, UMaryland On adjunct Wh-NPs Masao Ochi & Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn What diachrony tells about English tough-constructions Gwang-Yoon Goh, Ohio State U. Syntax, Semantics, chicken and egg: remarks on the development of English modal auxiliaries Kieran Snyder, UPenn Raising in Icelandic Dianne Jonas, YaleU Reconstruction and linearity in long-distance cleft constructions Mika Kizu & Hidekazu Tanaka, McGill The Yes-No question clitic li placement in Russian Elena Rudnitskaya, CUNY Clitic Combinations Francisco Ordnez & Arhonto Terzi, UIUC Locative inversion and optional featuers Jeong-Seok Kim, KoreaU That-trace effects: a minimalist approach Adam Szczegeilniak, HarvardU PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY: Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based approach. Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU. Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese. Jennifer L. Smith, UMass The behavior of the velar nasal and syllabification Chin Wan Chung & Byung Jin Lim, Indiana Constraining a constraint-based theory Daniel Currie Hall, UToronto Not-so-fixed segmentism in reduplication: dissimilation and respecification in the Turkish emphatic partial reduplication. Alan Yu, UCBerkeley Bare-consonant reduplication in Yokuts Sean Hendricks, UArizona Diminutive bare consonant reduplication in Stl'atl'imcets Sonya Bird, UArizona Featural Optimality Theory: a computational model Andrea Heiberg, UArizona Empty C-slots revisited: the case of the verbal agreement system of Panthre Limbu. Matthew Richardson, YaleU A correspondence theory of morpheme order Paul de Lacy, UMass Size restrictors and prosodic structure in the acquisition of stress Suzanne Curtin, USC Head-dependent asymmetries and the root-affix metaconstraint. Anthi Revithiadou, UMass SEMANTICS & SYNTAX/SEMANTICS: Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted quantification. Josep Quer, UAutnoma Barcelona Determiner copulas in conditionals and relatives Barbara Citko, SUNY at Stonybrook/MIT The effects of focus on argument structure: depictives. vs resultatives Bokyung Noh, UTexas at Austin The focusing negative mhaih in Cantonese-Chese: a look at contrastive and metalinguistic negation. Juliet Wai-hong Du, UTexas at Austin Pair-quantificational operator Tokoro-clause Hironobu Hosoi, McGill - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Please mail to WCCFL18 Department of Linguistics Douglass 200E University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 Faculty/Employed all sessions, including party $45.00 Student/Unemployed all sessions, including party $20.00 Faculty/Employed Per-day fee (does not include party) $15.00 circle day(s) Fri Sat Sun Student/Unemployed Per-day fee (does not include party) $7.00 circle day(s) Fri Sat Sun Party only (cost includes food and entertainment, there will be a cash bar for drinks) $5.00 Total Enclosed __________ Name Address Affiliation Phone Number Email address Please make US$ checks/money orders payable to The University of Arizona (sorry, we do not accept cash or credit cards)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue