LINGUIST List 10.218

Wed Feb 10 1999

Confs: 23rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Cassandre Creswell, 23rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium

23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics

Information about the conference and any schedule modifications can be
found on our web page:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/

Schedule of Talks:
Saturday, February 27

Registration starts at 8:30 AM

Session 1: Special Session I

9:00-9:25 Farida Cassimjee & Charles W. Kisseberth, Benedict College & Tel Aviv
 University
A conspiracy argument for OT from Emakhuwa dialectology

9:25-9:50 Eric Bakovic, Harvard University 
Assimilation to the unmarked

9:50-10:15 Ben Hermans, Tilburg University 
A constraint based analysis of an opacity effect

10:15-10:25 break

Session 2: Syntax I

10:25-10:50 Cedric Boeckx, University of Connecticut 
Decomposing French questions

10:50-11:15 Cathal Doherty, University College, Dublin 
Verbal morphology and clausal projections in early Irish

11:15-11:40 Kook-Hee Gill, University of Edinburgh 
The long-distance anaphora conspiracy: The case of Korean

11:40-12:05 William McClure, Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center 
Floating Japanese classifiers

12:05-1:00 lunch break

Session 3: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics

1:00-1:25 Kristin M. Eide and Tor A. Afarli, Norwegian University of Science
 and Technology
Semantically charged syntax and the construction of meaning

1:25-1:50 Barbara Citko, SUNY Stony Brook/MIT 
Conditionals and relatives

1:50-2:15 Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal 
`Punctuality' and verb semantics

2:15-2:40 Jeanette Gundel, University of Minnesota/Engelsk Institutt 
Topic, Focus, and the grammar-pragmatics interface

2:40-3:00 break

Session 4: Language Acquisition
3:00-3:25 Miho Fujiwara, Georgetown University 
Acquisition of default inflectional suffix: Japanese adjectivals

3:25-3:50 Natalie Batman-Ratyosan & Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University 
What Turkish acquisition tells us about underlying word order and scrambling

3:50-4:15 Elena Gavruseva & Rosalind Thornton, University of Iowa 
Possessor extraction in child English: A Minimalist account

4:15-4:30 break

Invited speaker

4:30-5:30 Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts 
Self-action, middles, and reflexive pronouns

Sunday, February 28

Session 5: Special Session II

9:00-9:25 Nila Friedberg, University of Toronto 
Constraints measure metrical intuitions

9:25-9:50 Alexei Kochetov, University of Toronto 
A hierarchy of phonetic constraints on palatality in Russian 

9:50-10:15 Bozena Cetnarowska, University of Silesia/University of
 Massachusetts
Interaction of prosodic and syntactic constraints in English and Polish 
nominals

10:15-10:30 break

Session 6: Syntax II

10:30-10:55 Mikael Vinka, McGill University 
Two types of verb particle constructions

10:55-11:20 Masao Ochi and Tien-Hsin Hsin, University of Connecticut 
The syntax of adjunct wh-NPs

11:20-11:45 J.-R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California 
Two Ways of 'Wide-Scope Taking'

11:45-12:10 Martha McGinnis, University of Pennsylvania 
A-scrambling exists!

12:10-1:15 lunch break

Session 7: Creoles/Syntax

1:15-1:40 Marlyse Baptista, University of Georgia 
On the non-universality of functional projections and the effects on
parametrized variation: evidence from Creoles

1:40-2:05 Kieran Snyder, University of Pennsylvania 
Reflexives and constraints on the borrowing of discourse function: Creoles
and Tahitian French

2:05-2:10 break

Session 8: Phonetics

2:10-2:35 Michelle Minnick-Fox and Kazuaki Maeda, University of Pennsylvania 
Perception and production of American English tense and lax vowels by
Japanese speakers

2:35-3:00 Eon-Suk Ko, University of Pennsylvania 
Phonetics and phonology of vocative chant variation in Korean 

3:00-3:20 break
Session 9: Historical/Sociolinguistics

3:20-3:45 Emily Bender, Stanford University 
Deconstructing register: null objects in English recipes revisited

3:45-4:10 Rajesh Bhatt and Tonia Bleam, University of Pennsylvania/MIT, 
 University of Pennsylvania/Delaware 
(Have)Got

4:10-4:35 Ronald Kim, University of Pennsylvania 
The origin of the Pre-Ossetic oblique case suffix and its implications

4:35-5:00 Bill Labov, University of Pennsylvania 
The role of outliers in linguistic change in progress

End of the Colloquium