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abelard.arizona.edu>West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVIII The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18, will be held at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, April 8-11th. All talks will be held on the second floor of the Student Union Building, which is located on the Main Mall (University Avenue) of the University. PROGRAM Thursday April 8th 7-9pm Registration, Plaza Hotel Friday April 9th 7:00am Registration, Student Union 8:15 am Welcoming remarks, Tom Bever. Senior Ballroom Session A: Senior Ballroom(chair:Mario Montalbetti) 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 (chair: Diana Archangeli) 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 (chair: Michael Hammond) 10:15 Compensatory lengthening as coalescence: analysis and implications Meghan Sumner SUNY at Stonybrook 10:45 Object asymmetries and their morphophonological reflexes Amanda Seidl, UPenn 11:15 The inadequacy of the root: output-output correspondence in Modern Hebrew Adam Sherman UCSC Session D: Senior Ballroom (chair: Antxon Olarrea) 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 11:45-1:15 Lunch Break Session E: Senior Ballroom (chair: tba) 1:15 Modal verbs must be raising verbs Susi Wurmbrand McGill & UQAM 1:45 Stripping and 'sluicing' in Japanese and some implications Teruhiko Fukaya & Hajime Hoji USC 2:15 Temporal adjectives and the structure of possessive DPs Richard Larson & Sungeun Cho, SUNY at Stonybrook Session F: room 256 (chair: Daniel Everett) 1:15 Reduplication and prosodic misalignment Liina Pylkknen, MIT 1:45 Unfaithful bases and syncope in Tohono O'odham reduplication. Colleen Fitzgerald, SUNY at Buffalo 2:15 A-Templatic reduplication in Thompson River Salish Gail Coelho, UTexas at Austin 2:45-3:00 Coffee Break Session G: Room 256 (chair: Ted Fernald) 3:00 Psych-adjectives and semantic selection Idan Landau, MIT 3:30 Extraposition and scope: a case for overt QR Danny Fox, Harvard, and Jon Nissenbaum, MIT 4:00 Durative adverbials for result states Christopher Pinon, UDuesseldorf 4:30 Tough movement and semantic connectivity Mike Calcagno, Tuebingen Panel Disc: Is language derivational? Part 1 3-3:45 T-to-C Movement: Causes and Consequences David Pesetsky, MIT and Esther Torrego UMass, Bos. 3:45-4:30 Additional WH effects and the direction of tree construction Norvin Richards, Kanda University 4:30-5:15 Decomposition and combination in the mental lexicon: psycholinguistic perspectives William Marslen-Wilson, Cambridge U, 5:15-5:45 Commentary on afternoon talks Robert May, UCI 5:45-7:15 Dinner Break Session H: Room 256 (chair: tba) 7:15 Predicative and non predicative verb particle constructions and the role of aspect Mikael Vinka, McGill. 7:45 Raising without infinitives and the nature of agreement Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS Berlin Elena Anagnostopoulou, UCrete 8:15 Multiple I-checking, the EPP and inverse voice in Innu-aimn Phil Branigan & Marguerite MacKenzie, MUN 8:45 A syntactic derivation of Semitic verbs Edit Doron, UCSC & Hebrew U of Jerusalem Panel Disc: Is language derivational? Part 2 7:15-8:00 Reduplicative identity in Chaha Michael Kenstowicz and Degif Petros MIT 8:00-8:45 Phonological opacities William Idsardi, Delaware 8:45-9:30 title TBA Paul Kiparsky, Stanford 9:30-10:00 Commentary on evening talks Stephen Anderson, Yale Saturday, April 10th Session I: Arizona Ballroom (chair: David Pesetsky) 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 Wh-movement? Maire Noonan, YorkU 10:30 Indexical pronouns as bound variables Murat Kural Inquizit Tech. & Georges Tsoulas UYork Session J: Room 256: (chair: Jane Hill) 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 _ structure: evidence from Amazonia Daniel Everett, UPitt 10:30 At-will spoonerisms and vowel length in Finnish Heli Harrikari, UMass/UHelsinki 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break Session K: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Martha McGinnis) 11:15 Long-distance agreement in Tsez Eric Potsdam, Yale & Maria Polinsky, UCSD 11:45 A reconsideration of unaccusativity in ergative alternations Mikinari Matsuoka McGill 12:15 Case features and case particles Dong-Whee Yang, Seoul NatU Session L: Room 256 (chair: Andrew Barss) 11:15 Two views of Polish reflexives Anna Lubowicz, UMass 11:45 Unified semantics of mosts Katsuhiko Yabushita, UTexas at Austin, Naruto UEduc 12:15 Manner in dative alternation Manfred Krifka, UTexas, Austin 12:45 Properties as arguments Miriam Englehardt, MIT 1:15-1:20 Business Meeting 1:20-2:30 Lunch Break Session M: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Andrew Carnie) 2:30 Language change and the verb second position in Early Irish Cathal Doherty, Univ College Dublin 3:00 Expletives and existentials in Early Middle English Alexander Williams, UPenn 3:30 Binding domains and minimalist features Elly van Gelderen, ASU Session N: Room 256 (chair Keren Rice) 2:30 Same edge alignment with opposite edge effects Nathan Sanders UCSC 3:00 Interaction of tone and stress in Seoul and Chonnam Korean Eon-Suk Ko, UPenn 3:30 A multiplanar account of voice-tone interaction Mary Bradshaw, OSU 4:00-4:15 Coffee Break Session O: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Judith Aissen) 4:15 Verbal classifiers as heads of functional projections: Evidence from ASL Diane Brentari & Elena Benedicto, PurdueU. 4:45 Inflection is syntactic: Evidence form Salish possessives Henry Davis, Martina Wiltschko, UBC 5:15 The morphosemantics of object case in Kannada Jeffrey Lidz, UPenn Session P: Room 256 (chair: Terry Langendoen) 4:15 Subject and object coordination in HPSG Michelle Moosally, UHouston-Downtown 4:45 Combien-extraction in dynamic montague grammar. Martin Honcoop, UCLA 5:15 A comprehensive LMT analysis of three Hungarian participles Tibor Laczk, Stanford/KossuthU 4-6:15 Poster Session Arizona Gallery 8:00 -? Party, Gentle Ben's Brewpub. University Ave. Sunday April 11 Special Session -Arizona Ballroom The Importance of the Study of Native American Languages to Linguistic Theory: The Contributions of Ken Hale 8:00-8:30 Coffee; brief opening remarks, Jane Hill, UArizona. 8:30-8:50 Navajo conditional interpretations Theodore Fernald, Swarthmore; Ellavina Perkins, NLA, and Paul Platero, Navajo Nation. 8:50-9:10 Person and point of view in Navajo discourse complements Margaret Speas, UMass 9:10-9:30 Individual and stage level predication and the Navajo classificatory verbs MaryAnn Willie, UArizona 9:30-9:50 The Navajo prolongative in lexical structure Carlota Smith, UTexas, Austin 9:50-10:10 Head-internal relative clauses in Dogrib Leslie Saxon, UVic 10:10-10:25 Break 10:25-10:45 Another look at the Athapaskan y-/b- pronouns, Keren Rice, UToronto. 10:45-11:05 Another perspective on Navajo inverse, Judith Aissen, UCSC 10:45-11:05 Datives and argument hierarchies, Eloise Jelinek, UArizona 11:05-11:25 On the nature of switch reference, Lynn Nichols, Harvard 11:25-11:45 The features LABIAL and ROUND in Tohono O'odham, Jane Hill, UArizona 11:45-12:05 Reading words: efforts in American Indian language literacy development, Ofelia Zepeda, U Arizona 12:05-12:45 Concluding remarks, Kenneth Hale, MIT ALTERNATE SPEAKERS SYNTAX: Subject and adjunct island 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 island 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 Ordonez & Arhonto Terzi, UIUC Locative inversion and optional featuers Jeong-Seok Kim, KoreaU That-trace effects: a minimalist approach Adam Szczegielniak, 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 , UToronto Not-so-fixed segmentism in reduplication: dissimilation and prespecification 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 Panthare 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, UAutonoma 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. 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