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socrates.berkeley.edu>Conference schedule (Please visit http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ for abstracts of the talks and other conference related information.) 370 Dwinelle Hall University of California, Berkeley 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 More impossible words 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 Ergativity and contact on the Oregon coast: Alsea, Siuslaw, and Coos BREAK 3:30 Coordination, clitic placement, and prosody in Zapotec George Aaron Broadwell, University at Albany, State University of New York 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 Alternatives for Aspectual Particles: The semantics of still and already 9:45 Memorial for Suzanne Fleischman 10:15 Happening gradually Christopher Pinon, Universitaet Duessseldorf 10:45 Event underspecification and aspect marking in Thai Jean-Pierre Koenig and Nuttanart Muansuwan, State University of New York at Buffalo 11:15 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 Autonoma 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 Linguistic vs. metalinguistic intuitions 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 Lezgian Alan C. L. Yu, University of California, Berkeley 7:30 DINNER PARTY!!! Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:30 COFFEE Session I: Aspect 9:00 invited speaker: ANGELIKA KRATZER University of Massachusetts, Amherst Building Statives 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 Jose Ignacio Hualde, Rajka Smiljanic and Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois 2:30 Invited Speaker: SHERMAN WILCOX University of New Mexico Gesture, Icon, and Symbol: The Expression of Modality in Signed Languages 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 A Usage-Based Approach to Children's Syntactic Creativity 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 Aspect, Lexical Semantic Representation, and Argument Expression 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 Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba 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 Reconstructing the History of African American English: New Data on an Old ThemeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue