LINGUIST List 11.846

Wed Apr 12 2000

Confs: Israeli Association for Theoretical Ling (IATL)

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1. Jeannette C. Schaeffer, Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) - Conf 16

Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL)
Conference 16, Tel Aviv University
Monday/Tuesday, June 12/13, 2000 

Program

 Monday, June 12, 2000

 09:00 - 09:30		Registration
 09:30 - 10:30 	Henk van Riemsdijk - Invited Speaker
 	Tilburg University
 	To be announced
 10:30 - 11:10 	Monika Rathert
 		University of Tuebingen
 		Syllable-Structure and Stress in Estonian
 11:10 - 11: 30 	Coffee Break
 11:30 - 12:10 	Jay Rifkin
 		MIT
 		If Only!
 12:10 - 12:50 	Nirit Kadmon
 		Tel-Aviv University
 		Contrastive Topics and the Focal Structure of Questions
 12:50 - 14:50 	Lunch and Business Meeting
 14:50 - 15:30 	Idan Landau
 		Ben-Gurion University
 		On Neg-in-Comp and Neg-to-Comp
 15:30 - 16:10 	Lidia Lonzi
 		University of Milan
 		Argument Control in Italian Expletive Constructions as
 Inverted Chain Control
16:10 - 16:50 		Natalia Strahov
 		Ben-Gurion University
 		A Scrambling Analysis of Russian Wh-Questions
 16:50 - 17:20 	Coffee Break
 17:20 - 18:00 	Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
 			The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford 
 University
 		Resolving Thematic Hierarchy Conflicts
 18:00 - 18:40 	Tanya Reinhart
 		Tel-Aviv University
 		Experiencing Derivations


Tuesday, June 13, 2000

 09:30 - 10:30 	Barbara Partee - Invited Speaker
 		University of MMassachusetts, Amherst
 		To be announced
 10:30 - 11:10 	Fred Landman
 		Tel-Aviv University
 		Predicate-Argument Mismatches and the Adjectival 
 Theory of Indefinites
 11:10 - 11: 30 	Coffee Break
 11:30 - 12:10 	Hagit Borer
 		University of Southern California
 		The Grammar Machine
 12:10 - 12:50 	Clara Levelt
 		Free University, Amsterdam
 		Schwa-Schma: The Gradual Acquisition of Schwa by Dutch
 Children
 12:50 - 14:30 	Lunch
 14:30 - 15:10 	Susan Rothstein
 		Bar-Ilan University
 			The Semantics of Secondary Predication: 
 Depictives and Resultatives
 15:10 - 15:50 	Adam Prezpiorkowski
 	Ohio State University
 		Predicate Case Agreement with Quantifier Phrases in 
 Polish
 15:50 - 16:30 	Valentina Bianchi
 		Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
 			On Finiteness and Nominative Case Licensing
 16:30 - 17:00 	Coffee Break
 17:00 - 17:40 	Artemis Alexiadou, Liliane Haegeman, and Melita Stavrou
 		U. Potsdam/AUTH, University of Lille, and AUTH
 		On DP-Internal Head Movement and Noun Ellipsis
 17:40 - 18:40 	Michael Brody - Invited Speaker
 	University College London and Hungarian Academy
 of Sciences
 	To be announced

ALTERNATES: (unranked, at this point)

 Ralf Vogel, University of Stuttgart
 Janine Graziano-King, Teachers' College, Columbia University
 Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel-Aviv University
 Joachim Wermter, Indiana University



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Jeannette C. Schaeffer, Ph.D.				
Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics	
Ben Gurion University of the Negev			
P.O. Box 653				
Beer Sheva 84105, ISRAEL
Phone (W): +972-7-646 1118
Fax (W): +972-7-647 2907
Phone (H): +972-7-610 6558