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frontiernet.net>Northeastern Linguistics Society NELS 32 will be held jointly this year by the City University of New York's Graduate Center and New York University, on 19-21 October. The following is our preliminary program: FRIDAY 10/19 CUNY Grad Center 09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks CUNY 09:15-09:45 Idan Landau (Ben Gurion U/Tel Aviv) A typology of psych passives 09:45-10:15 Liina Pylkkanen (MIT) Root-selecting, Verb-selecting and VoiceP-selecting causatives 10:15-10:45 Asya Pereltsvaig (Tromso) Case and aspect in American Russian: What does American Russian Morphology tell us about syntax? COFFEE/TEA 11:00-11:30 Paula Menendez-Benito (UMass Amherst) Aspect and adverbial quantifiers in Spanish 11:30-12:00 Michela Ippolito (MIT) Presuppositions and implicatures in counterfactuals 12:00-12:30 Yael Sharvit (UConn) The extensionality of 'try' - An event-based analysis LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Christopher Potts (UC Santa Cruz) No vacuous quantification constraints in syntax 14:30-15:00 Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser U) & Maribel Romero (UPenn) Ellipsis in the syntax of alternative questions 15:00-15:30 Elena Guerzoni (MIT) Even NPIs in questions COFFEE/TEA 15:45-16:15 Carolina Gonzalez (USC) The effect of prosody on glottal stop deletion in Capanahua 16:15-16:45 Anthi Revithiadou (Aegean University) Left-right asymmetries in prosodic parsing: A case study from Greek and its dialects 16:55-17:55 Invited Speaker: Janet Dean Fodor Special Theme: Prosodic Phrasing Title tba SATURDAY 10/20 NYU Main Building 09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks NYU 09:15-09:45 Line Hove Mikkelsen (UC Santa Cruz) Ambiguous copula sentences in Danish: Evidence against the inversion hypothesis 09:45-10:15 Andrew Simpson (SOAS) & Zoe Wu (USC) Cyclic Spell-Out and the size of phases 10:15-10:45 Winfried Lechner (Tubingen) Deriving PS-paradoxes by conditions on Merge COFFEE/TEA 11:00-11:30 Andrea Rackowski (MIT) Subject and specificity: The case of Tagalog 11:30-12:00 Felicia Lee (UBC Vancouver) Anaphoric R-expressions: 'Bound' names as bound variables 12:00-12:30 Ivy Sichel (Hebrew U Jerusalem) Demonstrative anaphora and indexical representation LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Jonathan Barnes (UC Berkeley) Domain-initial strengthening and the phonetics and phonology of positional neutralization 14:30-15:00 Daniel Currie Hall (Toronto) A source-filter model for generative metrics 15:00-15:30 K. David Harrison, Mark Dras & Berk Kapicioglu (UPenn) Agent-based modeling and microparametric variation: Modeling the evolution of vowel harmony COFFEE/TEA 15:45-16:15 Thomas McFadden (UPenn) The morphosyntax of Finno-Ugric Case-marking: A DM account 16:15-16:45 Alison Henry (Ulster) Microparametric variation in the syntax of expletives: Belfast English and standard English 16:55-17:55 Invited Speaker: Richard Kayne Special Theme: Microparametric Variation Title tba SUNDAY 10/21 NYU Main Building 09:15-09:45 John Whitman (Cornell) & Dianne Jonas (Yale) Limiting multiple specifiers to the interface 09:45-10:15 Arhonto Terzi (Patras) & Ken Wexler (MIT) A-chains and S-homophones in children's grammar: Evidence from Greek passives 10:15-10:45 Hirohisa Kiguchi & Rozalind Thornton (UMD College Park) Children's understanding of Binding Principle B in ACD constructions COFFEE/TEA 11:00-11:30 Colin Wilson (UCLA) Phonotactic learning with targeted constraints 11:30-12:00 Jeff Mielke (Ohio State) Turkish /h/ deletion: Evidence for the interplay of speech perception and phonology 12:00-12:30 Paul de Lacy (UMass Amherst) Conflation and the expression of scales LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Satoshi Tomioka & Kimiko Nakanishi (UDelaware) Plurals in Japanese 14:30-15:00 Bridget Copley (MIT) A linguistic argument for indeterministic futures 15:00-15:30 L. M. Savoia & M. Rita Manzini (Firenze) Northern Italian NEG adverbs are neither adverbs nor NEG Alternate Papers Syntax Zeljko Boskovic (UConn) Expletives don't move Benjamin Bruening (MIT) Raising to object and phase edges Norvin Richards (MIT) Lowering and cyclicity: Attraction by X from SpecXP Semantics Richard Larson & Miyuki Sawada (SUNY Stony Brook) Adjunct clauses, presupposition and root transformations Andrew Nevins (MIT) Counterfactuality without past tense and the morphology-pragmatics interface Martin Hackl (UMD College Park) The ingredients of essentially plural predicates Phonology Bert Vaux (Harvard) Dispersion Theory and surface contrast Adam Ussishkin (U Arizona) & Andrew Wedel (UCSC) Neighborhood density and the root-affix distinction Rachel Walker (USC) Yuhup prosodic morphology and a case of augmentation Prosodic Phrasing Masanori Deguchi & Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Indiana U) Prosody in wh-questions Jocelyn Cohan, Hugo Quene, Rene Kager & Sieb Nooteboom (Utrecht) Heavy constituent extraposition: Experimental evidence for parallel processing Microparametric Variation Thomas J. Conners (Yale) On pronoun classes and passive constructions in Indonesian dialects Gulsat Aygen (Harvard) C as a Case licenser in Turkish, Kazakh and Tuvan: Implications for Case theory Poster Sessions FRIDAY 10/19 CUNY Graduate Center Jocelyn Cohan, Hugo Quene, Rene Kager & Sieb Nooteboom (Utrecht) Heavy constituent extraposition: Experimental evidence for parallel processing Masanori Deguchi & Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Indiana U) Prosody in wh-questions Yoonjung Kang (SUNY Stony Brook) Adaptation of English postvocalic word-final stops to Korean loanwords Steve McCartney (UT Austin) Binary bases of ternarity Adam Ussishkin (U Arizona) & Andrew Wedel (UCSC) Neighborhood density and the root-affix distinction Bert Vaux (Harvard) Dispersion Theory and surface contrast SATURDAY 10/20 NYU Main Building Masahiro Akiyama (Ehime U) Locative Inversion and economy: Evidence for global economy Artemis Alexiadou (U Stuttgart) Nominal vs. verbal -ing constructions and the development of the English progressive Karlos Arregi (MIT) Word order and focus in Basque Gulsat Aygen (Harvard) C as a Case licenser in Turkish, Kazakh and Tuvan: Implications for Case theory Rajesh Bhatt (UT Austin) & Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Variable height of adjunction and LF-licensing of degree complements Cedric Boeckx & Boosok Kang (UConn) An argument-adjunct asymmetry at the word level Zeljko Boskovic (UConn) Expletives don't move Benjamin Bruening (MIT) Raising to object and phase edges Thomas J. Conners (Yale) On pronoun classes and passive constructions in Indonesian dialects Arhonto Terzi (Patras) Locative prepositions as DPs SUNDAY 10/21 NYU Main Building Martin Hackl (UMD College Park) The ingredients of essentially plural predicates Tania Ionin (MIT) The one boy who kissed every girl: Scope and discourse function in Russian Edit Jakab (UQAM) The conditional expressed by Russian and English imperatives Elsi Kaiser (UPenn) Case, disjunction and focus Min-Joo Kim (UMass Amherst) Accusative adverbials in Korean: Delimiting phrase and Case Jeong-Shik Lee (Wongkwang U) Comparative pseudogapping Seth A. Minkoff (UMass Boston) Why some objects can't be more animate than some subjects Andrew Nevins (MIT) Counterfactuality without past tense and the morphology-pragmatics interface Norvin Richards (MIT) Lowering and cyclicity: Attraction by X from SpecXP Michael Terry (UMass Amherst) The simple past and present perfect in African-American English For more information, visit the NELS sites: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/nels.htm (CUNY) http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/events/nels/nels32.htm (NYU)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue