LINGUIST List 12.2591

Wed Oct 17 2001

Confs: Michigan Linguistic Society, Ypsilanti, USA

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Veronica Grondona, MLS Conference Program

	2001 Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society
		 Eastern Michigan University
		 Ypsilanti, Michigan
			October 27, 2001

http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~grondona/mls/


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:05	Welcoming remarks - Alumni Room

Phonology - Alumni Room

9:05 - 9:25	Grover Hudson, Michigan State University
		The Phoneme in Current Phonological Theory

9:25 - 9:45	Eungyong Kang, Cornell University
		Syllabification and Edge-in Epenthesis in Southeastern Pomo

9:45 - 10:10	Coffee Break

Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition - Alumni Room

10:10 - 10:30	Ellen Barton, Wayne State University
		The Explicit Construction of Legal Consciousness as
		Agency: Developing a Relational Orientation Toward the
		Law in the Discourse of a Support Group

10:30 - 10:50	Fallou Ngom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		Sociolinguistic Accoung of Phonological Variations in
		Senegalese First Names

10:50 - 11:10	Hsiang Hua Chang, Michigan State University
		Child acquisition of the perfective aspect marker -le in
		Mandarin Chinese

Syntax - Faculty Room

10:10 - 10:30	Justin M. Fitzpatrick, MIT
		Locality and Movement in the Minimalist Program

10:30 - 10:50	Richard Winters, Indiana University, Bloomington
		Possessor Raising in Spanish: Overt vs. Covert Movement

10:50 - 11:10	John Halliwell, Michigan State University
		Korean -hi passive: syntactic and neurolinguistic
		evidence for movement

11:10 - 11:30	Coffee Break

Syntax/Semantics - Alumni Room

11:30 - 11:50	Juan Martin, Univeristy of Toledo
		On the Spanish adjectival adjective

11:50 - 12:10	Dukkyo Jung, University of Wisconsin at Madison
		Lexical Compounds in Argument Structure

12:10 - 12:30	Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan
		Nonmonotonic Foundations for Lexical Semantics

Phonetics/Phonology - Faculty Room

11:30 - 11:50	Naomi Ogasawara, EMU
		Japanese Rendaku: A Phonetic Investigation

11:50 - 12:10	Michael Appleby and Konstantia Kapetangianni, EMU
		Variation in Glottalization in two British English
		Dialects

12:10 - 12:30	Michael, D. Pasquale, Cornerstone University
		Variation of Voice Onset Time in Quechua-Spanish
		Bilinguals

12:30 - 1:00	Business Meeting - Alumni Room

1:00 - 2:00	Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 	Keynote Address - Alumni Room
		Colin Phillips, University of Maryland

3:00 - 3:20 	Coffee Break

Syntax - Alumni Room

3:20 - 3:40	Epstein, Samuel David, University of Michigan and
		T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University
		Rule Applications as Cycles in a Level-Free System

3:40 - 4:00	Franca Ferrari, New York University
		Hybrid Nouns and Agreement

4:00 - 4:20	Break

Language Contact, Historical Linguistics, Morphology - Alumni Room

4:20 - 4:30	Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan
		Linguistic Areas in Africa

4:30 - 4:50	Marc Pierce, University of Michigan
		Prosody and Siever's Law in Gothic: A Reply to Kim

4:50 - 5:10	Monika Rathert, Universitaet Tuebingen
		The Distrubution of Inflectional ge- in German Complex Verbs

5:10	Reception for Conference Attendees