LINGUIST List 12.269

Thu Feb 1 2001

Confs: 2001 TLS - Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

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1. TLS, 2001 Texas Ling Society - The Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

 2001 Texas Linguistic Society Conference

 The Role of Agreement in Natural Language

 March 2-4, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas


Preliminary Program
(subject to change)

Friday, March 2nd

8:30-9:30am COFFEE & REGISTRATION
9:30-10:00am OPENING REMARKS

Session 1

10:00-10:30am Number, Gender and Person Agreement in Prenominal
Possessives
 Nancy Mae Antrim, UT-El Paso

10:30-11:00am Agreement Patterns in Maasai Possessive DPs
 Gianluca Storto, UCLA

11:00-11:30am Inflected Complementizers and the Licensing of
Non-referential Pro-drop
 Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Universite de Poitiers

11:30-1:00pm LUNCH

Session 2

1:00-1:30pm Lexical, Semantic, and Structural Gender
 Stephen Wechsler, UT-Austin

1:30-2:00pm Quantifier Agreement in Korean
 Sungeon Cho, MIT

2:00-2:30pm D-raising and Asymmetric Agreement in French
 Antonia Androutsopoulou, UCLA
 Manuel Espa�ol Echevarr�a, Universit� Laval

2:30-2:45pm BREAK


Session 3

2:45-3:15pm Hybrid Agreement in English
 Jong-bok Kim, Kyung Hee University
 Kyung-Sup Lim, Dongshin University

3:15-3:45pm The Functional Projections of Split Subjects
 Mary S. Linn, University of Kansas
 Sara Thomas Rosen, University of Kansas

3:45-4:15pm Agreement: Terms and Boundaries
 Greville Corbett, University of Surrey

4:15-4:45pm Towards a Typology of Agreement Phenomena
 Tania Avgustinova, University of Saarland
 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI

4:45-5:00pm BREAK

Keynote Address

5:00-6:00pm Functional Categories and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
 Margaret Speas, UMASS

6:30pm Happy Hour (at Dog & Duck Pub)

Saturday, March 3rd

8:30-9:00am COFFEE & REGISTRATION

Keynote Address

9:00-10:00am The Locality of Agreement
 Hilda Koopman, UCLA

10:00-10:15am BREAK

Session 1

10:15-10:45am Agree, Move and Eliminate the Phrase Impenetrability
Condition
 Sandra Stjepanovic, Kanda University of International Studies
 Shoichi Takahashi, Kanda University of International Studies

10:45-11:15am Defective Feature Copy and Anti-agreement in Language
Production
 Roland Pfau, Johan-Wolfgang-Goethe University

11:15-11:45am Resumptive Strategies, Hyperraising and Left-branch
Violations as Effects of Anti-agreement
 Cedric Boeckx, UCONN

11:45-1:00pm LUNCH

Session 2

1:00-1:30pm Adjectival Agreement and the Individual-Event Distinction
in Balanta
 Kirsten Fudeman, Ithaca College

1:30-2:00pm Agreement, Specificity Effects, and Phrase Structure in
Rural Palestinian Arabic Existential Constructions
 Fredrick M. Hoyt, UT-Austin

2:00-2:30pm Morphological and Semantic Plurality in Hebrew
 Ron Artstein, Rutgers University

2:30-3:00pm A Morphological and Pragmatic Approach to Korean Partial
Honorific Agreement
 In-Cheol Choi, UT-Austin

3:00-3:15pm BREAK

Session 3

3:15-3:45pm Agreement Features in Sentence Processing: A
Sentence-matching Study on Subject-verb and Noun Phrase Internal Agreement 
in German
 Ulrike Jansen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
 Sonja Eisenbeiss, Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics
 Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet


3:45-4:15pm Aspects of Agreement: Evidence that Agreement Morphology
and Aspectual Distinctions are Acquired Independently by Child L2 Learners
 Tania Ionin, MIT

4:15-4:45pm Partial Agreement and Attraction by F[person]
 Ivy Sichel, CUNY

4:45-7:00pm DINNER

7:00-11:00pm TLS Party

Sunday, March 3rd

8:30-9:00am COFFEE & REGISTRATION

Keynote Address

9:00-10:00am The Two Faces of Agreement
 Sandra Chung, UC-Santa Cruz

10:00-10:15am BREAK

Session 1

10:15-10:45aam The Optionality of Agreement Phrase: Evidence from
Signed Languages
 Christian Rathmann, UT-Austin

10:45-11:15am French Object Agreement with Restructuring Verbs
 Eric Mathieu, University College London

11:15-11:30am BREAK

Session 2

11:30-12:00pm Displaced Agreement Suffix in Suleimaniya Kurdish: A
Distributed
 Morphology Approach
 Behrad Aghaei, UT-Austin

12:00-12:30pm Feature Movement Approach to Subject Agreement in Korean
 Changguk Yim, Cornell University

12:30-1:00pm CONCLUDING REMARKS


Alternates

 Long-distance Agreement in Hindi
 Rajesh Bhatt, UT-Austin

 The Status of Agreement Phrase in Universal Grammar
 William Earl Grifin, UT-Austin


Anyone interested in attending the conference, or finding out more about
the conference can downlowd more information from the conference web site at:

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2001tls/index.html

or contact the organizers directly at:

tlsuts.cc.utexas.edu