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Tue Sep 05 2006 Confs: Syntax,Phonology,Morphology/USA Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Karlos Arregi, 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Message 1: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic
Date: 01-Sep-2006 From: Karlos Arregi <karlosuiuc.edu> Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society Short Title: NELS 37 Date: 13-Oct-2006 - 15-Oct-2006 Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Contact: Karlos Arregi Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.nels.uiuc.edu Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: The 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 37 (N37S) Including a General Session, a Poster Session, and Special Sessions on Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics, and the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles October 13-15, 2006 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign NELS 37 PROGRAM AND INFORMATION The NELS 37 Program, registration and updated information is available at the conference website at: http://www.nels.uiuc.edu NELS 37 PROGRAM FRIDAY, October 13 9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 1: SYNTAX Seungwan Ha, Boston University: Contrastive Focus: Licensor for Right Node Raising Youngju Choi & James Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Argument Cluster Coordination and Constituency Test (Non-)Conflicts Kirsten Gengel, University of Stuttgart: Phases and Ellipsis 11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 2: SYNTAX/SEMANTICS Koji Kawahara, University of York: A New Perspective on Japanese Sika-Nai Constructions Masahiko Aihara, University of Connecticut: Japanese Superlative Constructions: Evidence for 'est'-movement Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University: On Locative Empty Pronouns and Anti-Quantifier Zutsu in Japanese 2:30-3:30 INVITED SPEAKER Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam: Creole phonology: No such discipline, but what a lot you can learn from it! 3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY OF PIDGINS & CREOLES Sharon Gerlach, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: A constraint-based analysis of coda consonant reflexes in Haitian Creole Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin: Verb Allomorphy in French-related Creoles Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University/ISC: On the structuring role of grammaticalized morpho-syntactic features 5:30-6:30 POSTER SESSION 1 Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications Keun Young Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Quantified Noun Phrases in a Head-Final Language Jon Nissenbaum, McGill University: Decomposing Resultatives: Two kinds of restitutive readings with Again Gabriella Tóth, University of Szeged: Some Remarks on the Functional Domain of Small Clauses Kristín Jóhannsdóttir & Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia: Future in a supposedly tenseless language Laura Rimell, New York University: Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis Bernhard Schwarz, McGill University: Reciprocal equatives Jonathan Brennan, New York University: Only, Finally 6:30-7:30 INVITED SPEAKER Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Spellout, phrase stress, and the prosodization of verbs SATURDAY, October 14 Main sessions 3 and 4 are held in parallel 9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY (parallel) Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Phonotactic Learning and Phonological Typology Jeffrey Heinz, University of California, Los Angeles: Learning Unbounded Stress Systems Via Local Inference Lisa Siozaki, University of Massachusetts, Amherst : Category and Position as Correlates in Determining Patterns of Default Accentuation in Japanese: Evidence from Nonce Words 9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 4: SYNTAX (parallel) Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut: wollP: Where syntax and semantics meet Xuan Di, Universitetet i Tromsø: Syntactic Evidence for Tense Heads in Mandarin Chinese (Beijing Dialect) Shin Fukuda, University of California, San Diego: The projection of telicity in Vietnamese Main sessions 5 and 6 are held in parallel 11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 5: PHONOLOGY (parallel) Andrew Martin, University of California, Los Angeles: The Correlation of Markedness and Frequency: Emergent or Innate? Adam Wayment, Luigi Burzio, Donald Mathis & Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University: Harmony versus Distance in Phonetic Enhancement Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe College Weak Derived Environment Effect 11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 6: SYNTAX (parallel) Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa: The syntax of abstract and concrete finals in Ojibwe Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Stanford University: Monotonicity at the lexical semantics-morphosyntax interface Florian Schäfer, University of Stuttgart: Middles as Voiced Anticausatives 2:30-3:30 INVITED SPEAKER J. Kathryn Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Reaching Agreement 3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTACTIC THEORY & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Keir Moulton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Small Antecedents: Syntax or Pragmatics? Christina Kim, University of California, Los Angeles: Structural and Thematic Information in Sentence Production Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S.Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester: The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives: Structural and non-structural information 5:30-6:30 POSTER SESSION 2 Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap Andrea Cattaneo, New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House! Roberta D'Alessandro & Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge: Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and spell-out domains Tomoyuki Yabe, CUNY Graduate Center: Applicative Constructions and the Remerge of a Functional Preposition Candice Cheung Chi Hang, University of Southern California: An ATB account of Chinese bare conditionals Miki Obata, University of Michigan: How Well Features Match: On the Disappearance of Superiority Effects Chyan-an Arthur Wang, New York University: Sluicing and Resumption Stefan Hinterwimmer, Humboldt University of Berlin: If vs. when, wenn vs. als: microvariation in the semantics of conditional and temporal complementizers in English and German Oana Savescu Ciucivara, New York University: Hungry Experiencers 6:30-7:30 INVITED SPEAKER Peter Lasersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Relative Truth, Speaker Commitment, and Control of Implicit Arguments 8:00 DINNER SUNDAY, October 15 10:00-11:00 INVITED SPEAKER Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz: Verbs of Existence and the Definiteness Effect Main sessions 7 and 8 are held in parallel 11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 7: SEMANTICS (parallel) Youri Zabbal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: A Semantics for Free Choice Indifference in French Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS Paris VII & Alda Mari, CNRS Institut Jean Nicod: Constraints on quantificational domains: generic plural `des'-indefinites in French Sarah Hulsey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: An argument from gapping for a Hamblin semantics for disjunction 11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 8: SYNTAX (parallel) Seth Cable, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Wh-Fronting is a By-Product of Q-Movement: Evidence from Tlingit Marijana Marelj, Utrecht University: A Left Branch Extraction Perspective on Bound Variables and Pronoun Insertion Strategy Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut: What will you have, DP or NP? 1:00-2:00 BUSINESS MEETING ALTERNATE SPEAKERS PHONOLOGY Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap SEMANTICS Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications SYNTACTIC THEORY & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions SYNTAX Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean Andrea Cattaneo, New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House! 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