Date: 04-Oct-2006
From: Karlos Arregi <karlos uiuc.edu>
Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
Short Title: NELS 37
Date: 13-Oct-2006 - 15-Oct-2006
Location: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 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
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will host NELS 37 on October 13-15.
This year, UIUC Linguistics is celebrating its 40th anniversary. As part of the celebration, we are pleased to present a lecture by Professor Jerry Saddock (University of Chicago) on the day before NELS 37:
In Opposition to the Number Three
Professor Jerrold Sadock
University of Chicago
October 12, 2006
7PM at Illini Union 314A
Information on this event and on NELS 37, including registration, transportation, hotels, and the program, is available at the conference website:
http://www.nels.uiuc.edu
NELS 37 PROGRAM
All sessions will be held at the Levis Faculty Center (on the third floor, unless otherwise noted.)
FRIDAY, October 13
9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 1: SYNTAX
Chair: Karlos Arregi, UIUC
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
Chair: James Yoon, UIUC
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!
Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC
3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY OF PIDGINS & CREOLES
Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC
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
Laura Rimell, New York University: Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis
Jonathan Brennan, New York University: Only, Finally
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
Bernhard Schwarz, McGill University: Reciprocal equatives
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
6:30-7:30 INVITED SPEAKER
Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Spellout, phrase stress, and the prosodization of verbs
Chair: Jennifer Cole, UIUC
SATURDAY, October 14
Main sessions 3 and 4 are held in parallel
9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY (Reading Room)
Chair: Chilin Shih, UIUC
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 Shiozaki, 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
Chair: Elabbas Benmamoun, UIUC
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 (reading room)
Chair: Zsuzsanna Fagyal, UIUC
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)
Chair: Rakesh Mohan Bhatt, UIUC
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
Chiar: Silvina Montrul
3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTACTIC THEORY & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Chair: Jerome Packard, UIUC
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!
Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications
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
Keun Young Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Quantified Noun Phrases in a Head-Final Language
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
Chair: Roxana Girju, UIUC
8:30 DINNER
SUNDAY, October 15
10:00-11:00 INVITED SPEAKER
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz: Verbs of Existence and the Definiteness Effect
Chair: Richard Sproat, UIUC
Main sessions 7 and 8 are held in parallel
11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 7: SEMANTICS (Reading Room)
Chair: Peter Lasersohn, UIUC
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
Chair: Eyamba G. Bokamba, UIUC
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 Rodríuez-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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