Every year the graduate students of the Linguistics Department of the University of Maryland organize a linguistics workshop focusing on a different aspect of language. The goal of this year's MayFest is to bring together researchers from various disciplines to discuss the use of hierarchy and flat structures in language.
MayFest 2007 is taking concrete shape! Find below the schedule and the topics of the talks.
For the abstracts and updated information on accommodation please visit http://ling.umd.edu/events/Mayfest/2007/. Group discount rates are available but need to be booked by 4/30.
MayFest is free but we encourage you to register online to give us an idea about the actual number of participants.
Schedule
Friday, May 11 8:30 - 9:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:30 - 9:35 Welcome
9:35 - 10:45 Language structure, depth, and processing Edward Stabler
10:50 - 12:00 Finite-state linguistic structure building Terence Langendoen
12:00 - 1:35 Lunch
1:35 - 2:45 No derivation without representation Robert Chametzky
2:50 - 4:00 On Datives in Japanese Richard Larson and Naomi Harada
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Discussion Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka
7:30 MayFest Reception Paul Pietroski's house
Saturday, May 12
8:30 - 9:30 Breakfast
9:35 - 10:45 Does grammar ''see'' structure? The view from Direct Compositionality Pauline Jacobson
10:50 - 12:00 Discovering Syntactic Deep Structure via Bayesian Statistics Jason Eisner
12:00 - 1:35 Lunch
1:35 - 2:45 Recursive Generalization vs. Recursive Representation in Prosody Michael Wagner
2;50 - 4:00 Syntax Without Structure-Dependent Rules: Merging MOVE and MERGE Mark Steedman
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Discussion Amy Weinberg and Bill Idsardi
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