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38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
Message 1: 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
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Date: 13-Sep-2007
From: Eric Mathieu <emathieuuottawa.ca>
Subject: 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
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38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
Short Title: NELS 38
Date: 26-Oct-2007 - 28-Oct-2007
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Eric Mathieu
Contact Email: nels38uottawa.ca
Meeting URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~nels38/index.htm
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
NELS 38
Sponsors: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),
Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa
Program, registration, etc:
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~nels38/index.htm
Invited speakers:
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC)
Bruce Hayes (UCLA)
Irene Heim (MIT)
Organizers: Galia Dukova-Zheleva, Fatima Hamlaoui, Keren Tonciulescu,
Maria-Luisa Rivero, Eric Mathieu, Marie-Hélène Côté
Friday October 26, 2007
8:45-9:00 Opening remarks
Main syntax
9:00-9:30 Norvin W. Richards (MIT) Maliseet VP-Ellipsis and the Syntax of
Polysynthesis
9:30-10:00 Pritha Chandra and Atakan Ince (University of Maryland) Genitive
Subject Induced Derivational Islands
10:00-10:30 Franc Marusic and Rok Zaucer (Nova Gorica Polytechnics/ University
of Ottawa) Two Strategies for Combining Adjectives with Indefinite Pronouns
Main Phonology
9:30-10:00
Sara Finley and William Badecker (Johns Hopkins University) Right-to-Left Biases
for Harmony: Evidence from Artificial Grammar
9:30-10:00
Jessica Coon and Gillian Gallagher (MIT) Cooccurence Restrictions, Similarity,
and Correspondence in Chol (Mayan)
10:00-10:30
Bridget Samuels (Harvard University) Searching for Harmony & the Nature of
Phonological Representations
10:30-11:30
Break and Poster Session: Syntax and Phonology
Main Syntax
11:30-12:00
Maziar Toosarvandani (UC Berkeley) Obligatory Movement and Sluicing in a Wh-in
situ Language
12:00-12:30
Jong Un Park (Georgetown University) Word Order Asymmetry between
Korean Raising and Control Constructions
12:30-13:00
Atakan Ince (University of Maryland) Gapping in Turkish
Main Phonology
11:30-12:00
Andries W. Coetzee (University of Michigan) Lexical Frequency and Variation
12:00-12:30
Matt Wolf (UMass, Amherst) Mutation and Learnability in Optimality Theory
12:30-13:00
Katie Tang (UCLA) The Variable Nature of Implosives in Consonant-Tone Interaction
13:00-14:30
Lunch
Main Syntax
14:30-15:00
Luis Vicente (University of Amsterdam) On the Syntax of DP but Coordination
15:00-15:30
Roberta D'Alessandro and Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM) Proper Subset Relation and
Concord: Agreement in Abruzzese Possessive Copular Constructions
15:30-16:00
Ji Young Shim and Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) The Tense of Resultatives - The Case
of Korean
Main Semantics
14:30-15:00
Heather Burnett and David-Étienne Bouchard (UCLA/McGill University) Optionality
in the Mode of Composition and Interpretation of Noun Phrases
15:00-15:30
Elaine Grolla (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) The Saliency Factor in Studies
on the Acquisition of Principle B
15:30-16:00
Tyler Peterson (UBC) Pragmatic Blocking in Gitksan Modals
16:00-17:00
Break and Poster Session: Syntax and Semantics
17:30-18:30
Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC) Invited Speaker Main
18:45-20:30
Reception Café Jazzy
Saturday October 27, 2007
8:00
Coffee/Breakfast
Main syntax
9:00-9:30
Zeljko Boskovic (University of Connecticut) Licensing Negative Constituents and
Negative Concord
9:30-10:00
Gabriela Alboiu and Michael Barrie (York University/ UBC) Phasehood, Case and
Noun Incorporation
10:00-10:30
Sabine Iatridou and Ivy Sichel (MIT/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Negative
Quantifiers and Scope Diminishment
Main semantics
9:00-9:30
Yurie Hara and Robert van Rooij (Kyoto University/University of Amsterdam)
Contrastive Topics Revisited: A Simpler Set of Topic-Alternatives
9:30-10:00
Michael Wagner (Cornell University) A Compositional Theory of Contrastive Topics
10:00-10:30
Keir Moulton (UMass, Amherst) Clausal Complementation and the DOC Paradigm: A
Selection-based Approach
10:30-11:00
Break
Main Syntax
11:00-11:30
Balazs Suranyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, RIL) Subject Islands: Cyclicity
of Derivation and Intermediate Movement to Edges
11:00-11:30
Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University, Japan) The Proper Binding Condition Effect as
a Consequence of Cyclic Linearization
11:30-12:00
Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati (University of Milano Bicocca/Univeristy of
Urbino) Labeling Conflicts: A Theory of Syntactic Labeling and some of its
Consequences on Movement and Binding
11:30-12:00
Ken Hiraiwa (University of Tokyo) The Head-Internal Relativization Parameter: D
and EPP in Gur
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Irene Heim (MIT) Invited Speaker Semantics Workshop
Main Phonology
14:30-15:00
Jason Shaw (NYU) Compensatory Lengthening via Mora Preservation in OT-CC
15:00-15:30
Tanya Slavin (University of Toronto) A New Look at Domains and Phases: Evidence
from Palatalization in Oji-Cree
15:30-16:00
Brett Hyde (Washington University) The Rhythmic Foundations of Nonfinality and
Initial Gridmark
Semantics Workshop
14:30-15:00
Giorgos Spathas (Utrecht University) Gender on Bound Pronouns
15:00-15:30
Andrew Kehler and Daniel Büring (UCSD/UCLA) Be Locally Determined!
15:30-16:00
Tamina Stephenson (UBC) Relativism and the De Se Interpretation of PRO
16:00-16:30
Break
Phonology Workshop
16:30-17:00
Karen Jesney and Anne-Michelle Tessier (UMass, Amherst/University of Alberta)
Gradual Learning and Faithfulness: Consequences of Ranked vs. Weighted Constraints
17:00-17:30
Carlo Geraci (University of Milano Bicocca) Real World and Copying Epenthesis:
The case of Classifier Predicates in Italian Sign Language
17:30-18:00
Paul Boersma and Joe Pater (University of Amsterdam/UMass, Amherst) Gradual
Learning of Phonotactic Constraints
Semantics Workshop
16:30-17:00
Hamida Demirdache and Orin Percus (University of Nantes) When is a Pronoun not a
Pronoun? The case of Resumptives
17:00-17:30
David Schueler (UCLA) World Variable Binding and Beta-Binding
17:30-18:00
Francesca Foppolo (University of Milano Bicocca) Default Preferences in Donkey
Anaphora Resolution
18:00-19:00
Bruce Hayes (UCLA) Invited Speaker Phonology Workshop
20:00
Conference dinner at the Museum of Civilization
Sunday October 28, 2007
8:00 Coffee/Breakfast
Main Syntax
9:00-9:30
Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Florian Schaefer (University of
Stuttgart/University of Crete/University of Stuttgart) PP Licensing in
Nominalizations
9:30-10:00
Shoichi Takahashi and Sarah Hulsey (UMass, Amherst,University of Tokyo/MIT)
Wholesale Late Merger
10:00-10:30
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL) Pre- and Post-focus Leftperipheral Topics in Italian
Main Semantics
9:00-9:30
Kimiko Nakanishi (University of Calgary) Scope of Even: A Cross-Linguistic
Perspective
9:30-10:00
Aynat Rubinstein (UMass, Amherst) Groups in the Semantics of Reciprocal Verbs
10:00-10:30
Alan Bale (MIT) Yet More Evidence for the Emptiness of Plurality
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Invited Speaker Main
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Main Syntax
13:30-14:00
Jessica Coon (MIT) Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-Piping in
Chol Mayan
14:00-14:30
Scott Jackson (University of Illinois) Phases, Nuclear Stress, Information, and
Interpretation
14:30-15:00
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University) Implicit Arguments are Syntactic
Main Semantics
13:30-14:00
Nicholas Fleisher (UC Berkeley) Positive Standards of Comparison
14:00-14:30
Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University) Metalinguistic Comparison in an
Alternative Semantics for Imprecision
14:30-15:00
Christian Ebert, Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of
Bielefeld/University of Osnabrück/Humboldt University Berlin) Embedding
Topic-Comment Structures Results in Intermediate Scope Readings
15:00-15:30
Business meeting, Arts Building, Room 509
Alternates:
Syntax
Florian Schäfer (University of Stuttgart)
- The Oblique-causer Construction across Languages
George Kotzoglou and Spyridoula Varlokosta (University of the Aegean)
- Resumption in Greek Relatives Matching and Copy Reduction
Semantics main:
Masahiko Aihara (University of Connecticut)
- (Un)biased Negative Yes-No Questions in Japanese
Semantics workshop:
María Biezma (UMass, Amherst)
- On the Interpretation of Pronouns in Spanish Imperatives
Phonology main:
Jieun Kim (UCLA)
- Focus Realization: Not by Focus-to-Accent but by Prosodic Structure
Phonology workshop:
Giorgio Magri (MIT)
- Linear Phonotactics
Syntax posters
- Friday, Oct.26, Morning session
Akira Omaki (University of Maryland)
- Verbal Morphology: Return of the Affix Hopping Approach
Calixto Aguero-Bautista (UQAM)
- A Tale of Two Phases
Duk-Ho An (University of Connecticut)
- Right Node Raising and Prosodic Constituency
Heejeong Ko (Seoul National University)
- Multiple Case Marking as Case Sharing: Adverbial vs. Adnominal Case
Heidi Quinn (University of Canterbury)
- Head-movement and Anti-Locality
Hirose, Tomio and Suzuki, Takeru (Kanagawa University/Tokyo Gakugei University)
- Quantified Phrases without NP
Phonology posters
- Friday, Oct.26, Morning session
Abby Spears (University of North Carolina)
- Contrast and Coarticulation. Evidence from the French Vowel /i/
Elham Rohany Rahbar (University of Toronto)
- Vowel Height in Persian
Ingvar Lofstedt (UCLA)
- Perceptually-driven Allomorphy
Marc Ettlinger (UC Berkeley)
- Phonological Chain Shifts during Acquisition: Evidence for Lexical Optimization
Michael Becker (UMass, Amherst)
- From the Lexicon to a Stochastic Grammar
Patrick Liu (Harvard)
- A Metrical Analysis of Siane Tone
Shakuntala Mahanta (Utrecht University)
- Sequential Markedness Constraints and Non-iterativity
Shigeto Kawahara and Yurie Hara (University of Georgia/Kyoto University)
- Hiatus Resolution in Hiroshima Japanese
Syntax posters
- Friday, OCT.26, Afternoon session
Takako Iseda and Norvin Richards (University of Connecticut/MIT)
- Among-sentences
Shigeki Taguchi (University of Connecticut)
- Japanese ECM as Embedded Bare Topicalization
Takeo Kurafuji (University of the Ryukyus)
- Clausal Pied-Piping and Cyclicity of Ellipsis: Evidence from Truncated
Wh-Questions in Okinawan
Vita Markman (Simon Fraser University)
- Applicatives TO, FROM, and AT:on Dative and Locative Possessors in Russian
Wei-wen Roger Liao and Yu-yun Iris Wang (USC/National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Multiple Wh-construction and its Interpretation in Chinese
Youngju Choi and James Yoon (University of Illinois)
- Fragments with and without Articulated Constituents at LF
Semantics posters - Friday, OCT.26, afternoon session
Adrian Brasoveanu (Stanford University)
- Monotonicity as a Consequence of Nominalizing Measures: Evidence from Romanian
Pseudo-Partitives
Calixto Aguero-Bautista and Miguel Marinez (UQAM/Universidad Autonoma de Santo
Domingo)
- A Puzzle about Covariance
Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University)
- Possession in Ability Modality
Elsi Kaiser (USC)
- Exceptional Finnish Reciprocals
Geertje van Bergen and Peter de Swart (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Definiteness and Scrambling in Dutch: where Theory Meets Practice
María Biezma (UMass, Amherst)
- The Consequences of Being Small: Imperatives in Spanish
Peter Alrenga (University of Chicago.)
- Tokens, Types, and Identity
Stefan Hinterwimmer and Sophie Repp (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Fixed Abode. What Topical Indefinites and Wh-terms have in Common
Torgrim Solstad (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung/University of
Stuttgart)
- Event-passives
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