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Directory         1.    Charles Yang, 41st Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society Message 1: 41st Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society Date: 20-Sep-2010 From: Charles Yang <charles.yangling.upenn.edu> Subject: 41st Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society E-mail this message to a friend 41st Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society Short Title: NELS41 Date: 22-Oct-2010 - 24-Oct-2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Contact: Charles Yang Contact Email: charles.yangling.upenn.edu Meeting URL: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/nels41/ Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: Plenary Speakers: Noam Chomsky (MIT) William Labov (UPenn) For a detailed program, please see our website (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/nels41/programs/FramesetPrograms.html) and the message below. Program: 8:00 - 9:15 am Breakfast and Registration 9:15 - 9:30 am Opening Remarks Please note: All A sessions will be in the Cohen Hall Auditorium. All B sessions will be in the Cohen Hall Terrace Room. 9:30 - 11:00 am A: Syntax 1 Patterns of Dative-Nominative Alternations Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart), Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete), Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster) The Unintentional Causer in Icelandic Jim Wood (New York University) Head-Movement in Bantu DPs Vicki Carstens (University of Missouri) B: Semantics 1 Epistemic Indefinites Cross-Linguistically Maria Aloni, Angelika Port (University of Amsterdam, ILLC) Deriving Szabolcsi's Generalization from Strengthened Meanings Yasutada Sudo (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) Pragmatic Enrichment and Concessive Scalarity Luka Crnic (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) 11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break 11:30 am - 12:30 pm A: Syntax 1 (cont.) Transitivity in Chol: A New Argument for the Split-VP Hypothesis Jessica Coon (Harvard University), Omer Preminger (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) Object Movement Across Romance Angel Gallego (UAB / UCM) B: Semantics 1 (cont.) Focus Intervention in Declaratives Aviad Eilam (University of Pennsylvania) Perspective Shift of Evidentials in Interrogatives: A Case Study of Korean Evidential Markers Dongsik Lim (University of Southern California) 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Keynote Address Title TBA Noam Chomsky Massachussetts Institute of Technology Location: Cohen Hall Auditorium 3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee break 3:45 - 5:45 pm A: Syntax 2 Lexical vs. Functional: Complex Predicates in Italian Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster), Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) The Structure of Implicit Agents in Passives Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania) Thematic Separation and Spellout Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland) On Passives of Reflexive Verbs and the Nature of (Natural) Reflexivity Floran Schaefer (University of Stuttgart) B: Phonology 1 The Architecture of Derivational OT: Evidence from Icelandic Syncope Mark Norris (University of California, Santa Cruz) The Pathology of Feature-Driven Stress Robert Staubs (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Contextual and Non-Contextual Prosodic Minimality Kevin Ryan (University of California, Los Angeles) Prosodic Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Irish Andrew Dowd (University of California, Santa Cruz 5:45 - 6:45 pm Poster Session Cohen Hall Terrace Room Differential Treatment of Initial Syllables Rears its Head - Becker, Levine, Nevins Re- Prefixation and Talmy's Parameter - Ciucivara, Wood Abolishing the Lapse Asymmetry - Deschenes, Lunden On the Nature of Construal Relations: Complementizer Agreement in Lubukusu -Diercks* Evidence for an Articulated Applicative Structure in German - Georgala Plurality is Distinct from Number Neutrality - Grimm* Locality and Cumulative Complexity Effects in Child Phonology: Evidence from Dutch -Jesney* Experimental Evidence for the Interpretation of Subjunctives - Kapetangianni Perceptual Motivations for Parasitic Restrictions in Vowel Harmony - Kimper* What Does 'Really' Really Mean?: Evidence, Standards, and Probability in Dialogue - Lai Article and Bare Predications - Le Bruyn Locating Linguistic Variation: A Case Study of English Auxiliary Contraction -MacKenzie Small Clause Subjects Do Reconstruct - Moulton* A Clausal Analysis of Dari and Tajik Phrasal Comparatives - O'Connor (Non)-Added Datives in Spanish - Pujalte Reconciling Scrambling Movements with the Duality of Semantics - Struckmeier A Targeted Spreading Imperative for Nasal Place Assimilation - Wilson Island Constraints and Online Dependency Formation Processes - Yoshida, Kazanina, Pablos, Sturt *: Also talk alternates Saturday, October 23rd 8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 - 11:00 am A: Special Session The Unity of Linguistic Methods Invited Speaker Title TBA Gillian Sankoff University of Pennsylvania Language Shift in Apparent Time Maya Ravindranath (University of New Hampshire) Invited Speaker 'Syntactic Variation in the Individual: Models of Switching, Borrowing, and Preferences' Edward Stabler B: Syntax 3 The Hungarian Verb and Constraints on Grammatically-Conditioned Allomorphy Jana Beck (University of Pennsylvania) Overlapping Portmanteaus: Why They Do Not Exist Nina Radkevitch (University of Connecticut/Harvard University) Neutrality vs. Ambiguity in Resolution by Syncretism: Experimental Evidence and Consequences Alya Asarina (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) 11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break 11:30 am - 12:30 pm A: Unity of Linguistic Methods (cont.) Rethinking Transderivationality Thomas Graf (University of California, Los Angeles) Coarse Representations for Phonemic Categories Kristine Yu (University of California, Los Angeles) B: Syntax 3 (cont.) Partial Pro-Drop as Null NP Anaphora Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) The Optionality of EPP in Dholuo Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts, Amherst 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 - 3:45 pm A: Unity of Linguistic Methods (cont.) Invited Speaker Title TBA Jon Sprouse University of California, Irvine Investigating the Relationship Between Syntactic Structure-Building and Semantic Composition Using MEG Jonathan Brennan, Liina Pylkkanen (New York University) Isolation of Independent Processing Factors in Negative Island Contexts Simone Gieselman, Robert Kluender, Ivano Caponigro (University of California, San Diego) B: Posters 3:45 - 4:15 pm Coffee break 4:15 - 5:00 pm Panel Session Commentary on ''The Unity of Linguistic Methods'' -Aravind Joshi U. of Pennsylvania -Anthony Kroch U. of Pennsylvania -John Trueswell U. of Pennsylvania Location: Cohen Hall Auditorium 5:00 - 6:30 pm Keynote Address ''What is to be learned?'' William Labov University of Pennsylvania Cohen Hall Auditorium 7:00 pm - NELS Banquet University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Chinese Rotunda *General registration (for students and non-students) includes the banquet. The banquet ticket purchase is for people who would like to bring guests: people who do not wish to do so can skip that step. Sunday, October 24th 8:30 - 9:30 am Breakfast 9:30 - 11:00 am A: Semantics 2 Quantified Concealed Questions and Descriptive Traces Ilaria Frana (University of Goettingen) Peripherastic Use: A Modal Account of Instrumentality Lilia Rissman (Johns Hopkins University) Decomposing Modal Superlatives Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz) B: Quantitative 1 What Makes Pair-List Answers Available: An Experimental Approach Asya Achimova, Viviane Deprez, Julien Musolino(Rutgers University) Featural Analysis and Working Memory Retrieval in On-Line Parsing: Evidence for Syntactic, But Not Phonological, Similarity-Based Retrieval Interference Miki Obata (Mie University), Richard Lewis, Samuel Epstein, Brian Bartek, Julie Boland (University of Michigan) What Can't They Do? On English Children's Negative Questions Ting Xu (University of Connecticut) 11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break 11:30 am - 12:30 pm A: Semantics 2 (cont.) Bound De Re Pronouns and Concept Generators Simon Charlow (New York University), Yael Sharvit (University of Connecticut) Number and Competition in English, Armenian and Turkish Alan Bale (Concordia University) B: Quantitative 1 (cont.) The Genesis of Nominal Forms of Address in Medieval Portuguese Leonardo Marcotulio, Silvia Cavalcante (UFRJ) Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese: Theoretical Implications of a Quantitative Study Satoshi Nambu (University of Pennsylvania) 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 - 3:00 pm A: Syntax 4 ATB as Asymmetric Extraction + Derivational Ellipsis Martin Salzmann (University of Zurich) V-Stranding Sluicing in Japanese and Its Implications Kensuke Takita (JSPS/Tohoku University) NPI-Licensing in Elided Subjects: EPP Repair and Polarity Items Under Ellipsis Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck (CRISSP/HUB/FUSL/KUL), Tanja Temmerman (Leiden University (LUCL)) B: Phonology 2 Minimal Salience and the Quality of Epenthetic Vowels in Loanwords Daylen Riggs (University of Southern California) Getting Rid of Positional Faithfulness in Stressed Positions: The Phonetic Underpinnings of Prosodic Conditioning Maria Giavazzi (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) Morphological Effects on the Articulation of English Intervocalic /l/ Sangjin Hwang, Sang-Im Lee, Lisa Davidson (New York University) 3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee break 4:00 - 5:00 pm A: Syntax 4 (cont.) Monstrous Agreement, Anaphora and Context: Evidence from Tamil Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Troms©? (CASTL)/University of Stuttgart) A Syntactic Correlate of Semantic Asymmetries in Clausal Coordination Bronwyn Bjorkman (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) B: Phonology 2 (cont.) Explaining Long-Distance Liquid Metathesis: Misperception vs. Optimization Ian Coffman (Johns Hopkins University) The Role of Usage Frequency in Phonological Variation Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan), Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University), Amelia Compton (Pomono College) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.