LINGUIST List 21.4466 Sun Nov 07 2010 Confs: Semantics, Syntax, Typology/USA Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Michael Erlewine , MIT Workshop on Comparatives Message 1: MIT Workshop on Comparatives Date: 07-Nov-2010 From: Michael Erlewine <mitchomit.edu> Subject: MIT Workshop on Comparatives E-mail this message to a friend MIT Workshop on Comparatives Date: 13-Nov-2010 - 14-Nov-2010 Location: Cambridge, MA, USA Contact: Michael Erlewine Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://comparatives.mit.edu Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax; Typology Meeting Description: Recent crosslinguistic studies of comparative constructions such as Beck, Oda, and Sugisaki (2004) and Kennedy (2007) among others have not only broadened our understanding of how natural language expresses comparison, but also raised theoretical issues of how languages can differ both semantically and syntactically in what types of comparison can be expressed in what forms. The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for linguists in the Cambridge area (and beyond) who are interested in this topic to share their recent findings and discuss their implications on the crosslinguistic typology of comparative constructions. November 13 (Saturday) 10:00-11:00 The Derivation and Distribution of than-Clauses Invited speaker: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst), presenting joint work with Shoichi Takahashi 11:00-11:45 The Most You'd Ever Want To Hear About Superlatives and NPIs Edwin Howard (MIT) 11:45-12:30 Surface Syntax and Semantics: A Transparent Account of French Comparatives Patrick Rich (Harvard) 2:00-2:45 A Conceptual Analysis of Degrees and its Implications on Comparatives Yuncheng Zhou (MIT) 2:45-3:30 Independent Dependency in the Mandarin bi Comparative Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (MIT) 4:00-4:45 The Bare Comparative in Chinese Louis Liu (Harvard) 4:45-5:45 'Incomplete' Comparatives (no comparative marker or no standard phrase) Invited speaker: Roger Schwarzchild (Rutgers) November 14 (Sunday) 10:00-11:00 Epistemic Wa and Negative Islands in Japanese Invited speakers: Bernhard Schwarz and Junko Shimoyama (McGill) 11:00-11:45 Splitting POS: Evidence from Navajo for Two POS Morphemes Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (UMass Amherst) 11:45-12:30 Locational Comparatives Junya Nomura (MIT) 2:00-2:45 Plural Comparison and Collective Predication Greg Scontras (Harvard), Peter Graff (MIT), and Noah D. Goodman (Stanford) 2:45-3:30 Subset Comparatives: A Psycholinguistic Investigation Meg Grant (UMass Amherst) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Nov-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.