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Directory         1.     Edit Doron , Approaches to the Lexicon Message 1: Approaches to the Lexicon Date: 19-May-2011 From: Edit Doron <Editvms.huji.ac.il> Subject: Approaches to the Lexicon E-mail this message to a friend Approaches to the Lexicon Short Title: Roots III Date: 13-Jun-2011 - 16-Jun-2011 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Contact: Edit Doron Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=3887&incat=3661 Linguistic Field(s): Morphology Meeting Description: Main topics of the workshop: Issues of morphology, morphosyntax and morphophonology; questions of the nature of lexical units; the determination of lexical category, argument structure and word-internal structure; and various issues of lexical meaning. Joint Research Conference of the Israel Science Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies Organized by the Hebrew University Language, Logic and Cognition Center (LLCC) Approaches to the Lexicon (Roots III) June 13-16, 2011 Feldman Building, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem Monday June 13 09:45-10:15 Refreshments 10:15-10:30 Greetings, Reuven Amitai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 10:30-11:10 Session 1. Chair: Edit Doron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Heidi Harley, The University of Arizona On the Identity of Roots 11:10-11:40 Coffee Break 11:40-13:00 Session 2 Chair: Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut Root Suppletion - A Comparative Study Peter Svenonius, Universitetet i Tromsø Roots, Modularity, and Idiosyncracy 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30-15:50 Session 3 Chair: Yael Ziv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Winfried Lechner, University of Athens On the Size of Roots and Meanings Ivy Sichel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nominalization and Causativization 15:50-16:20 Coffee Break 16:20-17:40 Session 4 Chair: Gabi Danon, Bar-Ilan University Nora Boneh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Léa Nash, Université Paris VIII Datives in the Extended VP Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Projecting Possession: the Syntax of give 17:45 Reception Tuesday June 14 09:30-10:10 Session 1 Chair: Malka R. Hovav, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University Verb Representations and the Architecture of Grammar 10:10-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-12:00 Session 2 Chair: Asaf Bachrach, CNRS Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University Arity Operations and Phrase Structure Andrew Koontz-Garboden, The University of Manchester The Roots of Change of State Verbs 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:50 Session 3 Chair: Olga Kagan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University Lexical Representation in Semitic-type Morphology: a Phonological Perspective Noam Faust, Université Paris VII What's a Root and What's a Feature: Theoretical Implications of the Modern Hebrew Feminine Marker 14:50-15:20 Coffee Break 15:20-16:40 Session 4 Chair: Evan Cohen, Tel Aviv University Andrew Nevins, University College London A New Postsyntactic Mechanism for Fission Karlos Arregi, The University of Chicago Morpheme Displacement and Copying in a Modular Theory of Morphology Wednesday June 15 09:30-10:10 Session 1 Chair: Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University The Roots of Language 10:10-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-12:00 Session 2 Chair: Paul Hirschbühler, Université d'Ottawa Irit Meir and Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa On Non-syntactic Origins of Complex Words in a New Language Ariel Cohen, Ben Gurion University of the Negev A Semantic Explanation for the External Argument Generalization 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:50 Session 3 Chair: Yehuda Falk, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ana Müller, Universidade de São Paulo Bare Nouns in a 'Bare noun only' Language Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University Bare Nouns are Mass in Brazilian Portuguese 14:50-15:20 Coffee Break 15:20-16:40 Session 4 Chair: Aviya Hacohen, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Galit Weidman Sassoon, Universiteit van Amsterdam From Generalized Quantifiers to the Adjective-noun distinction: a New Approach to Adjectives Rolf Noyer, University of Pennsylvania Where there is no Infinitive: Participial and Subordinate Verb Constructions in Huave 19:00 Dinner Thursday June 16 09:30-10:10 Session 1 Chair: Anita Mittwoch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem E. Phoevos Panagiotidis, University of Cyprus Root 'Content' and Lexical Semantics 10:10-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-12:00 Session 2 Chair: Itamar Francez, The University of Chicago Marie Labelle, Université du Québec à Montréal The Causative-passive Alternation in French Malka Rappaport Hovav, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lexical Content and Context: The English Causative Alternation Revisited 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:50 Session 3 Chair: Yael Greenberg, Bar-Ilan University María Cristina Cuervo, University of Toronto Reflexive and Non-reflexive Unaccusatives Florian Schäfer, Universität Stuttgart Passives of Reflexives and the Typology of Reflexive Verb Classes 14:50-15:20 Coffee Break 15:20-16:40 Session 4 Chair: Yosef Grodzinsky, McGill University & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Artemis Alexiadou, Universität Stuttgart and Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete Decomposing the Greek Verb Edit Doron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Agents and Causes For further information please contact llccsavion.huji.ac.il Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-May-2011       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.