LINGUIST List 22.3523 Thu Sep 08 2011 Confs: General Linguistics/Israel Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Ilona Spector , 1st International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics Message 1: 1st International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics Date: 06-Sep-2011 From: Ilona Spector <igdal2011gmail.com> Subject: 1st International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend 1st International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics Short Title: IGDAL Date: 23-Oct-2011 - 23-Oct-2011 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Contact: Ilona Spector Orit Eshel Beninga Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/site/IGDAL2011 Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: The Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is proud to announce the 1st International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics. The conference is organized by the department's graduate students under the auspices of The School of Language Sciences at the Hebrew University and will take place on October 23rd 2011, immediately before the annual conference of IATL (Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics). Invited Speaker: Professor Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) First International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics 2011 (IGDAL) Date: 23.10.2011 Location: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Meeting and contact e-mail: igdal2011gmail.com (updated e-mail) Web site: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/site/IGDAL2011 Local Organizing Committee: Orit Eshel Beninga Ilona Spector Program: 9:15-9:45 Coffee and reception 9:45-10:00 Greetings 10:00-10:45 *Invited speaker* Prof. Malka Rappaport-Hovav. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A scalar analysis of directed motion verbs 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break Session 1 – Chair: Lavi Wolf, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: 11:00 - 11:30 Tzu-I Chiang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Framing Force Dynamics: A Case Study on Unilateral Force Interaction Verbs in Mandarin. 11:30 – 12:00 Hagen Blix, Universität Leipzig, Germany. Complex Nuclei in Turkish Relative Clauses: Incorporation as an Obligatory Voice Construction. 12:00 – 12:30 Isa Kerem Bayirli, Bogazici University, Turkey. Antisymmetric derivation of Turkish verbal morphology. 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Session 2 – Chair: Gili Diamant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 14:00 - 14:30 Oksana Tkachman, The University of Haifa. Basic Noun/Verb Distinction in Two Young Sign Languages. 14:30 – 15:00 Vered Silber-Varod, The Open University of Israel/ACLP. The SpeeCHain Perspective: Prosody-Syntax Interface in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew. 15:00 - 15:30 Einat Keren, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Negative Concord in Modern Israeli Hebrew and its Origin. 15:30 -16:00 Coffee break Session 3 – Chair: Dolly Goldenberg, Tel Aviv University: 16:00 – 16:30 Haggit Sofer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Conversational implicatures: interpretation and awareness of computability. 16:30 – 17:00 Yuval Pinter, Tel Aviv University. Modal Aspects of Before. 17:00 – 17:30 Torbjorn Westerlund, Uppsala University. ’In order to eat it’ & ’for eating’, concerning a semantic contrast in Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan, Ngayarta). Alternates: Alexandra Anna Spalek, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Verb Meaning in Context. Lavi Wolf, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Epistemic Ambiguity. Elitzur Dattner, Tel Aviv University. Transitivity Constructions in Hebrew: The Case of Motion Verbs. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Sep-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.