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Directory         1.     Nora Boneh , 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Message 1: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Date: 22-Oct-2011 From: Nora Boneh <bonehnmscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Short Title: IATL 27 Date: 24-Oct-2011 - 25-Oct-2011 Location: Haifa, Israel Contact: Nora Boneh Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories Meeting Description: The 27th Annual Meeting Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Dates October 24-25 (Monday/Tuesday), 2011 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/ Invited Speaker: Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca Bencie Woll, University College London IATL 27, The 27th Annual Meeting of The Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at The University of Haifa on October 24-25, 2011. Conference Program of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Monday, October 24, 2011 9:00-10:00 Registration and coffee 10:05-10:20 Welcoming remarks 10:20-11:20 ~Invited Speaker~ Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca (work in collaboration with Alan Langus) Different cognitive systems struggling for word order 11:20-11:40 Coffee break 11:40-12:20 Gabi Danon, Bar Ilan University Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740094>; 12:20-13:00 Lena Ibnbari, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Russian gerundive gaps as topic drop <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739949>; 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:10 Sascha Alexeyenko, University of Osnabrück A Slow Typist When Tired: On Adverbial Modifiers Of Predicative Nominals <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740499>; 15:10-15:50 Aviya Hacohen, Dana Kozlowski and Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Superlative Quantifiers as Speech Act Modifiers: Experimental Evidence from Hebrew <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739435>; 15:50-16:30 Chen Gafni, Tel-Aviv University The role of Consonant Harmony in child language <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740127>; 16:30-16:50 Coffee break Special session: Sign Language 16:50-17:00 Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa Introduction to the Sign Language sessions 17:00-17:40 Vadim Kimmelman, University of Amsterdam Doubling in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: a unified account <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=738049>; 17:40-18:20 Christina Healy, Svetlana Dachkovsky and Wendy Sandler, Gallaudet University, University of Haifa The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739374>; 19:00 Conference Dinner Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Special session: Sign Language 9:30-10:30 ~Invited Speaker~ Bencie Woll, University College London Using a linguistic savant <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=729777>; 's learning of British Sign Language to explore linguistic theory 10:30-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:30 Roland Pfau and Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam Spatial adpositions in sign languages <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=738208>; 11:30-12:10 Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach, University of Göttingen Strategies of reference in German Sign Language fables <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740661>; 12:10-12:30 Business Meeting 12:30-13:40 Lunch 13:40-14:20 Yaron Mcnabb, University of Chicago Hebrew Definite Marking as Post-Syntactic Local Dislocation <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739743>; 14:20-15:00 Dina Orenstein, Bar Ilan University The Hebrew be-sax ha-kol: An exclusive analysis of an approximative reading 15:00-15:20 Coffee break 15:20-16:00 Keren Kharizman and Yael Greenberg, Bar Ilan University Bixlal: A general strengthening operator in Hebrew <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740467>; 16:00-16:40 Micha Y. Breakstone, MIT/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Inherent Evaluativity <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=723810>; 16:40-17:20 Galit W. Sassoon, University of Amsterdam A slightly modified economy principle: Stable properties have non-stable standards <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=737507>; 17:30 Reception Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Oct-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.