LINGUIST List 22.987 Mon Feb 28 2011 Confs: Syntax, Semantics, General Ling, South Asian Langs/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     Rajesh Bhatt , UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics Message 1: UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics Date: 28-Feb-2011 From: Rajesh Bhatt <bhattlinguist.umass.edu> Subject: UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics E-mail this message to a friend UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics Short Title: WSASS Date: 19-Mar-2011 - 20-Mar-2011 Location: Amherst, MA, USA Contact: Rajesh Bhatt Contact Email: fasal.workshopgmail.com Meeting URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1329068/Treebank-Hyderabad/sass- cfp.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax Language Family(ies): Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Indo-Iranian; Tibeto-Burman Meeting Description: UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics Date: March 19-20, 2011 Invited Speaker: Ashwini Deo Goals This workshop has two primary goals. The first is to provide a local venue for discussion of formal work on various aspects of South Asian languages. The second is to encourage discussion on the role of corpora and computational resources (lexicons, PropBanks, treebanks) for formal linguistic research and to solicit feedback for one such resource: the currently under construction Hindi-Urdu Treebank, a current version of which can be found at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1329068/Treebank- Hyderabad/treebank.html. Authors are encouraged to consider this latter goal, but this is not obligatory. All talks will be at held in The French Lounge, Herter 301 Day 1: Saturday the 19th of March 9.00-9.30 Coffee & Welcome Session 1: 9.30-11.00 1. Control and non-control - Alice Davison 2. On the Optionality Puzzle of Hindi Long-Distance Agreement - Stefan Keine 3. Against Copy Control in Telugu - Madelyn Kissock 11.00-11.15: Break Session 2: 11.15-12.45 1. Recent Advances in the Hindi/Urdu LFG Grammar - Sebastian Sulger and Miriam Butt 2. A classification of dependencies in the Hindi/Urdu treebank - Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain Lunch: 12.45-2.00 [+ Demos] Session 3: 2.00-4.00 1. Focus in Bangla - Arunima Chowdhury 2. Bangla and company: The Distribution of Associative Plurals in Bangla, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese - Dustin Alfonso Chacon 3. Classification of the light verbs in Bangla - Sourav Syed 4. Incorporation and the nominal structure of Bangla - Priyanka Biswas 4.00-4.15: Coffee Break Session 4: 4.15-5.15 1. Closest Conjunct Agreement in Hindi-Urdu and Serbo-Croatian: Different solutions for the same problem - Rajesh Bhatt and Martin Walkow 2. Disagree to Agree - Pritty Patel 5.15-5.30: Break Invited Talk: 5.30-7.00 The Particular-Generic Copular Contrast in Indo-Aryan - Ashwini Deo Party at 9 Myrtle: 8.00 - Day 2: Sunday the 20th of March 9.15-9.30 Coffee Session 5: 9.30-10.30 1. Two ways of arriving at the same meaning: nominal comparatives in Malayalam - Mythili Menon 2. Height-Relative Determination of (Non-root) Modal Flavor: Evidence from Hindi - Dave Kush 10.30-10.45: Break Session 6: 10.45-11.45 1. Event completion requirements of Hindi and English perfectives - Sudha Arunachalam 2. Clefting and left-dislocation facilitate accessibility at the discourse-level - Rukshin Shaher, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan 11.45-12.00: Break Session 7: 12.00-1.30 1. Possessive Enclitics in Vedic - Mark Wenthe 2. Well-formedness Requirements on Tamil stems - Bhavani Saravanan 3. Degenerate Nouns in Hindi-Urdu - Peter Hook 1.30-- Lunch and Farewell Any questions about the workshop can be directed to bhattlinguist.umass.edu Department of Linguistics, 150 Hicks Way, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 0 1003-9274, USA New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-Feb-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.