LINGUIST List 23.629 Tue Feb 07 2012 Confs: Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Ling Theories/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Radek Šimík , Generative Linguistics in the Old World 35 Message 1: Generative Linguistics in the Old World 35 Date: 04-Feb-2012 From: Radek Šimík <simikuni-potsdam.de> Subject: Generative Linguistics in the Old World 35 E-mail this message to a friend Generative Linguistics in the Old World 35 Short Title: GLOW 35 Date: 28-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012 Location: Potsdam, Germany Contact: Gisbert Fanselow Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~glow/ Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: The 35th GLOW Colloquium will be held on March 28-30, 2012, at the University of Potsdam. It is organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics and the Collaborative Research Centre 632 (Information structure). The Colloquium will be accompanied by four workshops, which will take place on March 27 and March 31. Workshops: The colloquium will be accompanied by four workshops. Association with Focus (Malte Zimmermann, Mira Grubic) Production and Perception of Prosodically-encoded Information Structure in Lesser-studied Languages (Frank Kügler, Sabine Zerbian) Empty Categories in Syntax: Are There Any? (Gisbert Fanselow, Gereon Müller) The Timing of Grammar: Experimental and Theoretical Considerations (Harald Clahsen, Claudia Felser) For more information, see the conference website. For more detailed information see the conference website. Wednesday, March 28 Uli Sauerland and Jonathan Bobaljik Syncretism distribution modeling and person paradigms Iain Giblin Long distance anaphora in Mandarin, the PCC, and Cyclic Agree Antje Lahne Locality in agreement: A new approach Yanyan Sui Metrical structure prominence vs. perceived prominence in Standard Chinese Ewan Dunbar, Brian Dillon, and William Idsardi Learning phonetic categories by learning allophony and vice versa Roberta D'Allesandro and Marc van Oostendorp Cyclic syntax mirrors cyclic phonology: Southern Italian vocatives in context Thursday, March 29 Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Gereon Müller, and Philipp Weisser Ergatives move too early Ivona Kucerova Case independence and split ergativity: Towards a unified account of Case assignment Claire Halpert Structural Case and the nature of vP in Zulu Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao, and Ivan Ortega-Santos On ellipsis structures involving a wh-remnant and a non-wh-remnant simultaneously Andreas Blümel Successive-cyclic movement as intermediate labeling indeterminacies Hadas Kotek Wh-fronting in a two-probe system Friday, March 30 Stephen Wechsler Conjunct morphology marks property self-ascription Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou Verb meaning, local context, and the syntax of roots in alternations Kriszta Szendroi Blocking quantifier raising by passives Valentina Bianchi and Mara Frascarelli How to be rooted in a context Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Claire Halpert In search of (im)perfection: The illusion of counterfactual aspect Luisa Meroni and Andrea Gualmini Do you know all SI? I know some. Context dependence of children's computation of SIs Kai von Fintel, Danny Fox, and Sabine Iatridou Definiteness as maximal informativeness Posters (Wednesday and Thursday) Mohamed Lahrouchi: Phasal spell out and the glide: High vowel alternation in Berber Peter Svenonius: North Sami pronouns Jacopo Torregrossa: Encoding contrast at PF Bethany Lochbihler: Final and non-final phase status Kristine Bentzen and Merete Anderssen: Discourse effects on the availability of object shift Laura Kalin and Coppe van Urk: A novel aspect split in Senaya Marta Abrusan and Kriszta Szendroi: Experimenting with the King of France Timothy Leffel: Non-restrictive adjectives and the theory of scalar implicatures Michael Freedman: Contextual disambiguation of have-sentences Stavroula Alexandropoulou and Bert le Bruyn: Inalienable possession: A semantic/pragmatic take Francesca Foppolo, Marco Marelli, Luisa Meroni, and Andrea Gualmini: Parsing semantic ambiguity: Strategies and commitments Lucas Champollion: Temporal dependencies: Anaphora vs. movement Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: Evidence from Wolof Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Feb-2012       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.