LINGUIST List 3.715

Wed 23 Sep 1992

Confs: LASSO Program

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1. Terry Langendoen, complete WECOL/LASSO conference program

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 Preliminary Program of the 22ND WESTERN CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS
 (WECOL92), being held together with the annual meeting of the
LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHWEST (LASSO), October 16-18, 1992,
 at the Doubletree Hotel, Tucson, Arizona.

 FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 16
8:00-10:00 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
9:20-11:00 WECOL SESSION A, Syntax 1, Bonsai-Boojum
 Chair: Simin Karimi (U Arizona)
 9:20-9:45 Kuo-ming Sung (UCLA) A/A' Incorporation and Agreement
 9:45-10:10 Elly Van Gelderen (U Groningen) Agreement features:
 Dutch and various stages of English vs. modern English
 10:10-10:35 Bernhard Rohrbacher (U Mass) English AUX^NEG, Mainland
 Scandinavian NEG^AUX, and the Theory of V to I Raising
 10:35-11:00 Andrew Barss (U Arizona) Target Extension and Syntactic
 Derivations
11:15-12:15 WECOL Keynote address, Bonsai-Boojum.
 David Perlmutter (UCSD) What is Foot Structure?
 Chair: Diana Archangeli (U Arizona)

 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 16
12:30-2:15 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
1:30-3:10 WECOL SESSION B, Language Acquisition, Bonsai
 Chair: Adrienne Lehrer (U Arizona)
 1:30-1:55 Dale W. Russell & J. Michael Lake (U Illinois,
 Champaign-Urbana) Unification-Based Lexical Acquisition
 from Context
 1:55-2:20 Paul Bloom (U Arizona) Theories of Subject Omission in
 Language Development
 2:20-2:45 Keiko Murasagi (Kinjo Gakuin U) The Route that Children
 Take to Retreat from Overgeneration
 2:45-3:10 Andrew Barss, Paul Bloom, Janet Nicol & Laura Conway
 (U Arizona) The Development of The Disjoint Reference
 Condition: Formal and Experimental Considerations
1:30-2:55 LASSO SESSION 1, Studies in American Indian Languages,
 Boojum. Chair: Heather Hardy (U North Texas)
 1:30-1:55 Albert Bickford (Summer Institute of Linguistics) A
 Rich Model for Text Glossing
 1:55-2:20 David Shaul (U Arizona) Syntactic Evidence for the
 Taracahitic Subfamily
 2:20-2:45 Dean F. Saxton (Summer Institute of Longuistics) Clues
 to Basic Word Order in O'odham
 2:45-3:10 Mark W. Tremper (Summer Institute of Linguistics) San
 Felipe Keres a la Mode
3:25-4:40 WECOL SESSION C, Phonology 1, Bonsai. Chair: Richard
 Demers (U Arizona)
 3:25-3:50 Raul Aranovich (UC San Diego) Tone Sandhi in Acatlan
 Mixtec
 3:50-4:15 Dawn Bates (ASU) Prosodic Licensing in Salish:
 Diminutive Reduplication in Spokane and Lushootseed
 4:15-4:40 Sharon Inkelas & Orhan Orgun (UC Berkeley)
 Extrametricality and Syllable Weight in Turkish
3:25-4:40 LASSO SESSION 2, Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy,
 Boojum. Chair: Jon Jonz (East Texas State U)
 3:25-3:50 Ann Beck (Northern Arizona U) Comparing the Incompara-
 ble: Testing Language Dominance in Navajo and English
 3:50-4:15 Leslie Norfleet (Northern Arizona U) Second Language
 Reading of University Spanish Students
 4:15-4:40 Norris P. McKinney & Shin Ja J. Hwang (U Texas,
 Arlington) Fortis versus Lenis Consonants: A
 Pedagogical Perspective
3:25-4:40 LASSO SESSION 3, Discourse Analysis, Ironwood
 Chair: Marianne Cooley (U Houston)
 3:25-3:50 Margie White (Northern Arizona U) Who Gets to be Secre-
 tary?: A Discourse Analysis of Three Job Interviews
 3:50-4:15 Kathleen Hogan (New Mexico State U) Ethnic
 Eavesdropping: Linguistic Analysis of a Radio Talk Show
 4:15-4:40 Domnita Dumitrescu (California State U, Los Angeles) On
 the Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function of
 Multiple Constituent Repetitive Questions in Romanian
5:00-6:00 LASSO Keynote address, Bonsai-Boojum. Douglas Biber
 (Northern Arizona U) Linguistic Correlates of the
 Transition to Literacy in Somalia
6:30-8:00 LASSO/WECOL Reception, Pool Area

 SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 17.
8:00-10:00 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:10 WECOL SESSION D, Phonology 2, Ironwood. Chair: Dawn
 Bates (Arizona State U)
 8:30-8:55 Jan Mohammad (U Arizona) The Sonority Sequencing
 Principle Revisited
 8:55-9:20 Sin-Sook Lee (U Wisconsin-Madison) Toward a Unified
 Articulator Theory
 9:20-9:45 Willem J. DeReuse (U Arizona) Svarabhakti in Dutch:
 from Phonetic Non-Rule to Phonological Rule
 9:45-10:10 Larry Hagberg (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
 The Residue as a Domain for Stress Assignment
8:30-10:10 WECOL SESSION E, Syntax 3, Bonsai. Chair: Susan Steele
 (U Arizona)
 8:30-8:55 Tracy Holloway King (Stanford U) Russian Verbs and
 Refining the UTAH
 8:55-9:20 Patrick Farrell (UC, Davis) Generalized Transformations
 and Verbs of Appearance in English
 9:20-9:45 Farrell Ackerman & Phil LeSourd (UC, San Diego)
 Preverbs and Complex Predicates
 9:45-10:10 Kumiko Murasugi (MIT) NP Movement in Ergative Languages
8:30-10:10 LASSO SESSION 4, Morphology and Syntax, Boojum
 Chair: Domnita Dumitrescu (Trinity U)
 8:30-8:55 Harry Howard (Tulane U) Fronting Adverbials in English
 and Spanish
 8:55-9:20 William C. Spruiell (U Houston) Explaining the Meanings
 of Participant Nouns
 9:20-9:45 Harmon S. Boertien (U Houston) Problems with the Right-
 hand Head Rule, Relativized or Not
 9:45-10:10 Richard D. Janda (U Chicago) On Morphological
 Stipulation: Disjunctivity of Processual Rules vs.
 Lexical Level-Ordering of Feature Assignment
10:25-12:05 WECOL SESSION F, Syntax 4, Bonsai. Chair: Grant Goodall
 (U Texas, El Paso)
 10:25-10:50 T. Daniel Seely (Eastern Michigan U) The Syntax of
 Plural Pronominals
 10:50-11:15 Maria Polinsky (MIT) Locative Inversion and Subject
 Incorporation: Different Morphology, Same Syntax
 11:15-11:40 Ezat Karimi (U Texas at Austin) A Functional Analysis
 of Pro with Arbitrary Interpretation
 11:40-12:05 Keiko Murasagi & Mamoru Saito (Kinjo Gakuin U & U
 Connecticut) Quasi-Adjuncts as Sentential Arguments
10:25-12:05 LASSO SESSION 5, Sociolinguistics, Ironwood
 Chair: Shaw N. Gynan (Western Washington U)
 10:25-10:50 Kathleen Linnes (U Houston) Patterns in German-English
 Code Switching
 10:50-11:15 Mary Jane Hurst (Texas Tech U) Language and Social
 Networks in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist
 11:15-11:40 Elizabeth Bohon (U Arizona) Regular: A Politically
 Motivated Definition
 11:40-12:05 Garland D. Bills, Eduardo Hern ndez-Ch vez and Alan
 Hudson (U New Mexico) Contact and Maintenance: The
 Role of Geographical Distance in Language Shift
10:25-12:05 LASSO SESSION 6, Linguistic Studies in Chinese,
 Japanese and Korean, Boojum
 Chair: Shin Ja J. Hwang (U Texas, Arlington)
 10:25-10:50 Insun Yang (Rice U) Korean VP Conjunction Marker 'ko'
 10:50-11:15 Tatsushi Motohashi (Trinity U) On 'wo' Marking in Old
 Japanese and Chomsky's Minimalist Program
 11:15-11:40 Grover K. Yu (California State U, Fresno) Using
 Thematic Roles to Classify Chinese Verbs

 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 17.
12:15-2:00 Joint WECOL/LASSO Luncheon and Keynote Address, Bonsai-
 Boojum. Eloise Jelinek (U Arizona) Distributing Argu-
 ments. Chair: Jane Hill (U Arizona)
2:00-3:30 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
2:15-4:20 WECOL SESSION G, Semantics, Bonsai. Chair: Richard
 Oehrle (U Arizona)
 2:15-2:40 Meng Yeh (U Texas, Austin) Experiential Markers and
 Quantification
 2:40-3:05 Soonhyuck Park (U Wisconsin-Madison) The Locality
 Condition and Binding at LF
 3:05-3:30 Petra Hendriks (U Groningen) Multiple Head Comparison
 and Infinite Regress
 3:30-3:55 Mark Kas & Eric Hoekstra (U Groningen, P.J. Meertens-
 Inst) Negative Polarity and Conditions on Typelifting
 3:55-4:20 Mario Montalbetti (U Texas, El Paso) Material
 Antecedents
2:15-4:20 LASSO SESSION 7, Psycholinguistics and First Language
 Acquisition, Ironwood. Chair: Garland Bills (UNM)
 2:15-2:40 Linda van der Wal (Arizona State U) Spelling: More than
 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'
 2:40-3:05 Dianne Hobbs (Virginia Tech U) Gender-related Strategies
 in Adult Directives to Children in Mexican Spanish
 3:05-3:30 Donna E. Cromer (UNM) for Facilitating Language Acquisi-
 tion: Evidence from a Naturalistic Study of One Child
 3:30-3:55 Mollie Walton (Trinity U) Language Acquisition: The
 Contribution of Research with Non-human Primates to
 Current Linguistic Theory
 3:55-4:20 Muriel Saville-Troike (U Arizona) Development of the
 Inflected Verb in Navajo Child Language
2:15-4:20 LASSO SESSION 8, Indigenous Languages of Mexico, Boojum
 Chair: Viola Waterhouse (SIL)
 2:15-2:40 Thomas Willett (SIL) The Grammaticization of Tense in
 Southeastern Tepehu n
 2:40-3:05 Carole Jamieson (SIL) A Survey of Chiquihuitl n Mazatec
 Interrogatives
 3:05-3:30 Barbara E. Hollenbach (SIL) Covert Transitive-
 Intransitive Verb Pairs in Copala Trique
 3:30-3:55 Stephen A. Marlett (SIL) Indirect Objects in Seri
 3:55-4:20 Laura H. Gittlen (SIL) Motion Verbs in Northern
 Tlaxiaco Mixtec
4:30-5:30 LASSO Presidential Address, Bonsai-Boojum
 Jon Jonz (East Texas State U) Language, Text and CLOZE
 Chair: Donald E. Hardy (U North Texas)
5:30-6:30 LASSO Executive Council Meeting, Basswood

 SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 18
8:00-10:00 Continental Breakfast, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
8:30-9:55 WECOL SESSION H Syntax 5, Bonsai. Chair: Feng-Hsi Liu
 (U Arizona)
 8:30-8:55 Dingxu Shi (USC & UC, Irvine) The Specificity
 Requirement and the Structure of Predication
 8:55-9:20 Naoko Nemoto (U Connecticut) A note on Case Positions
 in Japanese
 9:20-9:55 Kazuhiko Fukushima (Michigan State U) Subcategorization,
 Feature Structures, and Honorification in Japanese
8:30-9:55 WECOL SESSION I, Lexicon and Morphology, Ironwood
 Chair: Willem DeReuse (U Arizona)
 8:30-8:55 Hana Filip (UC, Berkeley) Verbal Aspect and Object
 Case Marking: A Comparison between Czech and Finnish
 8:55-9:20 Shobhana Chelliah (U Texas, Austin) Case and Pragmatic
 Marking in Manupuri
 9:20-9:55 Adrienne Lehrer (U Arizona) Blocking and the Principle
 of Conventionality
8:30-9:55 LASSO SESSION 9, Linguistic Analysis of Literature,
 Boojum. Chair: Mary Jane Hurst (U North Texas)
 8:30-8:55 Karen Milton & Tim Hagood (U North Texas) The Divided
 Consciousness: Orality and Literacy in Hamlet
 8:55-9:20 Marianne Cooley (U Houston) Language Attitudes: Literary
 Evidence
 9:20-9:55 Donald E. Hardy (Northern Illinois U) The Distribution
 and Function of Relative Clauses in Literary Narrative
10:10-11:25 WECOL SESSION J, Syntax 6, Bonsai. Chair: Andrew Barss
 (U Arizona)
 10:10-10:35 Jan Mohammad & Simin Karimi (U Arizona) 'Light' Verbs
 Are Taking Over: Complex Verbs in Persian
 10:35-11:00 Ke Zou (USC & Cal State U, Dominguez Hills)
 Specificity Effects in the Chinese NP Movement and
 WH-Extraction Locality
 11:00-11:25 Grant Goodall (U Texas, El Paso) Spec-Head Agreement
 as the Motivation for NP-Movement
10:10-11:00 WECOL SESSION K, Syntax 7, Ironwood. Chair: Janet Nicol
 (U Arizona)
 10:10-10:35 Carl Alphonce & Henry Davis (UBC) Multiple Dependencies
 and Centre-Embedding
 10:35-11:00 Laurent P. Dekydspotter (Cornell U) Reconstruction of
 Nested Variables and Locality
10:10-11:25 LASSO SESSION 10, Text Theory and Analysis, Boojum
 Chair: Donald E. Hardy (Northern Illinois U)
 10:10-10:35 Randi Gilbert (Northern Arizona U) A Comparison of
 Textbook Genre Models and Student Texts
 10:35-11:00 Carolyn G. Hartnett (Collete of the Mainland) How do
 Human Interest Stories Differ from News Reports?
 11:00-11:25 Robert E. Longacre (U Texas, Arlington) Sentence
 Structure as Constraints on the Use of 'and'
11:30-12:00 WECOL Business Meeting, Bonsai
11:30-12:00 LASSO Business Meeting, Boojum