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linc.cis.upenn.edu>NELS 25 Preliminary Program University of Pennsylvania, October 14-16 (The schedules for the two workshops on October 13 will be announced shortly.) Friday, October 14 9:00 Registration and continental breakfast 9:45 Opening remarks 10:00 Danny Fox, MIT Derivational economy, QR and semantic interpretation evidence from VP ellipsis 10:30 C. Reinholtz and K. Russell, University of Manitoba Quantified NPs in pronominal argument languages 11:00 Cristina Schmitt, University of Maryland Antecedent contained deletion meets the copy theory 11:30-12:00 Coffee break 12:00 Anton Bures, MIT Clash in a composite model of prosodic structure 12:30 Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley The consequences of optimization for underspecification 1:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00 Jenny Doetjes, Leiden University Quantification at a distance and iteration 2:30 Jonathan Ginzburg, University of Edinburgh The QVE to some extent defused and generalized 3:00 Gerhard Jaeger, Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Grammatik der MPG Topic, focus and weak quantifiers 3:30-4:00 Coffee break 4:00 Enric Vallduvi and Elisabet Engdahl, University of Edinburgh Information structure and grammar architecture 4:30 Hamida Demirdache and Lisa Matthewson, U of British Columbia On the universality of syntactic categories 5:00 Owen Rambow and Beatrice Santorini, Universite de Paris VII and Northwestern University Incremental phrase structure generation and Germanic V2 5:30-8:00 Dinner 8:00 Invited speaker: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania TBA Saturday, October 15 9:00-9:30 Continental breakfast 9:30 Victoria Tredinnick, University of Pennsylvania Amount relatives and the presuppositional/cardinal distinction 10:00 William Snyder, MIT A neo-Davidsonian approach to resultatives, particles, and datives 10:30 Laura Conway and Stephen Crain, University of Connecticut Dynamic acquisition 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30 Jennifer Austin and Luis Lopez, Cornell University Nominative, absolutive, and dative languages 12:00 Carson T. Schutze, MIT Case, verb morphology, and argument structure in Choctaw: a minimalist account 12:30 John O'Neil, Harvard University Out of Control 1:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00 Edward S. Flemming, UCLA Perceptual features in phonology: evidence from consonant-vowel assimilation 2:30 Joyce M. McDonough, Ohio State University Geminates, prespecification, and the Prosodic Enhancement Strategy 3:00 Susanne Gahl, UC Berkeley Consonant gradation as a prosodic constraint 3:30-4:00 Coffee break and business meeting 4:00 David Embick, University of Pennsylvania Unifying morphosyntax and phonology: the 'mobile inflections' of Polish 4:30 Rose-Marie Dechaine, University of British Columbia Zero tense in Standard and in African American English 5:00 Ellen Thompson, University of Maryland Temporal ambiguity of clausal adjuncts and antecedent contained deletion 5:30 Michael J.R. Johnston, UC Santa Cruz The role of aspect in the composition of temporal clauses with adverbs of quantification 6:00 --> Dinner / Nels party Sunday, October 16 9:00-9:30 Continental breakfast 9:30 Joachim Sabel, Universitaet Frankfurt/Main On parallels and differences between long scrambling and clitic climbing and the economy of derivations 10:00 Alan Munn, University of Missouri First conjunct agreement without government 10:30 Jonni M. Kanerva and Leslie Gabriele, Indiana University Intonation and focus layers 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30 Laura Walsh, University of Massachusetts Representing laterals 12:00 Elizabeth Hume and David Odden, Ohio State University The superfluity of [consonantal] 12:30 Jennifer Cole and Charles W. Kisseberth, U of Illinois Paradoxical strength conditions in harmony systems 1:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00 Hajime Hoji, USC Demonstrative binding and Principle B 2:30 Jacqueline Gueron, Universite de Paris X - Nanterre HAVE, BE, and the theory of auxiliary verbs 3:00 Heidi Harley, MIT Abstracting away from Abstract Case 3:30 Marcel den Dikken, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Verb (projection) raising, scope and uniform phrase structure Alternates: Megan J. Crowhurst and Mark S. Hewitt, U of North Carolina and U of British Columbia Directional footing and prosodic alignment Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh The internal structure of small clauses: new evidence from inversion Janet Hitzeman, University of Edinburgh A Reichenbachian account of the interaction of the present perfect with temporal adverbials Alec Marantz, MIT The two modes of A-bar binding are not tied to the argument/adjunct distinction Hubert Truckenbrodt, MIT Rightward movement in the prosodic treeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue