LINGUIST List 7.443

Sat Mar 23 1996

Confs: Student Conference in Linguistics 8

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Mark Brand, STUDENT CONFERENCE IN LINGUISTICS 8 SCHEDULE

STUDENT CONFERENCE IN LINGUISTICS 8, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

See our webpage at http://www.nyu.edu/scil for lots of useful information,
including registration information and directions.

SCHEDULE revised 22 Mar 96 (hopefully for the last time)

Friday, April 19th
Registration -Lobby of Main Bldg, 100 Washington Square East
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
7:30 p.m.Silverstein Lounge, Main Bldg.
Paul Postal	NYU
"Figure vs. Figure Out"

SESSION 1A, ROOM 703 Main Bldg
Saturday, April 20th

9:00-9:25	syntax
Mark Brand NYU
"On Adverbial Adjunction in the Subject-Verb Break"

9:30-9:55	syntax
Martin Honcoop Holland Inst. of Generative Ling.
"A Dynamic Binding Approach to Weak Islands"

10:00-10:25	syntax
Felicia Lee UCLA
"Aspect, Negation and Temporal Polarity in Zapotec"

10:30-10:55	syntax
Michael Gamon U of Washington
"Two Types of Expletive Constructions in English:
LF associate and Raising Revisited"

11:00-11:25	syntax
Yuki Matsuda USC
"A Syntactic Analysis of Focus Sentences in Japanese and its Application"

11:30-11:55	syntax/sem
Richard Breheny University College London
"Pro-active Focus"

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-2:25	syntax/sem
Sarah Kennelly Rutgers University
"Nonspecificity in Turkish"

2:30-2:55	syntax
Takeo Kurafuji Rutgers University
"Case-checking for accusative WH-adjuncts"

3:00-3:25	syntax
Irina Sekerina CUNY
"Scrambling in Russian and S-structure/PF interface"

3:30-3:55	syntax
Dalina Kallulli University of Venice
"Optional Verb Movement: Albanian Imperatives"

4:00-4:25	syntax
Luis Silva & Javier Gutirrez UCLA
"Temporal Adjectives and the Feature-structure of DPs"

4:30-4:55	syntax
Xuan Zhou SUNY Stonybrook
"The Interaction of Mandarin Aspectual Particles 'guo, le and ze'"

7:00 PARTY!!!
Loeb Student Center, Corner of La Guardia Pl. and Washington Sq. South

SESSION 1B 714 Main Bldg., 100 Washington Sq. East
Saturday, April 20th

9:00-9:25	phonology
Ruben Van de Vijver Free University of Amsterdam
"Spreading and Licensing in Two Palestinian Dialects"

9:30-9:55	phonology
Soek-Chae Rhee	University of Illinois
"Release vs. Non-release distinction in Phonology: Comparison between Hindi
and Korean"

10:00-10:25	phonology
Jason Eisner	U Penn
"FootForm Decompsed: Using Primitive constraints in OT"

10:30-10:55	phonology
Rose Yang NTU
"Patterns of Tonal Parsing in Taiwanese Quadrisyllabic Idioms"

11:00-11:25	phonology
An-nah Moon	 NYU
"Old English Gemination and its Related Paradigmatic Alternation:
an OT Theoretic Analysis"

11:30-11:55	phonology
Chang-Kook Suh	Univ. of Arizona
"Consonant Geminates in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber Syllabification"

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-2:25	phonology
Kyunghoon Suh NYU
"Dipthong Formation in Optimality Theory"

2:30-2:55	phonology
Eric Holt	Georgetown University
"Constraint Ranking and Divergent Outcomes in Spanish"

3:00-3:25	historical
Najib Jarad	University of Wales
"The Origin and Reanalysis of 'for' as a Complementizer"

3:30-3:55	historical
Ljuba Veselinova	Eastern Michigan University
"Why 'first' and 'second' and not 'oneth' and 'twoth: Suppletion, A Case
 Study"

4:00-4:25	psycholinguistics
Whitney Postman	Cornell University
"Evidence for Strong Continuity of Inflection based on new experimental
results of VP-Ellipsis"

4:30-4:55	computational
Malek Ghenima	=C9cole National Sup=E9rieure des Sciences
"Morpho-syntactic parsing of Arabic language based on the Tree-adjoining
Grammar (TAG) Formalism"


SESSION 2A ROOM 703 Main Bldg., 100 Washington Sq. East
Sunday April 21st

9:00-9:25	semantics
Silvia Gennari	Brown University
"Temporal and Modal Aspects of the Meaning of 'would'"

9:30-9:55	semantics
Jo=E3o Costa	Leiden University
"NP-Scrambling in European Portuguese"

10:00-10:25	syntax
Antonia Androsopoulou, UCLA
"Reduced Relatives in DPs: Evidence from Adjective Extraction in Modern
 Greek"

10:30-10:55	syntax
Gertjan Postma, Leiden University
Topic to be Announced

11:00-11:25	morph/phon
Rajesh Bhatt U Penn
"Matching Effects in Hindi Correlatives"

11:30-11:55	psycholinguistics
Laura Wagner	U Penn
"The Development of Aspect"

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-2:25	psycholinguistics
Laura Wagner	U Penn
"The Development of Aspect"

2:30-2:55	syntax
Zvjezdana Vrzic	NYU
"A Minimalist Account of word order in Chinook Jargon and the Theory of
Creole Genesis"

3:00-3:25	syntax
Marga Petter	Free University of Amsterdam
"Licensing pro-Subjects in Inflected Infinitival Complements to Causatives"

3:30-3:55	semantics
Javier Guti=E9rrez, UCLA
"The Semantic Basis of NP-Licensing in Questions"

4:00-4:25	syntax
Milagrosa Ramos-Santacruz Georgetown
"On the Derivation and Interpretation of quantificational null nominals"

4:30-4:55	semantics
Ron Artstein Tel-Aviv University
"Cardinality Adverbials in Event Semantics"

5:00-5:25 syntax
Manuel Espa=F1ol-Echevarr=EDa, UCLA
"Definiteness Patterns in A' to an N' Constructions and DP-Internal X'=
 Movement"