LINGUIST List 8.1307

Tue Sep 16 1997

Confs: North East Ling Society 28

Editor for this issue: Julie Wilson <julielinguistlist.org>

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1. Carolyn Smallwood, NELS 28

 NELS 28
 Rm 003 Northrop Frye Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto
 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Friday, October 24, 1997

8:30 Opening Remarks
8:45 E. J. Reuland (Utrecht) 'Deriving c-command in binding'
9:15 Johan Rooryck & Guido Van den Wyngaerd (HIL,RU Leiden/FWO,KU
 Brussels) 'The self as other: a Minimalist approach to zich and
 zichzelf in Dutch'
9:45 Carol L. Tenny 'Pronominal coreference and point of view'

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Brian Agbayani (UCI) 'Generalized pied-piping and Island Effects'
11:00 Masanori Nakamura (Senshu University) 'Global Issues'
11:30 Zeljko Boskovic (U. Connecticut) 'LF movement and the Minimalist
 Program'

12:00 LUNCH

2:15 Jan-Wouter Zwart (U. Groningen) 'Rethinking subject agreement
 in Swahili'
2:45 Andrew Simpson (U. Frankfurt am Main) 'Focus, pre-supposition and
 light predicate raising in S.E. Asian'
3:15 Heidi Harley & Rolf Noyer (U. Pennsylvania) 'Mixed
 nominalizations, short verb movement and object shift in English'
3:45 Paul Law (ZAS) 'A unified analysis of P-stranding in Romance and
 Germanic'

4:15 Coffee

4:30 Andrea Massar & LouAnn Gerken (U. Arizona) 'Abstract output: an OT
 analysis of children's omissions from prosodically complex structures'
5:00 Mitsuhiko Ota (Georgetown) 'The emergence of the unmarked in early
 prosodic structure'
5:30 Bruce Tesar (Rutgers) 'Using the mutual inconsistency of
 structural descriptions to overcome ambiguity in language learning'

Special Session:

4:15-6:15 POSTER SESSION I - SYNTAX

Michael Walsh Dickey (U. Mass/Max Planck Institute) 'Switch-reference and
clause chains in Miskitu'
Kunio Nishiyama (Cornell) 'The internal structure of Buginese noun phrases'
Hiroshi Aoyagi (Nanzan) 'Particles as adjunct clitics'
Eric Haeberli (U. Geneva) 'Categorial feature matrices and checking'
Elena E. Benedicto (U. Mass) 'Determinerless subjects'
Uli Sauerland (MIT) 'Scope freezing'

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1997

9:00 Beverley Goodman (Eastern Michigan) 'Ponapean weight and
 [+/- consonantal]
9:30 Trisha Causley (U. Toronto) 'Variable markedness and fixed
 hierarchies'
10:00 Daniel Silverman (U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 'Alveolar
 stops in English, and the nature of allophony'

10:30 Coffee

10:45 Stuart Davis & Gina Torretta (Indiana/Central Institute for the
 Deaf) 'An Optimality-Theoretic account of vowel lengthening and 
 geminate throwback in Trukese'
11:15 Eugene Buckley (U. Pennsylvania) 'Integrity and correspondence in
 Manam double reduplication'
11:45 Dan Karvonen & Adam Sherman (UC Santa Cruz) 'Opacity in Icelandic:
 a sympathy account'

12:15 LUNCH

1:45 Thomas Ernst (Rutgers) 'Scope based adjunct licensing'
2:15 Andre Meinunger (ZAS) 'A monoclausal structure for (pseudo) cleft
 sentences'
2:45 Benjamin Shaer (Stuttgart) 'Adverbials, functional structure and
 restrictiveness'

3:15 Coffee

3:30 Sungeun Cho (SUNY at Stony Brook) 'A new analysis of Korean
 inalienable possession constructions'
4:00 Roumyana Izvorski (U. Penn/MIT) 'Non-indicative wh-complements
 of possessive and existential predicates'
4:30 Yael Sharvit (U. Pennsylvania) 'Possessive wh-expressions and
 reconstruction'

5:00 Coffee

5:15 Martha McGinnis (MIT) 'L-syntax and locality'
5:45 Murat Kural (UCI) 'Passives without argument incorporation'

Special Sessions:

10:30-12:30 POSTER SESSION II - SYNTAX

Patricia Schneider-Zioga (CSU) 'The structural representation of clitic
pronouns in Modern Greek'
Antonia Androutsopoulou (UCLA) 'Contrastive focus and remnant DP-movement
in Modern Greek'
Ralph C. Blight (U. Texas) 'The syntax of the English dative and as
alternations'
Mika Kizu (McGill) 'A focus account of 'VP' ellipsis in Japanese'
Hooi Ling Soh (MIT) 'Object scrambling in Chinese: a closer look at
post-DFP positions'
Norvin Richards (MIT) 'In full pursuit of the unspeakable'

1:30-3:30 POSTER SESSION III - PHONOLOGY

Susan Garrett (U. Penn) 'Faithfulness in child speech: what gets kept and
why?'
Frida Morelli (U. Maryland) 'A factorial typology of onset obstruent
clusters'
Alicja Gorecka (USC) 'Parasitic harmony in Optimality Theory'
Anthi Revithiadou (HIL) 'Feet above heads: dominance vs. cyclicity'

8:00 PARTY

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1997

9:30 Simin Karimi & Anne Lobeck (U. Arizona/Western Washington U.)
 'Specificity effects in English and Persian'
10:00 Carson T. Schutze (UCLA) 'Subject case, temporal specification,
 and the typology of (small) clauses'
10:30 Henry Davis & Lisa Matthewson (UBC/Simon Fraser) 'Unselective
 determiners and the entity/event parallel'
11:00 Marc Authier (Penn State & U. Ottawa) 'When syntax overrules
 semantics'

11:30 Coffee

11:45 Elena Anagnostopoulou, Ken Hale, Sabine Iatridou, Roumyana
 Izvorski (MIT/MIT/MIT/UPenn,MIT) '(Im)perfective morphology and the
 semantics of the perfect'
12:15 Jianxin Wu (U. Maryland) 'Topic, floating quantifiers and
 partitivity'
12:45 Anna-Maria Di Sciullo & Carol L. Tenny (UQAM) 'Modification, event
 structure and the word/phrase asymmetry'

1:15 Business meeting

Alternates:
Winfried Lechner (U. Mass/Amherst) 'Phrasal comparatives and DP structure'
Arthur Stepanov (U. Connecticut) 'Interpretive aspects of wh-fronting in
Russian'

Additional Information can be found on our web site:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~nels/nels.html

ACCOMMODATION

Note: all accommodations are listed in Canadian funds

Hotels: We have booked blocks of rooms in 2 downtown hotels for the
conference (about a 15 minute walk from the conference site). These rooms
must be reserved by September 23, 1997 to receive the special rate:

1. Days Inn Toronto Downtown $69 single/double
 416-977-6655
 1-800-329-7466

2. Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel $85 single/double
 416-924-0611 (call collect) $100 triple
 $115 quad

On-campus housing: There are additionally a few rooms available on campus
(about a 5 minute walk to the conference site):

1. Victoria College Residence $42 single
 416-585-4524 $60 double

2. Hart House $35-$70
 416-978-7274

Extensive additional accommodation information can be found on our web
site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~nels/nels.html


REGISTRATION

Pre-registration will be accepted until SEPT. 29th, 1997. Pre-register by
mailing your name, affiliation, email and snail mail addresses and cheque
for $35 (US $25) for students (+proof of student status) or $45 (US$35)
all others to:

NELS pre-registration
Dept. of Linguistics
130 St. George St.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 3H1 Canada

Cheques must be made out to NELS 28

NO PRE-REGISTRATION BY EMAIL

On-site registration fees: $45 (US $35) for students, $60 (US $45)
others.

On-site registration will begin at 8:00am on Friday, October 24th, outside
room 003, Northrop Frye Hall.