LINGUIST List 8.1451

Thu Oct 9 1997

Confs: ESCOl '97

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Sergey Avrutin, ESCOl '97 Registration
2. Sergey Avrutin, ESCOl '97 Final Schedule

A registration fee of $35 has been set for ESCOL 97. A special
pre-registration fee of $30 is available through 14 November 1997. If
you wish to take advantage of the special $30 fee, please send a check
to:

 ESCOL 97
 Yale Linguistics
 Box 208236
 New Haven, CT 06520-8236

Make your check payable to Yale Department of Linguistics.

ESCOL '97
Yale University
New Haven, CT


Friday
November 21, 1997

9:00 Roumyana Izvorski (University of Pennsylvania) "Non-Indicative
Wh-Complements of Possessive and Existential Predicates"

9:30 Chung-hye Han (University of Pennsylvania) "(Non) Availability of
Negative Imperatives"

10:00 Laura Siegel (University of Pennsylvania) "Gerundive Nominals
and Aspect"

10:30 COFFEE

11:00 Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University) "On the
Quantificational Force of the Comparative Clause"

11:30 Paul Postal (invited speaker) (NYU) "Strong Crossover Violations
and Binding Principles"

12:30 LUNCH

2:00 Donca Steriade (invited speaker) (UCLA) "Lexical conservatism
effects in reduplication"

3:00 Katy Carlson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Sonority and
Reduplication in Nakanai and Nuxalk"

3:30 Megan Crowhurst (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Stress Mobility in Bolivian Guarani: A Conjunctive Analysis"

4:00 COFFEE

4:30 Caroline Wiltshire & Louis Goldstein (University of Florida,
Gainesville & Haskins Lab/Yale University) "Tongue Tip Orientation and
Coronal Consonants"

5:00 Marc Pierce (University of Michigan) "The Weight-to-Stress
Priniciple in Early Germanic"

5:30 Joo-Kyeong Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Phonetic Examination of C/V Place Assimilation in OT"


Saturday
November 22, 1997

9:00 Satoshi Stanley Koike (CUNY) "Prenominal and Postnominal
Possessives, Discourse Familiarity and Bridging"

9:30 Thorstein Fretheim (University of Trondheim) "Relevance-Theoretic
Account of 'if' and 'in case'"

10:00 Gerhard Brugger (UCLA/University of Vienna) "Temporal
Orientation and the Tense/Aspect of Infinitives"

10:30 COFFEE

11:00 Marcela A. Depiante (University of Connecticut, Storrs) "On the
Interaction between Ellipsis and Restructuring in Spanish and Italian"

11:30 David Pesetsky (invited speaker) (MIT) "Wh-constructions and the
notion "input""

12:30 LUNCH

2:00 Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University) "Clitic Clusters and
Coordination"

2:30 Seth Kulick (University of Pennsylvania) "Generalized
Transformations and Restructuring in Romance"

3:00 Lizanne Kaiser (Yale University) "The Morphological Cliticization
of Object-Shifted Weak Pronouns in Swedish"

3:30 Colleen M. Fitzgerald (San Jose State University) "Destressing in
the Clitic Group"

4:00 COFFEE

4:30 Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University) "Macedonian
Clitics"

5:00 Tonia Bleam (University of Delaware) "Deriving Kayne's
Generalization in Spanish"

5:30 Berthold Crysmann (Universitat des Saarlandes) "The Conspiracy of
Quantification and Linear Precedence in European Portuguese Proclisis"

6:00 Alice C. Harris (Vanderbilt University) "Clitic Pronouns and the
Problem of Endoclisis in Udi"

7:00 DINNER

Sunday
November 23, 1997

9:00 Sandra Stjepanovic (University of Connecticut, Storrs) "VP
Ellipsis in a Verb Raising Language: Implications for Verbal
Morphology"

9:30 Jeong-Seok Kim (University of Connecticut, Storrs) "A Minimalist
Theory of S-Structure Saving Effects in Japanese and Korean"

10:00 Julie Anne Legate (MIT) & Carolyn Smallwood (University of
Toronto) "Eliminating Procrastinate"

10:30 COFFEE

11:00 Alan Munn (Michigan State University) "ATB Movement without
Identity"

11:30 Elisabeth Villalta & Gilles Boye (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst; Universit de Paris 7) "How Many-Questions: The Case of
Combien-Split in French"

12:00 Sarah Grey Thomason (invited speaker) (University of Pittsburgh)
"On Irregular Sound Changes"

1:00 LUNCH

2:00 Kazuko Yatsushiro (University of Connecticut, Storrs) "Japanese
Ditransitives Revisited"

2:30 David Parkinson (Cornell University) "The Interplay of Morphology
and Syntax in the Acquisition of Inuktitut as a First Language:
Lexical and Syntactic Accounts Re-Evaluated"