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socrates.berkeley.edu>The 25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FEBRUARY 12-15, 1998 CONFERENCE PROGRAM SPECIAL SESSION: CAUCASIAN, DRAVIDIAN, AND TURKIC LINGUISTICS Fri Feb 12, 1999, Alumni House, UC Berkeley PARASESSION: LOAN WORD PHENOMENA Together with the General Session: Sat-Mon Feb 13-15, 1999, Room C230 Cheit Hall, UC Berkeley FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 12, 1999: SPECIAL SESSION 8:00 REGISTRATION MORNING SESSION 9:00 Word games and the hidden phonology of Tuvan K. David Harrison, Yale University 9:30 Epenthesis-Driven Harmony in Turkish Abigail Kaun, Yale University 10:00 TBA Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley 10:40 Language policy and reforms of Uighur and Kazakh writing systems in China Minglang Zhou, University of Colorado at Boulder 11:10 Interpreting genitives in Turkish Mrvet Enc, University of Wisconsin, Madison 11:40 ********** LUNCH ********** AFTERNOON SESSION 12:40 Suffix-order variability in Turkish: How it works and why one should care Jeff Good & Alan Yu, University of California, Berkeley 1:10 Attractiveness and relatedness: Notes on Turkic language contacts Lars Johanson, Universitt Mainz 1:50 The phonology of the past tense in Tamil Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida, Gainesville 2:20 Analyzing contact-induced phenomena in Karaim Eva Agnes Csato, Uppsala University 2:50 ********** BREAK ********** LATE AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 Evidentiality in the Caucasus: The category 'Witnessed' in Tsez Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Maria Polinsky, UC San Diego 3:30 Kannada gerund in adnominal positions: A functional perspective Mirjam Fried, UC Berkeley 4:00 Indefinites, questions, and correlatives in a Dravidian language Hany Babu, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitt Jena SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 13, 1999: GENERAL SESSION 8:00 REGISTRATION MORNING SESSION 9:00 A cross-linguistic semantic analysis of Czech and Russian "spanning" prefixes Sarah Shull, University of California, Berkeley 9:30 Coronal phonotactics and coronal inventory Yoonjung Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10:00 Imitation as a basis for phonetic learning after the critical period Carol Fowler, Haskins Laboratories, Univ. of Connecticut, Yale Univ. 10:40 Roles and non-unique definites Richard Epstein, Rutgers University - Camden 11:10 ********** BREAK ********** 11:20 Aspects of locative doubling and resultative predication Diana Cresti & Christina Tortora, University of Michigan 11:50 The magic moment. What it means to be a punctual verb Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal 12:20 From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in the Kiraut Balthasar Bickel, Univ. of California, Berkeley and Univ. of Zrich 12:50 ********** LUNCH ********** AFTERNOON SESSION 1:50 Loan words in the English of modern Orthodox Jews: Yiddish or Hebrew? Sarah Benor, Stanford University 2:20 Are loanwords special? Ellen Broselow, State University of New York, Stony Brook 3:00 Implications of Itelmen agreement asymmetries Jonathan Bobaljik, McGill University 3:30 The combinatory properties of Halkomelem lexical suffixes Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University 4:00 ********** BREAK ********** LATE AFTERNOON SESSION 4:10 Morphosemantics of deverbal adjectives in Malayalam K.P. Mohanan, National University of Singapore 4:50 Metaphor, linguistic practice, and the temporal meanings of gannaaw 'back'and kanam 'front' in Wolof Kevin Moore, University of California, Berkeley 5:20 Proving basic polysemy: Subjects reliably distinguish several senses of 'see' Collin F. Baker, University of California, Berkeley 5:50 Why complement clauses do not include a that-complementizer in early child language Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 6:20 A local treatment of nonlocal relativization: A constructional approach Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 7:00 PARTY - 370-371 DWINELLE HALL SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 14, 1999: GENERAL SESSION MORNING SESSION 9:00 Complex noun, multiple inheritance, and internally headed relative clause in Korean Chan Chung, Dongseo University 9:30 Loan words and their implications for the categorial status of verbal nouns Yukiko Morimoto, Stanford University 10:00 Borrowings: delimitation of corpus, nomenclature, and etymology Garland Cannon, Texas A&M University 10:40 'Some' and the pragmatics of indefinite reference Michael Israel, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 11:10 ********** BREAK ********** 11:20 A model for the construction of common ground in interpreted discourse Brad Davidson, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics 11:50 The evolution of binary spatial deictics: French Voil and Voici Benjamin K. Bergen & Madelaine C. Plauch, Univ. of California, Berkeley 12:20 What is the information structure-syntax interface in Basque? Phyllis Bellver & Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder 12:50 ********** LUNCH ********** AFTERNOON SESSION 1:50 ACD, QR, and frozen scope Benjamin Bruening, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2:20 Construction but no constructions: Doing without the lexicon Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3:00 Evidentiality in Dutch and its implications for modality Ferdinand de Haan, University of New Mexico 3:30 Tmesis and verb second in Early Irish syntax Cathal Doherty, University College Dublin 4:00 ********** BREAK ********** LATE AFTERNOON SESSION 4:10 Loan word phonology in Optimality Theory Junko It & Armin Mester, University of California, Santa Cruz 4:50 Patterns of correspondence in the adaptation of Spanish borrowing in Basque Jos Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois 5:20 Perception, representation and correspondence relations in loanword phonology Yvan Rose, McGill University 5:50 Lexical words, non-lexical words, subcategorization and lexical stratification Ruben van de Vijver, Universitt Tbingen MONDAY - FEBRUARY 15, 1999: GENERAL SESSION MORNING SESSION 9:00 The origins and development of Chinese classifiers: A grammaticization perspective Fengxiang Li, California State University, Chico 9:30 On the rise of suppletion in verbal paradigms Matthew L. Juge, University of California, Berkeley 10:00 A new model of Indo-European subgrouping and dispersal Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley 10:30 TBA Stephen Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 11:10 Argument structure and animacy restrictions on anaphora Ash Asudeh, Stanford University 11:40 ********** LUNCH ********** AFTERNOON SESSION 12:40 Constraints on motion verbs in the TIME IS MOTION metaphor Kazuko Shinohara, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo 1:10 Emergent phonology Bjrn Lindblom, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin 1:50 Loanwords and contact-induced phonological change in Lachixo Zapotec Mark Sicoli, University of Pittsburgh 2:20 A comparison of three metrics of perceptual similarity in cross-language speech perception James D. Harnsberger, Indiana University 2:50 Loan word phonology: A case for non-reductionist approach to grammar Fumiko Kumashiro, University of California, San DiegoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue