The Graduate Linguistics Student Association (GLSA) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, announces the publication of a new University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) in the area of semantics and typology.Conference Program:Friday 14 March1. Relative tense vs. aspect: The case reopenedJürgen Bohnemeyer, SUNY, Buffalo and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics2. Situation types in American Sign LanguageChristian Rathmann, University of Texas3. Early time reference in Inuktitut child language: The role of event realization and aspectual interpretationMary Swift, University of Rochester4. Focus Constructions in Yucatec MayaInvited Speaker: Judith Tonhauser, Stanford5. Not even in SamishInvited Speaker: Scott Shank, University of British Columbia6. Is todo in Brazilian Portuguese a uantifier?Roberta Pires (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)7. Invited speaker: Peter Jacobs, Squamish NationSaturday 15 March8. The semantics of discontinuous noun phrases in uechuaInvited Speaker: Rachel Hastings, Cornell University9. Anaphoric R-expressions as bound variablesInvited Speaker: Felicia Lee, University of British Columbia10. Toward the tenseless analysis of a tenseless languageBenjamin Shaer, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft11. Temporal interpretation in NavajoCarlota Smith, University of TexasTed Fernald, Swarthmore CollegeEllavina Perkins, Flagstaff, Arizona12. Presuppositionality and attitude subordination in ZuniLynn Nichols, University of California, Berkeley13. Wh-variables and Wh-movement parametersBenjamin Bruening, University of Delaware14. Controlled context elicitationsInvited Speaker: Strang Burton, Sto:lo Nation15. Spatio-temporal deixis and evidentiality in Cuzco uechuaMartina Faller, University of Nijmegen and Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics16. Subject generic sentences in Brazilian PortugueseAna Muller, University of São PauloSunday 16 March17. uantifiers and scope in ASL and ISNInvited Speakers: Judy Shepard-Kegl, University of Southern MaineBrenda Schertz, University of Southern Maine18. Imperfectivity in Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Salish)Leora Bar-el, University of British Columbia19. Generalizing in NavajoTed Fernald, Swarthmore CollegeEllavina Perkins, Flagstaff, ArizonaCarlota Smith, University of Texas20. What West Greenlandic habitual aspect marking tells us about characterizing sentencesVeerle van Geenhoven, Universiteit NijmegenFor more GLSA publications or to order on-line, please visit our website: http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm.