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Leora Bar-el, Semantics of Under-Represented Languages, Canada
Message 1: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages, Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:06:29 -0800
From: Leora Bar-el <leorapop.interchange.ubc.ca>
Subject: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages, Canada
Preliminary Program
Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 2
March 14-16, 2003
University of British Columbia
Friday, March 14th
Session on Tense and Aspect
1.00 J�rgen Bohnemeyer (SUNY, Buffalo and Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics)
Relative Tense vs. Aspect: The Case Reopened
1.30 Christian Rathmann (University of Texas)
Situation Types in American Sign Language
2.00 Mary Swift (University of Rochester)
Early Time Reference in Inuktitut Child Language: The Role of
Event Realization and Aspectual Interpretation
2.30 Comments and Discussion
3.00 Break
Session on Focus
3.30 Judith Tonhauser (Stanford)
Focus Constructions in Yucatec Maya
4.20 Scott Shank (University of British Columbia)
"Just" and its negative polarity variants in Samish
5.10 Comments and Discussion
5.30 Break
Session on Language Revitalization
6.00 Peter Jacobs (Squamish Nation)
6.30 Speaker to be arranged
7.00 Discussion
7.30 Dinner
Saturday, March 15th
Session on DP Semantics
9.00 Rachel Hastings (Cornell University)
Specificity Effects in Quechua
9.50 Felicia Lee (University of British Columbia)
Anaphoric R-Expressions as Bound Variables
10.40 Comments and Discussion
11.00 Break
Session on Tense and Aspect
11.30 Benjamin Shaer (Zentrum f�r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)
Toward the Tenseless Analysis of a Tenseless Language
12.00 Carlota Smith (University of Texas), Ted Fernald (Swarthmore
College), and Ellavina Perkins (Flagstaff, Arizona)
Temporal Interpretation in Navajo
12.30 Comments and Discussion
12.50 Lunch
Session on Presuppositionality and Quantification
2.30 Lynn Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)
Presuppositionality and Attitude Subordination in Zuni
3.20 Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware)
Wh-Variables and Wh-Movement Parameters
3.50 Comments and Discussion
4.10 Break
Session on Fieldwork Methodologies
4.40 Strang Burton (Sto:lo Nation)
Controlled Context Elicitations
5.20 Discussion
5.40 Break
Session on Tense and Aspect
6.00 Martina Faller (University of Nijmegen and Max-Planck-Institute
for Psycholinguistics)
Spatio-Temporal Deixis and Evidentiality in Cuzco Quechua
6.30 Ana Muller (University of S�o Paulo)
Indefinite Singular and Bare Numberless Subject Generic
Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese
7.00 Comments and Discussion
Sunday, March 16th
Session on [Topic to be arranged]
9.00 Judy Shepherd-Kegl (University of Southern Maine) and Helen
Stickney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Topic to be arranged
9.50 Comments and Discussion
10.00 Break
Session on Tense and Aspect
10.30 Leora Bar-el (University of British Columbia)
Imperfectivity in Skwxwamesh (Squamish Salish)
11.00 Ted Fernald (Swarthmore College), Ellavina Perkins (Flagstaff,
Arizona) and Carlota Smith (University of Texas)
Generalizing in Navajo
11.30 Veerle van Geenhoven (Universiteit Nijmegen)
What West Greenlandic Habitual Aspect Marking Tells Us About
Characterizing Sentences
12.00 Comments and Discussion
12.30 Closing Remarks
Alternate:
Roberta Pires (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Is todo in Brazilian Portuguese a Quantifier?