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Tue May 4 2004

Confs: General Linguistics/Ramat Gan, Israel

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    Message 1: 20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

     Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 02:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
    From: armonls <armonlsmail.biu.ac.il>
    Subject: 20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics


    20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Short Title: IATL20

    Date: 23-Jun-2004 - 24-Jun-2004 Location: Ramat Gan, Israel Contact: Sharon Armon-Lotem Contact Email: armonlsmail.biu.ac.il

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    IATL 20, the 20th annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, on June 23-24, 2004 IATL 20

    Wednesday, June 23, 2004

    09:30-10:00 Registration 10:00-10:15 Welcome

    10:15-11:15 Invited Speaker: Hana Filip, SRI-Discern and Stanford University Measure Verbal Prefixes and Non-Specific Indefinites

    11:15-11:55 Gabriella Toth, University of Szeged Inner aspect and negation: the internal structure of VP

    11:55-12:10 Refreshments

    12:10-12:50 Dafna Yitzhaki, Bar Ilan University The Semantics of Lexical Aspect in Modern Hebrew 12:50-13:30 Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: semelfactives and degree achievements

    13:30-14:45 Lunch

    14:45-15:25 Naama Friedmann, Tel Aviv University The acquisition of Hebrew unaccusatives: Young children and A-chains 15:25-16:05 Galina Gordishevsky & Jeannette Schaeffer, Ben Gurion University On the Relation between Case and Number in Early Child Language 16:05-16:30 Refreshments

    16:30-17:10 Irena Botwinik-Rotem, Tel Aviv University Externalization in object gap constructions 17:10-17:50 Tal Siloni, Tel-Aviv University Garden Path: Illicit Movement

    18:00 Reception



    Thursday, June 24, 2004

    10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Draga Zec, Cornell University On the prosodic status of function words

    11:00-11:40 Outi Bat-El, Tel Aviv University The Emergence of Trochee in Hebrew Hypocoristics

    11:40-12:00 Refreshments

    12:00-12:40 Jean Lowenstamm, University Paris 7 On the Universality of Root and Template Organization 12:40-13:20 Emmanuel Aim, University Paris 7 and University d'Orleans Aramaic & Hebrew Metathesis

    13:20-14:20 Lunch 14:20-15:00 Business Meeting

    15:00-15:40 Galia Hatav, University of Florida Syntactic and Semantic Tense Shift 15:40-16:20 Klaus Abels, Universitaet Leipzig Why one can't be Amazed Whether this is True

    16:20-16:40 Refreshements

    16:40-17:20 Alexander Grosu, Tel Aviv University Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University Argumental Relative constructions with a Postcopular Gap

    17:20-18:00 Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University Chain Resolution in Hebrew V(P)-fronting

    Alternates Peggy Afuta, Universite Paris 7 Floating Morpheme and Complex Segments in Yiddish