BLS Schedule

Alan Yu charon at UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU
Tue Dec 15 04:10:59 UTC 1998


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
Further info: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/


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
        Mürvet  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, Universität 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-Universität 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 Zürich

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 Voilà and Voici
        Benjamin K. Bergen & Madelaine C. Plauché, 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 Itô & Armin Mester, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:50    Patterns of correspondence in the adaptation of Spanish borrowing in
Basque
        José 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, Universität Tübingen





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
        Bjørn Lindblom, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin
1:50    Loanwords and contact-induced phonological change in Lachixío 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 Diego



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