BLS 26 Program

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                THE 26TH ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

                                        370 DWINELLE HALL
                        (LEVEL G/7TH FLOOR OF OFFICE SIDE OF BUILDING)
                                UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
                        http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS

                                        FEBRUARY 18-21, 2000


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000

SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE
AMERICAS

8:30    COFFEE

9:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        EMMON BACH,
                                UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
BREAK

10:00   Multiple Antipassives in Halkomelem Salish
        Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University
        Thomas E. Hukari, University of Victoria
10:30   The semantics of the Salishan suffix *an/n'ak
        Mercedes Q. Hinkson, Simon Fraser University
11:00   Complex Predicates in Tsafiki
        Connie Dickinson, University of Oregon

LUNCH

12:30   Argument Structure of Klamath Bipartite Stems
        Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon
1:00    Word Order and Inverse Voice in Isthmus Mixe
        Julia Dieterman, University of Texas at Arlington
1:30    Aspectual classes and non-agentive morphosyntax in Lowland Chontal
        Loretta O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00    Demonstrative words in Passamaquoddy
        Eve Ng, State University of New York at Buffalo
2:30    INVITED SPEAKER:        MARIANNE MITHUN
                                UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
BREAK

3:30    Coordination, clitic placement, and prosody in Zapotec
        George Aaron Broadwell, State University of New York at Albany
4:00    Grammaticalization of Olutec motion verbs under areal contact
        Roberto Zavala, University of Oregon
4:30    Multiple Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut
        Carrie Gillon, University of British Columbia
5:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        JERRY SADOCK
                                UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2000

8:30    COFFEE

SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        MANFRED KRIFKA
                                UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
BREAK

10:00   Happening gradually
        Christopher Pinon, Universitat Dusseldorf
10:30   Event underspecification and aspect marking in Thai
        Jean-Pierre Koenig and Nuttanart Muansuwan, State University of New York
at Buffalo
11:00   Event Structure vs. Phasal Structure and Quasi-Discourse Relations
        Patrick Caudal and Laurent Roussarie, University of Paris 7

LUNCH

SESSION II: SYNTAX
12:30   On the topicalizing nature of multiple left-dislocations
        Eugenia Casielles, Wayne State University
1:00    Markedness and Pronoun Incorporation
        Han-Jung Lee, Stanford University
1:30    Syntactically-based lexical decomposition: the case of climb revisited
        Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2:00    The go (Particle) and Verb constructions in English
        Anatol Stefanowitsch, Rice University
2:30    INVITED SPEAKER:        ELLEN PRINCE
                                UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
BREAK

SESSION III: PHONOLOGY
3:30    Probability in phonological generalizations: modeling optional French
final consonants
        Benjamin K. Bergen, UC Berkeley and ICSI
4:00    Sonority-Driven Reduction
        Katherine M. Crosswhite, University of Rochester
4:30    Prominence, Augmentation, and Neutralization in Phonology
        Jennifer Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
5:00    Re-examining default-to-opposite stress
        Matthew K. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
5:30    Yaka nasal harmony: spreading or segmental correspondence?
        Rachel Walker, University of Southern California
6:00    Describing Syncretism: Rules of referral after fifteen years
        Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University

ALTERNATE
        Laryngeal Neutralization in Lezghi
        Alan C. L. Yu, University of California, Berkeley


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2000

8:30    COFFEE

SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        ANGELIKA KRATZER
                                UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
BREAK

10:00   Imperfective Aspect and Event Participants in English, Chinese,
Korean and Japanese
        Juliet Wai-hong Du, University of Texas at Austin
10:30   From Imperfective to Progressive via Relative Present
        Elena Maslova, University of Bielefeld
11:00   Between perfective and past: Preterits in Turkic and Nakh-Daghestanian
        Sergei Tatevosov, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Moscow State
        University

LUNCH

SESSION II: PHONETICS
12:30   Compensatory lengthening without moras: A study in phonologization
        Darya Kavitskaya and Jonathan Barnes, University of California, Berkeley
1:00    Trace of F2 peaks as a quantitative descriptor of aspiration
        Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin
1:30    What is /l/?
        Joshua Guenter, University of California, Berkeley
2:00    On the accented/unaccented distinction in western Basque
        and the typology of accentual systems
        José Ignacio Hualde, Rajka Smiljanic and Jennifer Cole, University of
Illinois
2:30    INVITED SPEAKER:        SHERMAN WILCOX
                                UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
BREAK

SESSION III: SEMANTICS
3:30    The Need for the Resultative Network
        Cristiano Broccias, University of Pavia
4:00    A cognitive account of the English meronymic "by" phrase
        Monica Corston-Oliver, University of California, Berkeley
4:30    Referential Properties of Factive and Interrogative Complements
        Indicate their Semantics
        Michael Hegarty, Louisiana State University
5:00    The Distribution of Raising Constructions in French
        Michel Achard, Rice University
5:30    INVITED SPEAKER:        MICHAEL TOMASELLO
                                MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY AT LEIPZIG

ALTERNATE
        Vowel quality and voice quality correlations: A laryngeal account of their
origins
        Graham Thurgood, California State University, Fresno


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2000

8:30    COFFEE

SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        BETH LEVIN
                                STANFORD UNIVERSITY
BREAK

10:00   The semantics of Russian aspect: Accounting for the uses of the
imperfective
        Esther Wood, University of California, Berkeley
10:30   Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in Guyanese Creole
        Jack Sidnell, Northwestern University

SESSION II: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
11:00   Historical Development of Reported Speech in Chinese
        Jya-Lin Hwang, University of Hawaii, Manoa
11:30   Gesture, Lexical Words, and Grammar: Grammaticization Processes in ASL
        Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico

LUNCH

SESSION III: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
1:00    Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi
        Scott Schwenter and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University
1:30    Relation between gaze, head nodding and aizuti at a Japanese company
meeting
        Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota
2:00    The Korean Modal Marker keyss Revisited:
        A Marker of Achieved State of Intersubjectivity
        Kyung-Hee Suh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
        Kyu-hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University
2:30    Distributed (and Dissolved) Pragmatics
        Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University

3:00    INVITED SPEAKER:        WALT WOLFRAM
                                NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

ALTERNATE
        An Auto-Optimal Theory of Grammar: Disjunctive Agreement in Yasin Burushaski
        Gregory D.S. Anderson and Randall H. Eggert, University of Chicago



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