7.230, Confs: West Coast Conf on Formal Ling

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Subject: 7.230, Confs: West Coast Conf on Formal Ling
 
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Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:38:44 PST
From:  wccfl at orion.oac.uci.edu (wccfl)
Subject:  WCCFL-XV Revised Program (2/12/96)
 
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Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:38:44 PST
From:  wccfl at orion.oac.uci.edu (wccfl)
Subject:  WCCFL-XV Revised Program (2/12/96)
 
 
Below is the revised program for WCCFL-XV---
 
 
WCCFL XV
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
University of California, Irvine
February 29 - March 3, 1996
 
 
REVISED PROGRAM (2/12/96)
 
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 (In Emerald Bay E, Student Center)
 
12:00-1:00  REGISTRATION
1:00-1:30   WELCOME
 
Session 1  Syntax
1:30-2:00  Arnold Zwicky (Stanford University/Ohio State University)
           Conflicts between Conditions: When are They Resolvable?
2:00-2:30  Elabbas Benmamoun (University of London)
           Agreement in Arabic and the PF Interface
2:30-3:00  Larisa Zlatic & Steve Wechsler (U of Texas at Austin)
           Mixed Agreement in Serbian: A Constraint-Based Approach
 
Session 2  Semantics
3:15-3:45  Michael Hegarty (University of Minnesota)
           Some Results of Treating Certain Measure Quantifiers as
	   Mass Quantifiers
3:45-4:15  Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
           Parametric Variation in Determiner Systems:
	   Salish vs. English
4:15-4:45  Edward Rubin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
           The Transparent Syntax and Semantics of Modifiers
 
 
FRIDAY, March 1 (In Emerald Bay C, Student Center)
(BOOK EXHIBIT: 10:00-4:00, Crescent Bay A)
 
Session 3   Phonology
9:30-10:00  Daniel Silverman (University of California, Los Angeles)
            Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec
10:00-10:30 Edward Keer (Rutgers University)
            Glide Insertion Asymmetries
10:30-11:00 Haruo Kubozono (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
            Lexical Markedness and Variation:
	    A Nonderivational Account
 
11:15-12:15 Invited Speaker: John McCarthy (U of Massachusetts,
                             Amherst)
            Faithfulness and Circumscription
 
- - Lunch break ---
 
Session 4  Semantics
1:30-2:00  Gerhard Jager (Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Grammatik
	   der MPG)
           The Stage/Individual Contrast Revisited
2:00-2:30  Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford/U of Texas, Austin)
           Presuppositional Polarity Items in Counterfactuals
2:30-3:00  Vivienne Fong (Stanford University)
           A Temporal Interpretation for Locative Case
 
Session 5  Phonology
3:15-3:45  Peter Avery & Greg Lamontagne (York U & Rutgers
           University)
           A Note on Tagalog Infixation
3:45-4:15  Andrew Dolbey (University of California, Berkeley)
           Output Optimization and Cyclic Allomorph Selection
4:15-4:45  Charles Reiss (Concordia University)
           Underspecification and Natural Classes: Unifying the
           Interpretation of Structural Descriptions
 
Session 6  Syntax
5:00-5:30  Mark Arnold (University of Maryland)
           Double Object Constructions and Indirect Object Passives:
           Problems Posed by History
5:30-6:00  Roumyana Slabakova (McGill University)
           How Light is a Light Verb?
6:00-6:30  Heidi Harley (Brown University/Universite de Lille 3)
           If You Have, You can Give
6:30-7:00  Eric Potsdam (University of California, Santa Cruz)
           The Parallel Structure of English Questions
	   and Imperatives
 
 
SATURDAY, March 2 (In Emerald Bay AB, Student Center)
 (BOOK EXHIBIT: 10:00-4:00, Crescent Bay A)
 
Session 7    Native American Languages (Phonology)
10:15-10:50  Kevin Russell & Charlotte Reinholtz (U of Manitoba)
             Non-Configurationality and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
10:50-11:20  Lisa Davidson & Rolf Noyer (Brown University)
             Loan Phonology in Huave: Nativization and the Ranking of
             Faithfulness Constraints
11:20-11:50  Colleen Fitzgerald (University of Arizona)
             Degenerate Feet and Morphology in Tohono O'odham
 
- - Business Meeting & Lunch ---
 
Session 8  Native American Languages (Syntax)
1:45-2:15  Felicia Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)
           Aspect, Negation and Temporal Polarity in Zapotec
2:15-2:45  Steven Lapointe (University of California, Davis)
           Navajo Deictic Subject Pronouns and the Generation of
           Inflections
2:45-3:15  Lynn Nichols (Harvard University)
           Overt LF Movement in Zuni Syntax
 
3:25-4:25  Invited Speaker: Eloise Jelinek (University of Arizona)
           Anaphora and Focus in Navajo
 
Session 9  Syntax
4:30-5:00  Hajime Hoji (University of Southern California)
           Sloppy Identity and Bound Variable Anaphora
5:00-5:30  Chung-hye Han & Laura Siegel (University of Pennsylvania)
           Syntactic and Semantic Conditions on the Licensing of
	   NPIs in Questions
5:30-6:00  Ricardo Echepare (University of Maryland)
           A Case for Two Types of Focus in Basque
6:00-6:30  Takashi Toyoshima (Kyoto Univ. (JSPS Research Fellow)/
	   Cornell University)
           Derivational CED: A Consequence of the Bottom-up Parallel
           Process of Merge and Attract
 
 
6:30 RECEPTION at University Club  (See Campus Map)
 
 
SUNDAY, March 3 (In Monarch Bay A, Student Center)
 
Session 10  Phonology
9:00-9:30   Laura Benua (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
            Overapplication in Sundanese Plural Infixation: The
	    Role of Transderivational Identity
9:30-10:00  Margaret MacEachern (U of California, Los Angeles)
            Laryngeal Similarity Effects in Quechua and Aymara
10:00-10:30 Heather Goad (McGill University)
            Coronals Are Not Underspecified
 
Session 11  Syntax and Language Acquisition
10:45-11:15 Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)
            The Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Root Infinitives
	    in Child Languages
11:15-11:45 Colin Phillips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
            Linear Order and Contradictory Constituency
11:45-12:15 Cathal Doherty (University College Dublin)
            Predicate-Initial Constructions in Irish
12:15-12:45 Joao Costa (HIL\Leiden University)
            Position for Subjects in European Portuguese
 
 
ALTERNATES
 
Eric Bakovic (Rutgers University)
Quantitative Adjustments in Yupic
 
Filippo Beghelli (University of Pennsylvania)
Subjacency and the Scope of Indefinites
 
Michael Kim (Universtiy of Chicago)
Tonal Predictability from Metrical Structure in Northern Tepehuan
 
James Lyle (University of Washington)
Oblique Subjects and Nominative Anaphors
 
Rolf Noyer (Brown University)
Pharyngeal-Laryngeal Pitch Accent in Imbat Ket
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