15.1411, Confs: General Linguistics/Ramat Gan, Israel

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

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Date:  Mon, 3 May 2004 02:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:  armonls at mail.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: armonls at mail.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

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