17.2930, Confs: General Ling/USA

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Date: 04-Oct-2006
From: Karlos Arregi < karlos at uiuc.edu >
Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 

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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:47:14
From: Karlos Arregi < karlos at uiuc.edu >
Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 

37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 
Short Title: NELS 37 

Date: 13-Oct-2006 - 15-Oct-2006 
Location: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 
Contact: Karlos Arregi 
Contact Email: nels-37 at uiuc.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.nels.uiuc.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 37 (N37S)

Including a General Session, a Poster Session, and Special Sessions on Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics, and the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles

October 13-15, 2006
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will host NELS 37 on October 13-15.

This year, UIUC Linguistics is celebrating its 40th anniversary. As part of the celebration, we are pleased to present a lecture by Professor Jerry Saddock (University of Chicago) on the day before NELS 37:

In Opposition to the Number Three

Professor Jerrold Sadock
University of Chicago
October 12, 2006
7PM at Illini Union 314A

Information on this event and on NELS 37, including registration, transportation, hotels, and the program, is available at the conference website:

http://www.nels.uiuc.edu

NELS 37 PROGRAM

All sessions will be held at the Levis Faculty Center (on the third floor, unless otherwise noted.)

FRIDAY, October 13

9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks

9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 1: SYNTAX

Chair: Karlos Arregi, UIUC

Seungwan Ha, Boston University: Contrastive Focus: Licensor for Right Node Raising

Youngju Choi & James Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Argument Cluster Coordination and Constituency Test (Non-)Conflicts

Kirsten Gengel, University of Stuttgart: Phases and Ellipsis

11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 2: SYNTAX/SEMANTICS

Chair: James Yoon, UIUC

Koji Kawahara, University of York: A New Perspective on Japanese Sika-Nai Constructions

Masahiko Aihara, University of Connecticut: Japanese Superlative Constructions: Evidence for 'est'-movement

Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University: On Locative Empty Pronouns and Anti-Quantifier Zutsu in Japanese

2:30-3:30 INVITED SPEAKER

Norval  Smith,  University  of Amsterdam: Creole phonology: No such discipline, but what a lot you can learn from it!

Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC

3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY OF PIDGINS & CREOLES

Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, UIUC

Sharon Gerlach, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: A constraint-based analysis of coda consonant reflexes in Haitian Creole

Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin: Verb Allomorphy in French-related Creoles

Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University/ISC: On the structuring role of grammaticalized morpho-syntactic features

5:30-6:30 POSTER SESSION 1

Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango

Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more  than  Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions

Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean

Laura Rimell, New York University: Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis

Jonathan Brennan, New York University: Only, Finally

Jon Nissenbaum, McGill University: Decomposing Resultatives: Two kinds of restitutive readings with Again

Gabriella Tóth, University of Szeged: Some Remarks on the Functional Domain of Small Clauses

Kristín Jóhannsdóttir & Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia: Future in a supposedly tenseless language

Bernhard Schwarz, McGill University: Reciprocal equatives

Stefan Hinterwimmer, Humboldt University of Berlin: If vs. when, wenn
vs.  als: microvariation in the semantics of conditional and temporal
complementizers in English and German

6:30-7:30 INVITED SPEAKER

Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Spellout, phrase stress, and the prosodization of verbs

Chair: Jennifer Cole, UIUC

SATURDAY, October 14

Main sessions 3 and 4 are held in parallel

9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY (Reading Room)

Chair: Chilin Shih, UIUC

Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Phonotactic Learning and Phonological Typology

Jeffrey Heinz, University of California, Los Angeles: Learning Unbounded Stress Systems Via Local Inference

Lisa Shiozaki, University of Massachusetts, Amherst : Category and Position as Correlates in Determining Patterns of Default Accentuation in Japanese: Evidence from Nonce Words

9:30-11:00 MAIN SESSION 4: SYNTAX

Chair: Elabbas Benmamoun, UIUC

Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut: wollP: Where syntax and semantics meet

Xuan Di, Universitetet i Tromsø¸: Syntactic Evidence for Tense Heads in Mandarin Chinese (Beijing Dialect)

Shin Fukuda, University of California, San Diego: The projection of telicity in Vietnamese

Main sessions 5 and 6 are held in parallel

11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 5: PHONOLOGY (reading room)

Chair: Zsuzsanna Fagyal, UIUC

Andrew Martin, University of California, Los Angeles: The Correlation of Markedness and Frequency: Emergent or Innate?

Adam Wayment, Luigi Burzio, Donald Mathis & Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University: Harmony versus Distance in Phonetic Enhancement

Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe College Weak Derived Environment Effect

11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 6: SYNTAX (parallel)

Chair: Rakesh Mohan Bhatt, UIUC

Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa: The syntax of abstract and concrete finals in Ojibwe

Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Stanford University: Monotonicity at the lexical semantics-morphosyntax interface

Florian  Schäfer,  University  of  Stuttgart:  Middles as Voiced Anticausatives

2:30-3:30 INVITED SPEAKER

J. Kathryn Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Reaching Agreement

Chiar: Silvina Montrul

3:45-5:15 SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTACTIC THEORY & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Chair: Jerome Packard, UIUC

Keir Moulton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Small Antecedents: Syntax or Pragmatics?

Christina Kim, University of California, Los Angeles: Structural and Thematic Information in Sentence Production

Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel  S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester: The real-time  interpretation  of  pronouns and reflexives: Structural and non-structural information

5:30-6:30 POSTER SESSION 2

Gwanhi  Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap

Andrea  Cattaneo,  New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication

Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish

Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House!

Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications

Tomoyuki Yabe, CUNY Graduate Center: Applicative Constructions and the Remerge of a Functional Preposition

Candice Cheung Chi Hang, University of Southern California: An ATB account of Chinese bare conditionals

Miki Obata, University of Michigan: How Well Features Match: On the Disappearance of Superiority Effects

Chyan-an Arthur Wang, New York University: Sluicing and Resumption

Keun Young Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Quantified Noun Phrases in a Head-Final Language

Oana Savescu Ciucivara, New York University: Hungry Experiencers

6:30-7:30 INVITED SPEAKER

Peter Lasersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Relative Truth, Speaker Commitment, and Control of Implicit Arguments

Chair: Roxana Girju, UIUC

8:30 DINNER

SUNDAY, October 15

10:00-11:00 INVITED SPEAKER

Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz: Verbs of Existence and the Definiteness Effect

Chair: Richard Sproat, UIUC

Main sessions 7 and 8 are held in parallel

11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 7: SEMANTICS (Reading Room)

Chair: Peter Lasersohn, UIUC

Youri Zabbal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: A Semantics for Free Choice Indifference in French

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS Paris VII & Alda Mari, CNRS Institut Jean Nicod: Constraints on quantificational domains: generic plural `des'-indefinites in French

Sarah Hulsey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: An argument from gapping for a Hamblin semantics for disjunction

11:30-1:00 MAIN SESSION 8: SYNTAX

Chair: Eyamba G. Bokamba, UIUC

Seth Cable, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Wh-Fronting is a By-Product of Q-Movement: Evidence from Tlingit

Marijana  Marelj,  Utrecht  University: A Left Branch Extraction Perspective on Bound Variables and Pronoun Insertion Strategy

Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut: What will you have, DP or NP?

1:00-2:00 BUSINESS MEETING

ALTERNATE SPEAKERS

PHONOLOGY

Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz: Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango

Gwanhi Yun, University of Arizona & Defense Language Institute: Phonologically-conditioned Gestural Overlap

SEMANTICS

Aniko Csirmaz, Carleton College: Durative adverbs: peculiarities and implications

SYNTACTIC THEORY & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Nayoung Kwon, University of California, San Diego: Case Marking Signals more than Structure Building: Processing Evidence from Korean Double Nominative Constructions

SYNTAX

Miok Pak, Paul Portner & Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University: Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean

Andrea Cattaneo, New York University: Italian Null Objects and Resultative/Depictive Predication

Miguel Rodríuez-Mondoñedo, University of Connecticut: A [person] restriction on the Definiteness Effect in Spanish

Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario: Great coffee, that Maxwell House!

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