20.3358, Confs: Lang Acq, Morphology, Syntax, Ling Theories, Typology/Spain

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Subject: 20.3358, Confs: Lang Acq, Morphology, Syntax, Ling Theories, Typology/Spain

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Date: 05-Oct-2009
From: Itziar Laka < itziar.laka at ehu.es >
Subject: Ehu International Workshop on Ergativity

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:43:00
From: Itziar Laka [itziar.laka at ehu.es]
Subject: Ehu International Workshop on Ergativity

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Ehu International Workshop on Ergativity 

Date: 04-Nov-2009 - 06-Nov-2009 
Location: Bilbao, Spain 
Contact: Itziar Laka 
Contact Email: ergativity at ehu.es 
Meeting URL: http://www.kongresuak.ehu.es/p275-shergahm/en 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

Approximately twenty five percent of the world's languages exhibit ergativity in their grammars. Despite the growing amount of recent research on ergativity, there is no shared understanding yet on its nature, or on how to implement it in linguistic theory, and despite advances made in the last decades in the areas of language acquisition and natural language processing, it is still unknown what the impact of ergativity and other associated linguistic phenomena is in language development and processing.

Given recent funding granted, the conference no longer has a registration fee. 

November 4, Wednesday

09:00 Registration

10:00 Anoop Mahajan (UCLA): 'The Syntax of Antipassives and Ergatives'  

11:00 Coffe Break

11:30 Lucie Medová (University of South Bohemia): 'Antipassives and Reflexives'

12:00 Edith Aldridge (University of Washintong): 'Antipassive and Ergativity in Tagalog' 

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Junkal Gutierrez (University of the Basque Country): 'Asymmetries in the
Comprehension of Wh-movement in L1 Basque'

15:00 Marijo Ezeizabarrena & Ibon Manterola (University of the Basque Country): 'The Inconsistent Ergative Marking in the Acquisition of Basque: L1 and Early L2'

15:30 Coffe Break

16:00 Jennifer Austin (Rutgers University, Newark): 'The Case Hierarchy in Acquisition: Evidence from Children Learning Basque'

16:30 Andoni Barreña (University of Salamanca): 'Similarities and Differences Observed in Casemarking in the Acquisition of Basque as L1, 2L1 or Child-L2 '

November 5, Thursday

09:30 Julie Legate (University of Pennsylvania) Types of Ergativity

10:30 Coffe Break

11:00 Leticia Pablos (University of the Basque Country): 'Agreement and Case Marking as Clause Boundary Inducers in Basque' 

11:30 Adam Zawiszewski (MPI, Leipzig): 'Electrophysiological Correlates of Ergativity: Evidence from Basque'

12:00 M. Polinsky (Harvard U.), B. Harizanov (U. of California at Santa Cruz), Y. Testelets (Russian U.): 'Ergative Gaps Are Harder to Process: Evidence from Avar'

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Elisabeth Verhoeven (University of Bremen): 'Ergativity in Cabécar (Chibcha): Syntactic Properties and Hehavioural Data'

15:00 Gilles Authier: 'Origins of Ergative Case-marking in Lezgic' 

15:30 Coffe Break

16:00 Ralf Vollmann (Karl-Franzens-Universität): 'Optional Ergative Case Marking in Tibetan'

16:30 Jayshree Chakraborty: 'Telicity and Boundedness: An Analysis of Hindi Ergativity in Aspectual Frame'

19: 30 Conference Dinner

November 6, Friday

09:30 Esther Torrego (Umass Boston): 'Aspects of Case and Agreement'

10:30 Coffe Break

11:00 Jessica Coon (MIT): 'Rethinking Aspectually Based Split Ergativity'

11:30 Vita Markman (NeuralIQ, Santa Monica, CA) & Pavel Grashchenkov (Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow): 'On the Adpositional Nature of Ergative Subjects: Ergative 'case' is not Case'

12:00 Omer Preminger (MIT): 'Basque Unergatives, Case-competition, and Ergative as Inherent Case'

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Andrea Drocco (Turin University): 'The Restoration of the Ergative Case-marking of Ain the Past in Western New Indo-Aryan: the Case of the Braja Language' 

15:00 Edit Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge): 'The Origins of Morphological Ergativity: Evidence from Neo-Aramaic'

15:30 Coffe Break

16:00 Antje Lahne (Universität Konstanz): 'A New View on Mahajan's Generalisation'

16:30 Tarald Taraldsen (University of Tromsø): 'Case-alignment and Verb Placement'

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