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Date: 14-Aug-2011
From: Nora Boneh [nora.boneh at gmail.com]
Subject: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
 

	
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From: Nora Boneh [nora.boneh at gmail.com]
Subject: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

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27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 
Short Title: IATL 27 

Date: 24-Oct-2011 - 25-Oct-2011 
Location: Haifa, Israel 
Contact: Nora Boneh 
Contact Email: bonehn at mscc.huji.ac.il 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The 27th Annual Meeting  
Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

Dates October 24-25 (Monday/Tuesday), 2011 
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/

Invited Speaker:

Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca
Bencie Woll, University College London

IATL 27, The 27th Annual Meeting of The Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at The University of Haifa on October 24-25, 2011. 

Monday, October 24, 2011

9:30-10:10  
Registration and coffee

10:10       
Welcoming remarks

10:20-11:20 
~Invited Speaker~ 
Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca (work in collaboration with Alan Langus)
Different Cognitive Systems Struggling for Word Order
             
11:20-11:40 
Coffee break

11:40-12:20 
Gabi Danon, Bar Ilan University 
Agreement Features and Non-agreeing Copulas in Modern Hebrew

12:20-13:00 
Lena Ibnbari, Ben-Gurion University 
Russian Gerundive Gaps as Topic Drop

13:00-14:30 
Lunch

14:30-15:10 
Sascha Alexeyenko, University of Osnabrück
A Slow Typist When Tired: On Adverbial Modifiers of Predicative Nominals

15:10-15:50 
Aviya Hacohen, Dana Kozlowski and Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University
Superlative Quantifiers as Speech Act Modifiers: Experimental Evidence from Hebrew

15:50-16:30 
Chen Gafni, Tel-Aviv University 
The role of Consonant Harmony in Child Language

16:30-16:50 
Coffee break

16:50-17:00
Wendy Sandler, Haifa University
Introduction to the Sign Language Sessions

17:00-17:40 
Vadim Kimmelman, University of Amsterdam
Doubling in RSL and NGT - a Unified Account

17:40-18:20 
Christina Healy, Svetlana Dachkovsky and Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa
The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
9:30-10:30  ~Invited Speaker~ 
Bencie Woll, University College London.
Using a Linguistic Savant's Learning of British Sign Language to Explore Linguistic Theory
  			
10:30-10:50 
Coffee break
  			
10:50-11:30 
Roland Pfau and Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam
Spatial Adpositions in Sign Languages

11:30-12:10 
Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach, University of Goettingen
Strategies of rRference in German Sign Language Fables             
  	 	
12:10-12:30 
Business Meeting

12:30-13:40 
Lunch
		
13:40-14:20 
Yaron Mcnabb, University of Chicago
Hebrew Definite Marking as Post-Syntactic Local Dislocation

14:20-15:00 
Fabienne Martin and Florian Schaefer, University of Stuttgart
The Argument Structure of Abstract Verbs with Manner/result Readings

15:00-15:20 
Coffee break
	
15:20-16:00 
Keren Kharizman and Yael Greenberg, Bar Ilan University
Bixlal: A General Strengthening Operator in Hebrew 
  		
16:00-16:40 
Micha Y. Breakstone, MIT/Hebrew University
Inherent Evaluativity

16:40-17:20 
Galit W. Sassoon, University of Amsterdam
A Slightly Modified Economy Principle: Stable Properties have Non-stable Standards








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