25.3341, Confs: Ling Theories, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Computational Ling/USA

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Subject: 25.3341, Confs: Ling Theories, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Computational Ling/USA

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:57:52
From: Rui Chaves [rchaves at buffalo.edu]
Subject: 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

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21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 
Short Title: HPSG 2014 

Date: 27-Aug-2014 - 29-Aug-2014 
Location: Buffalo New York, USA 
Contact: Anne Abeillé 
Contact Email: hpsg2014 at easychair.org 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/hpsg21/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

The 21st HPSG Conference will take place at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York (USA) on 28-29 August 2014.  

Invited Speakers:

Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego)
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts U.)

The main conference will be preceded by a workshop on 'Syntactic theory and understudied languages' on 27 August. There is a separate call for papers for the workshop. 

Invited Speakers: 

Matthew Dryer  (U. at Buffalo SUNY)
Philip LeSourd (Indiana U.)
George A. Broadwell (U. at Albany SUNY) 

Program:

Workshop on Understudied Languages and Syntactic Theory: August 27, 2014

8.00 – 9.00
Registration

9.00 – 9.10
Welcome

9.10 – 10.10
Invited Talk:

George A. Broadwell
''Wearing your semantic roles on your sleeve? The challenge of linking semantics and grammar for verbs of wearing in Two Oaxacan languages''

10.10 – 10.50
Michael Hahn
''Predication and NP Structure in an Omnipredicative Language: The Case of Khoekhoe''

10.50 – 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 – 11.50 
Cristin Kalinowski and Jeff Good
''Focus as a grammatical relation: Evidence from Africa''

11:50 – 12.30 
Shrita Hassamal and Anne Abeillé
''Degree adverbs in Mauritian Creole''

12:30 – 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 – 14.30
Invited Talk:

Philip LeSourd
''Raising and Long Distance Agreement in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: A Unified Analysis''

14.30 – 15.10
Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva
''Focus feature percolation: Evidence from Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir''

15.10 – 15:50 
Dong-Yi Lin
“Obligatory Control and Event Structure in Kavalan''

15.50 – 16.10 Coffee break

16.10 – 16.50
Pegah Faghiri, Pollet Samvelian and Barbara Hemforth
''Accessibility and Word Order: The case of ditransitive constructions in Persian''

16.50 – 17.50
Invited Talk:

Matthew Dryer
“Agreement phenomena in Walman, a language of Papua New Guinea''

17.50 – 18.00
Closing

Schedule for 2014 HPSG Conference (28 and 29 of August)

August 28, 2014

8.00 – 9.00
Registration

9.00 – 9.30
Welcome

9.30 – 10.40
Invited Talk:

Farrel Ackerman
“Systemic Motivation of 'Anomalies' in Grammar''

10.40 – 11.20 
Berthold Crysmann and Chris H. Reintges
''The polyfunctionality of Coptic Egyptian relative complementisers''

11.20 – 12.00
Abdulrahman Alqurashi and Bob Borsley
''The Comparative Correlative Construction in Modern Standard Arabic''

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 – 13.40
Tsuneko Nakazawa
''The Distribution of Resultatives in Japanese''

13.40 – 14.20
Juwon Lee
''Two Types of Serial Verb Constructions in Korean: Subject-Sharing and Index-Sharing''

14.20 – 15.00 Coffee break

15.00 – 15.40
Rui P. Chaves and Jeruen E. Dery
''Nobody expects tensed subject parasitic gaps''

15.40 – 16.20
Frank Van Eynde and Liesbeth Augustinus
''Complement raising, extraction and adposition stranding in Dutch''

16.30 – 17.30
Tribute to Ivan A. Sag

17.30 – 18.30
Business meeting

19.00 Conference Dinner	

August 29, 2014

9.00 – 9.30
Registration

9.30 – 10.40
Invited Talk:

Ray Jackendoff
''What Can You Say Without Syntax? A Grammatical Hierarchy''

10.40 – 11.20
Philippa Cook
''Between complex predicates and regular phrases: some collocational combinations in German''

11.20 – 12.00 
Petter Haugereid
''VP idioms in Norwegian: A subconstructional approach''

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 – 13.30
Poster & Demo session

13.30 – 14.10 
Olga Zamaraeva and Emily Bender
''Focus Case outside of Austronesian: An Analysis of Yukaghir''

14.10 – 14.50 
Ruth Morrison and David Inman
''Negation in Nanti: Syntactic Evidence for Head and Dependent Negators''

14.50 – 15.20 Coffee break

15.20 – 16.00
Jean-Pierre Koenig and Karin Michelson
''Deconstructing SYNtax''

16.00 – 16.40
Doug Arnold and Bob Borsley
''An analysis of English exhaustive conditionals''

16.40 – 17.00
Closing

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