WARSAW FEAST CONFERENCE - Program

[Paweł Rutkowski]

Warsaw FEAST ("Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language 
Theory") to be held in Warsaw, Poland, on June 1-2, will be organized 
within the framework of the SIGNGRAM COST Action ("Unraveling the 
grammars of European sign languages: pathways to full citizenship of 
deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage").

Meeting URL: http://www.plm.uw.edu.pl/FEAST.php


Meeting description:

The grammars of sign languages are as highly complex as the grammars of 
spoken languages and share with them many universal features, despite 
the difference in modality between spoken languages (which use the 
auditory channel) and sign languages (which use the visual channel). 
Yet, sign languages also differ from spoken languages in radical ways: 
morphological information in sign languages is often conveyed 
simultaneously by different articulators rather than linearly; moreover, 
certain aspects of their phonological, syntactic and semantic structures 
are not commonly found in spoken languages. These differences raise an 
interesting challenge both for formal linguistic and experimental 
research frameworks. Warsaw FEAST is the second meeting for this 
conference (the first one was Venice FEAST in June, 2011). FEAST is 
becoming a regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language 
grammar (in particular in the generative tradition), experimental 
approaches to sign languages, and their interaction.

Registration:

Note that although there is no conference fee, all participants 
(including persons interested in attending the conference without 
presenting a paper) are required to register via email. Please register 
your name, affiliation, and e-mail address with us at FEAST at uw.edu.pl

Languages:

The official languages of the conference will be English and American 
Sign Language (ASL). ASL/English interpretation will be provided. 
Additionally, all presentations will be interpreted into Polish Sign 
Language (PJM).

Program:

June 1, 2012 (Friday)

8.00 - 9.00 Registration

9.00 - 9.30 Opening remarks

9.30 - 10.20 — Invited talk:

L2-acquisition of two types of nonconcatenative morphology in German 
Sign Language

Christian Rathmann (University of Hamburg, Germany)

10.20 - 11.10

Online segmentation of signed narratives: The importance of visual 
markers for boundary perception

Jordan Fenlon (Gallaudet University, USA), Bencie Woll (University 
College London, UK)

11.10 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 12.20

Is ABSL a language without phonology?

Joana Rosselló (University of Barcelona, Spain), Celia Alba (Pompeu 
Fabra University, Spain)

12.20 - 13.10

Categorical vs. gradient: What ASL fingerspelling teaches us about the 
phonetics-phonology interface

Diane Brentari, Jon Keane, and Jason Riggle (University of Chicago, USA)

13.10 - 13.30 Business meeting

13.30 - 15.00 Lunch break

15.00 - 15.50 — Invited talk:

The point of verb agreement

Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University, USA)

15.50 - 16.40

WH duplication and beyond

Chiara Branchini (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy), Carlo Geraci 
(Institut Jean-Nicod, France), Anna Cardinaletti (Università Ca' Foscari 
Venezia, Italy), Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy), 
Caterina Donati (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)

16.40 - 17.15

Poster Presentations:

Agreement verbs in ÍTM

Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir, Rannveig 
Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)

Existential statements and domain restriction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

Gemma Barberà (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

Null subjects in ASL: The case of argument ellipsis with an attitude

Elena Koulidobrova, Kathryn Davidson (University of Connecticut, USA)

Sign language & language universals: The case of Universal 20 in Italian 
sign language

Lara Mantovan (Dipartimento di scienze del linguaggio, Ca' Bembo, 
Italy), Carlo Geraci (Institut Jean-Nicod, France)

Binding complexity and the status of pronouns in English and ASL

Natasha Abner, Thomas Graf (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

An analysis for restrictive circumnominal relative clauses with focus on SLs

Marta Mosella (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Disentangling free relative clauses in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Chiara Branchini (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)

17.15 - 17.30 Coffee break

17.30 - 18.10

Poster Session

18.10 - 19.00

Three kinds of iconicity in sign language pronominals: A formal approach

Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, France, New York University, 
USA), Mirko Santoro (Institut Jean-Nicod, France, University of Venice, 
Italy), Jon Lamberton (New York, USA)

June 2, 2012 (Saturday)

9.00 - 9.50 — Invited talk:

What can research on atypical signing tell us about the linguistics of 
sign languages?

Bencie Woll (University College London, UK)

9.50 - 10.40

Language switch costs and dual-task costs in bimodal language production

Emily Kaufmann, Thomas Kaul (University of Cologne, Germany)

10.40 - 11.30

WH-questions in bimodal bilinguals — Evidence for language synthesis

Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut, USA), Ronice Müller de 
Quadros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil), Deborah Chen 
Pichler (Gallaudet University, USA), Elena Koulidobrova (University of 
Connecticut, USA)

11.30 - 11.50 Coffee break

11.50 - 12.40

The SAME constituent structure

Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy), Alessandra 
Checchetto (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy), Carlo Geraci 
(Institut Jean-Nicod, France), Sandro Zucchi (University of Milan, Italy)

12.40 - 13.30

A modality-free account of the position of clausal arguments

Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

13.30 - 15.00 Lunch break

15.00 - 15.50

PERSON climbing up a tree (and other adventures in sign language 
grammaticalization)

Roland Pfau (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Markus 
Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität, Germany)

15.50 - 16.40

Testing condition C and crossover effects in ASL

Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University, USA), Philippe Schlenker (Institut 
Jean-Nicod, France, New York University, USA)

16.40 - 17.10

Poster Presentations:

Hand in hand: The grammar of space at the articulatory-perceptive interface

Carlo Geraci (Institut Jean-Nicod, France)

Morphophonological constraints on a negation prefix in Polish Sign 
Language (PJM)

Piotr Tomaszewski (University of Warsaw, Poland)

An Optimality-Theoretic syntactic typology of negation in four sign 
languages

Kadir Gökgöz, Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University, USA)

A preliminary description and analysis of the phonology of Portuguese 
Sign Language for computational modeling purposes

Mara Moita, Patrícia Carmo, José Pedro Ferreira, Ana Mineiro (Insituto 
de Linguística Teórica e Computacional, Portugal)

Spatial references in sign and speech: A crosslinguistic view on 
cross-modal bilingualism

Ainhoa Moiua (University of Mondragon, Spain), Inés García-Azkoaga 
(University of the Basque Country, Spain), Arantza Ozaeta (University 
of Mondragon, Spain)

Russian Sign Language dialects or independent national sign languages

Tatiana Davidenko, Anna Komarova (G.Zaitseva Centre for Deaf Studies and 
Bilingual Education, Russia)

17.10 - 17.30 Coffee break

17.30 - 18.10

Poster Session

18.10 - 19.00

Getting together a POSSe: The primacy of predication in ASL possessives

Natasha Abner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Ranked Alternates:

1. Agreement verbs in ÍTM

Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir, Rannveig 
Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)

2. Disentangling free relative clauses in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Chiara Branchini (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)

3. Hand in hand: The grammar of space at the articulatory-perceptive 
interface

Carlo Geraci (Institut Jean-Nicod, France)



On behalf of the organizing committee,


Paweł Rutkowski


-- 
Dr Paweł Rutkowski
Kierownik Pracowni Lingwistyki Migowej
Wydział Polonistyki
Uniwersytet Warszawski

Paweł Rutkowski, PhD
Section for Sign Linguistics, Head
Faculty of Polish Studies
University of Warsaw

www.plm.uw.edu.pl/rutkowski
www.plm.uw.edu.pl

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