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The Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (Venice
FEAST) conference will take place at Auditorium Santa Margherita in
Venice on June, 20-22.<br>
The official languages of the conference will be English and ASL.
ASL/English interpreting will be provided. <br><br>
Further info are available in the conference website:
<a href="http://virgo.unive.it/venicefeast/">
http://virgo.unive.it/venicefeast/</a><br><br>
Although there is no registration fee, if you plan to attend the
conference, please inform the organizers by sending an e-mail to:
venicefeast@unive.it <br><br>
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Conference Program<br>
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June, 20 <br><br>
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9.00 - 9.30 Registration <br><br>
9.30 - 10.30 TBA <br>
Markus Steinbach (Georg-August University of Goettingen) <br><br>
10.30 - 11.20 <br>
Binding theory and sign languages: the role of signing space <br>
Vadim Kimmelman (Universiteit van Amsterdam) <br><br>
11.20 - 11-40 Coffee break <br><br>
11.40 - 12.30 <br>
A unified account of specificity in Catalan Sign Language <br>
Gemma Barberà (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) <br><br>
12.30 - 13.20 <br>
Event descriptions and classifier predicates in SLs <br>
Alessandro Zucchi (Università degli Studi di Milano) <br><br>
13.20 - 15.00 Lunch break <br><br>
15.00 - 15.50 <br>
Animacy in relative clause constructions in Turkish Sign Language <br>
Okan Kubus and Christian Rathmann (Universität Hamburg) <br><br>
15.50 - 16.40 <br>
The position of fronted and postposed relative clauses in Catalan Sign
Language <br>
Marta Mosella Sanz (Universitat de Barcelona) <br><br>
16.40 - 17.20 <br>
Poster Presentations <br><br>
17.20 - 18.10 <br>
Poster Session <br><br>
18.10 - 19.00 <br>
A non-hybrid approach to sign language agreement <br>
Roland Pfau, Martin Salzmann, Markus Steinbach (Universiteit van
Amsterdam, <br>
Universität Zürich, Georg-August University of Goettingen) <br><br>
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June, 21 <br><br>
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9.00 - 10.00 TBA <br>
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University) <br><br>
10.00 - 10.50 <br>
Processing spatial verbs: An ERP study to examine lexical access in sign
recognition <br>
Jana Hosemann, Annika Herrmann, Markus Steinbach and Matthias Schlesewsky
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(Georg-August University of Goettingen, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz) <br><br>
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10.50 - 11-10 Coffee break <br><br>
11.10 - 12.00 <br>
Experimental testing of an unaccusative analysis of ASL classifiers <br>
Vanja De Lint (Radboud University Nijmegen & International Max Planck
Research) <br><br>
12.00 - 12.50 <br>
Simultaneous mixing in bimodals and bilinguals <br>
Chiara Branchini and Caterina Donati (Università degli Studi di
Milano-Bicocca, <br>
Università di Roma-La Sapienza) <br><br>
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12.50 - 14.30 Lunch break <br><br>
14.30 - 15.20 <br>
Focus on Focus: A feature geometry for focus, definiteness, and
specificity <br>
Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue Univeristy) <br><br>
15.20 - 16.10 <br>
Wh-questions in Catalan Sign Language: Evidence for Rightward Movement
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Celia Alba de la Torre (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) <br><br>
16.10 - 16.50 <br>
Poster Presentations <br><br>
16.50 – 17.40 <br>
Poster Session <br><br>
17.40 - 18.30 <br>
Temporal and Modal Anaphora in ASL <br>
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS and New York University)
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18.30 - 19.30 Business Meeting <br><br>
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Social Dinner <br>
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June, 22 <br><br>
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9.00 - 10.00 TBA <br>
Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University) <br><br>
10.00 - 10.50 <br>
H1/H2 Shift as Switch Reference in Serial Verb Construction: parametric
variation. <br>
Elena Benedicto (Purdue University) <br><br>
10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break <br><br>
11.10 - 12.00 <br>
Null objects in ASL: The case of (indefinite) argument ellipsis <br>
Helen Koulidobrova (University of Connecticut) <br><br>
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch break <br><br>
13.30 - 14.20 <br>
Part-of-Speech Tests in American Sign Language <br>
Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath (University of Connecticut) <br><br>
14.20 - 15.10 <br>
Handshape complexity in sign languages: Its relevance for historical
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development, typology, and Acquisition <br>
Diane Brentari, Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas (Purdue Univeristy, University
of <br>
Connecticut, Barnard College of Columbia University) <br><br>
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Poster sessions: <br><br>
June, 20 <br><br>
The syntactic structure of nested spreading domains <br>
Asly Goksel and Meltem Kelepir (Bogaziçi University) <br><br>
Why Agreement Matters: The Syntax of Relative Clauses in American Sign
Language <br>
Teresa Galloway (Cornell University) <br><br>
LIS: Antisymmetry and IP <br>
Michele Brunelli (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) <br><br>
P in Indian Sign Language <br>
Samar Sinha (Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore) <br><br>
June, 21 <br><br>
Spatial and visual memory. Which one does signing enhances (if any)?
<br>
Marta Crespi, Leonor Romero and Costanza Papagno <br>
(Università di Milano-Bicocca) <br><br>
LSE-Sign: a database tool for research into sign language processing
<br>
Brendan Costello, Eva Gutiérrez-Sigut , Cristina Baus and Manuel
Carreiras <br>
(Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, University of California
Davis, <br>
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, IKERBASQUE, UPV/EHU) <br><br>
Formalism for multi-linear rules of Sign Language grammars <br>
Michael Filhol (LIMSI-CNRS) <br><br>
Lexematic units and highly iconic structures in Italian Sign Language:
New <br>
methods of analysis aided by ad hoc software <br>
C.S. Bianchini, A. Di Renzo, T. Lucioli, F. Borgia, G. Gianfreda, P.
Rossini <br>
(CNR-Roma, Université Paris 8, Univeristà di Perugia, Université Toulouse
III, <br>
Università di Roma-La Sapienza) <br><br>
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