BLS Schedule
Alan Yu
charon at UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU
Tue Dec 15 04:10:59 UTC 1998
The 25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
FEBRUARY 12-15, 1998
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SPECIAL SESSION: CAUCASIAN, DRAVIDIAN, AND TURKIC LINGUISTICS
Fri Feb 12, 1999, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
PARASESSION: LOAN WORD PHENOMENA
Together with the General Session: Sat-Mon Feb 13-15, 1999, Room C230
Cheit Hall, UC Berkeley
Further info: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 12, 1999: SPECIAL SESSION
8:00 REGISTRATION
MORNING SESSION
9:00 Word games and the hidden phonology of Tuvan
K. David Harrison, Yale University
9:30 Epenthesis-Driven Harmony in Turkish
Abigail Kaun, Yale University
10:00 TBA
Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
10:40 Language policy and reforms of Uighur and Kazakh writing systems in
China
Minglang Zhou, University of Colorado at Boulder
11:10 Interpreting genitives in Turkish
Mürvet Enc, University of Wisconsin, Madison
11:40 ********** LUNCH **********
AFTERNOON SESSION
12:40 Suffix-order variability in Turkish: How it works and why one should
care
Jeff Good & Alan Yu, University of California, Berkeley
1:10 Attractiveness and relatedness: Notes on Turkic language contacts
Lars Johanson, Universität Mainz
1:50 The phonology of the past tense in Tamil
Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida, Gainesville
2:20 Analyzing contact-induced phenomena in Karaim
Eva Agnes Csato, Uppsala University
2:50 ********** BREAK **********
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
3:00 Evidentiality in the Caucasus: The category 'Witnessed' in Tsez
Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
& Maria Polinsky, UC San Diego
3:30 Kannada gerund in adnominal positions: A functional perspective
Mirjam Fried, UC Berkeley
4:00 Indefinites, questions, and correlatives in a Dravidian language
Hany Babu, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 13, 1999: GENERAL SESSION
8:00 REGISTRATION
MORNING SESSION
9:00 A cross-linguistic semantic analysis of Czech and Russian "spanning"
prefixes
Sarah Shull, University of California, Berkeley
9:30 Coronal phonotactics and coronal inventory
Yoonjung Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00 Imitation as a basis for phonetic learning after the critical period
Carol Fowler, Haskins Laboratories, Univ. of Connecticut, Yale Univ.
10:40 Roles and non-unique definites
Richard Epstein, Rutgers University - Camden
11:10 ********** BREAK **********
11:20 Aspects of locative doubling and resultative predication
Diana Cresti & Christina Tortora, University of Michigan
11:50 The magic moment. What it means to be a punctual verb
Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal
12:20 From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in the Kiraut
Balthasar Bickel, Univ. of California, Berkeley and Univ. of Zürich
12:50 ********** LUNCH **********
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:50 Loan words in the English of modern Orthodox Jews: Yiddish or Hebrew?
Sarah Benor, Stanford University
2:20 Are loanwords special?
Ellen Broselow, State University of New York, Stony Brook
3:00 Implications of Itelmen agreement asymmetries
Jonathan Bobaljik, McGill University
3:30 The combinatory properties of Halkomelem lexical suffixes
Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University
4:00 ********** BREAK **********
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
4:10 Morphosemantics of deverbal adjectives in Malayalam
K.P. Mohanan, National University of Singapore
4:50 Metaphor, linguistic practice, and the temporal meanings of gannaaw
'back'and kanam 'front' in Wolof
Kevin Moore, University of California, Berkeley
5:20 Proving basic polysemy: Subjects reliably distinguish several senses
of 'see'
Collin F. Baker, University of California, Berkeley
5:50 Why complement clauses do not include a that-complementizer in early
child language
Holger Diessel & Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology
6:20 A local treatment of nonlocal relativization: A constructional approach
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
7:00 PARTY - 370-371 DWINELLE HALL
SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 14, 1999: GENERAL SESSION
MORNING SESSION
9:00 Complex noun, multiple inheritance, and internally headed relative
clause in Korean
Chan Chung, Dongseo University
9:30 Loan words and their implications for the categorial status of verbal
nouns
Yukiko Morimoto, Stanford University
10:00 Borrowings: delimitation of corpus, nomenclature, and etymology
Garland Cannon, Texas A&M University
10:40 'Some' and the pragmatics of indefinite reference
Michael Israel, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
11:10 ********** BREAK **********
11:20 A model for the construction of common ground in interpreted discourse
Brad Davidson, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
11:50 The evolution of binary spatial deictics: French Voilà and Voici
Benjamin K. Bergen & Madelaine C. Plauché, Univ. of California, Berkeley
12:20 What is the information structure-syntax interface in Basque?
Phyllis Bellver & Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder
12:50 ********** LUNCH **********
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:50 ACD, QR, and frozen scope
Benjamin Bruening, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:20 Construction but no constructions: Doing without the lexicon
Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:00 Evidentiality in Dutch and its implications for modality
Ferdinand de Haan, University of New Mexico
3:30 Tmesis and verb second in Early Irish syntax
Cathal Doherty, University College Dublin
4:00 ********** BREAK **********
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
4:10 Loan word phonology in Optimality Theory
Junko Itô & Armin Mester, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:50 Patterns of correspondence in the adaptation of Spanish borrowing in
Basque
José Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois
5:20 Perception, representation and correspondence relations in loanword
phonology
Yvan Rose, McGill University
5:50 Lexical words, non-lexical words, subcategorization and lexical
stratification
Ruben van de Vijver, Universität Tübingen
MONDAY - FEBRUARY 15, 1999: GENERAL SESSION
MORNING SESSION
9:00 The origins and development of Chinese classifiers: A
grammaticization perspective
Fengxiang Li, California State University, Chico
9:30 On the rise of suppletion in verbal paradigms
Matthew L. Juge, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 A new model of Indo-European subgrouping and dispersal
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 TBA
Stephen Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
11:10 Argument structure and animacy restrictions on anaphora
Ash Asudeh, Stanford University
11:40 ********** LUNCH **********
AFTERNOON SESSION
12:40 Constraints on motion verbs in the TIME IS MOTION metaphor
Kazuko Shinohara, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo
1:10 Emergent phonology
Bjørn Lindblom, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin
1:50 Loanwords and contact-induced phonological change in Lachixío Zapotec
Mark Sicoli, University of Pittsburgh
2:20 A comparison of three metrics of perceptual similarity in
cross-language speech perception
James D. Harnsberger, Indiana University
2:50 Loan word phonology: A case for non-reductionist approach to grammar
Fumiko Kumashiro, University of California, San Diego
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