BLS 26 Program
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THE 26TH ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
370 DWINELLE HALL
(LEVEL G/7TH FLOOR OF OFFICE SIDE OF BUILDING)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS
FEBRUARY 18-21, 2000
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000
SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE
AMERICAS
8:30 COFFEE
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: EMMON BACH,
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
BREAK
10:00 Multiple Antipassives in Halkomelem Salish
Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University
Thomas E. Hukari, University of Victoria
10:30 The semantics of the Salishan suffix *an/n'ak
Mercedes Q. Hinkson, Simon Fraser University
11:00 Complex Predicates in Tsafiki
Connie Dickinson, University of Oregon
LUNCH
12:30 Argument Structure of Klamath Bipartite Stems
Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon
1:00 Word Order and Inverse Voice in Isthmus Mixe
Julia Dieterman, University of Texas at Arlington
1:30 Aspectual classes and non-agentive morphosyntax in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00 Demonstrative words in Passamaquoddy
Eve Ng, State University of New York at Buffalo
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MARIANNE MITHUN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
BREAK
3:30 Coordination, clitic placement, and prosody in Zapotec
George Aaron Broadwell, State University of New York at Albany
4:00 Grammaticalization of Olutec motion verbs under areal contact
Roberto Zavala, University of Oregon
4:30 Multiple Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut
Carrie Gillon, University of British Columbia
5:00 INVITED SPEAKER: JERRY SADOCK
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: MANFRED KRIFKA
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
BREAK
10:00 Happening gradually
Christopher Pinon, Universitat Dusseldorf
10:30 Event underspecification and aspect marking in Thai
Jean-Pierre Koenig and Nuttanart Muansuwan, State University of New York
at Buffalo
11:00 Event Structure vs. Phasal Structure and Quasi-Discourse Relations
Patrick Caudal and Laurent Roussarie, University of Paris 7
LUNCH
SESSION II: SYNTAX
12:30 On the topicalizing nature of multiple left-dislocations
Eugenia Casielles, Wayne State University
1:00 Markedness and Pronoun Incorporation
Han-Jung Lee, Stanford University
1:30 Syntactically-based lexical decomposition: the case of climb revisited
Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2:00 The go (Particle) and Verb constructions in English
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Rice University
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: ELLEN PRINCE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
BREAK
SESSION III: PHONOLOGY
3:30 Probability in phonological generalizations: modeling optional French
final consonants
Benjamin K. Bergen, UC Berkeley and ICSI
4:00 Sonority-Driven Reduction
Katherine M. Crosswhite, University of Rochester
4:30 Prominence, Augmentation, and Neutralization in Phonology
Jennifer Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
5:00 Re-examining default-to-opposite stress
Matthew K. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
5:30 Yaka nasal harmony: spreading or segmental correspondence?
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California
6:00 Describing Syncretism: Rules of referral after fifteen years
Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University
ALTERNATE
Laryngeal Neutralization in Lezghi
Alan C. L. Yu, University of California, Berkeley
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: ANGELIKA KRATZER
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
BREAK
10:00 Imperfective Aspect and Event Participants in English, Chinese,
Korean and Japanese
Juliet Wai-hong Du, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 From Imperfective to Progressive via Relative Present
Elena Maslova, University of Bielefeld
11:00 Between perfective and past: Preterits in Turkic and Nakh-Daghestanian
Sergei Tatevosov, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Moscow State
University
LUNCH
SESSION II: PHONETICS
12:30 Compensatory lengthening without moras: A study in phonologization
Darya Kavitskaya and Jonathan Barnes, University of California, Berkeley
1:00 Trace of F2 peaks as a quantitative descriptor of aspiration
Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin
1:30 What is /l/?
Joshua Guenter, University of California, Berkeley
2:00 On the accented/unaccented distinction in western Basque
and the typology of accentual systems
José Ignacio Hualde, Rajka Smiljanic and Jennifer Cole, University of
Illinois
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: SHERMAN WILCOX
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
BREAK
SESSION III: SEMANTICS
3:30 The Need for the Resultative Network
Cristiano Broccias, University of Pavia
4:00 A cognitive account of the English meronymic "by" phrase
Monica Corston-Oliver, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 Referential Properties of Factive and Interrogative Complements
Indicate their Semantics
Michael Hegarty, Louisiana State University
5:00 The Distribution of Raising Constructions in French
Michel Achard, Rice University
5:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MICHAEL TOMASELLO
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY AT LEIPZIG
ALTERNATE
Vowel quality and voice quality correlations: A laryngeal account of their
origins
Graham Thurgood, California State University, Fresno
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: BETH LEVIN
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
BREAK
10:00 The semantics of Russian aspect: Accounting for the uses of the
imperfective
Esther Wood, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in Guyanese Creole
Jack Sidnell, Northwestern University
SESSION II: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
11:00 Historical Development of Reported Speech in Chinese
Jya-Lin Hwang, University of Hawaii, Manoa
11:30 Gesture, Lexical Words, and Grammar: Grammaticization Processes in ASL
Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico
LUNCH
SESSION III: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
1:00 Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi
Scott Schwenter and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University
1:30 Relation between gaze, head nodding and aizuti at a Japanese company
meeting
Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota
2:00 The Korean Modal Marker keyss Revisited:
A Marker of Achieved State of Intersubjectivity
Kyung-Hee Suh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Kyu-hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University
2:30 Distributed (and Dissolved) Pragmatics
Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University
3:00 INVITED SPEAKER: WALT WOLFRAM
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
ALTERNATE
An Auto-Optimal Theory of Grammar: Disjunctive Agreement in Yasin Burushaski
Gregory D.S. Anderson and Randall H. Eggert, University of Chicago
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