Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 24 -- Program

Yehuda N. Falk msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
Tue Aug 12 15:41:04 UTC 2008


Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
announces its
24rd Annual Meeting
________________________________________
IATL 24
October 26-27, 2008
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

sponsored by
  The Office of Research and Development, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/IATL24.html


Program

Sunday, October 26, 2008

10:00-10:20 Gathering and refreshments
10:20-10:30 Welcome and greetings

10:30-11:30 ~Invited Speaker~
             Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
             TBA

11:30-12:10 Galit Sassoon (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
             Vagueness Pertaining to Degree Constructions

12:10-12:25 Coffee break

12:25-13:05 Noam Faust (Université Paris 7)
             The Template as a Morphology-Syntax Interface in Modern Hebrew

13:05-13:45 Katharina Schuhmann (State University of New York at
             Stony Brook)
             Degrees of (Un)Grammaticality in Syllable Contact

13:45-15:10 Lunch

15:10-15:50 Ivy Sichel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and
             Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
             English NegDPs and Scopal Predicates

15:50-16:30 Frederick Hoyt (University of Texas at Austin)
             Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic

16:30-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:25 Gabi Danon (Bar Ilan University)
             Grammatical Number in Numeral-Noun Constructions

17:25-18:25 ~Invited Speaker~
             Richard Kayne (New York University)
             TBA

             Dinner

Monday, October 27, 2008

10:00-10:40 Boban Arsenijevic (University of Amsterdam) and Berit Gehrke
            (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
             Accusative Case in PPs 	 	 	

10:40-11:20 Beth Levin (Stanford University) and Malka Rappaport Hovav (The
             Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
             Lexicalized Manner and Result are in Complementary Distribution

11:20-11:35 Coffee break

11:35-12:15 Aviad Eilam (University of Pennsylvania)
             Beyond Regularization: The Role of Native Learners in Shaping
             Modern Hebrew Relative Clauses

12:15-12:55 Martin Hackl, Jorie Koster-Moeller, and Andrea Gottstein
             (Pomona College)
             Processing Opacity 	 		

12:55-13:25 Business Meeting
13:25-14:50 Lunch

14:50-15:30 Lena Ibnbari (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
             Asymmetries in Russian Predicate Clefts

15:30-16:10 Gabriela Bilbiie (Université Paris 7)
             Reconstructing Ellipsis: the Case of Gapping in Romanian

16:10-16:25 Coffee break

16:25-17:05 Chris Reintges (Université Paris 7)
             INCREASING Morphological Complexity 	 		

17:05-18:05 ~Invited Speaker~
             Danny Fox (MIT)
             Economy and Embedded Implicatures
             (joint work with Benjamin Spector, CNRS)

Alternates

             Jenny Birger
             Tel Aviv University
             L1 Acquisition of Unaccusatives: Reconsidering the "Unergative
             Misanalysis Hypothesis"

             Pavel Braginsky
             Bar Ilan University
             On the Semantics of Prefixation in Russian: A Case Study of the
             Prefix ZA-

             Yael Greenberg and Chen Matzri
             Bar Ilan University
             Davka: A Focus-Sensitivity-based Analysis

             Michelle Sheehan
             Newcastle University
             Why Complements (Sometimes) Get Left Behind at PF



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