IATL 25 -- Program

[Yehuda N. Falk]

Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
announces its
25th Annual Meeting
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IATL 25
October 12-13, 2009
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva


Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/25/

For information concerning travel to the conference venue and places 
to overnight in Beer Sheva please contact Nomi Erteschik-Shir: 
shir at exchange.bgu.ac.il

Program

Monday, October 12, 2009

9:30-10:10  Registration and coffee
10:10       Welcoming remarks

10:20-11:20 ~Invited Speaker~
             Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
             Ergativity Revisited

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:20 Lior Laks (Tel Aviv University)
             The Formation of Arabic Passive Verbs: Lexical or Syntactic?

12:20-13:00 Nora Boneh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Lea 
Nash (Université Paris VIII)
             A higher applicative: evidence from colloquial French

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:10 David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow)
             Modularity and 2P clitics: Arguments from Digor Ossetic

15:10-15:50 Erika Varis (University of Southern California)
             "Complimentary" Heads in Spanish: Syntactic Phonology

15:50-16:10 Coffee break

16:10-16:50 Olga Kagan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
             More on Intensional Aspect: The Particle _Bylo_ in 
Russian in Comparison with the English Progressive

16:50-17:30 Ziva Wijler (Tel Aviv University)
             The syntax of discourse -- Contrast adverb-argument 
constituents in Hebrew

17:30-18:10 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) and Hedde Zeijlstra (Universiteit 
van Amsterdam)
             On the scopal interaction of negation and deontic modals: 
revealing a mystery



Tuesday, October 13, 2009

9:30-10:30  ~Invited Speaker~
             Pranav Anand (University of California, Santa Cruz)
             Adventures in Modal Modification
  			
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
  			
10:50-11:30 Hedde Zeijlstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
             One Way to Agree

11:30-12:10 Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts) and Radek Šimík 
(University of Groningen)
             Variable binding and the Person Case Constraint
  	 	
12:10-12:30 Business Meeting
12:30-13:40 Lunch
		
13:40-14:20 Olga Gupol and Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar Ilan University)
             Comprehension of the Aspectual Distinctions in L1 Russian 
in Russian-Hebrew bilinguals

14:20-15:00 Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
             On the (changing) status of the mass/count distinction in 
Hebrew: Evidence from acquisition

15:00-15:20 Coffee break
	
15:20-16:00 Galit Sassoon (ILLC, University of Amsterdam & Ben Gurion 
University of the Negev)
             Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns
  		
16:00-16:40 Rui Marques (Universidade de Lisboa)
             On the semantics of subjunctive 'tenses' in Romance languages

16:40-17:20 Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University)
             Additivity with Events



Alternates

      Olga Kagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Asya Pereltsvaig 
(Stanford University)
      Syntax and Semantics of Bare NPs: Complements of Intensive 
Resultatives in Russian

      Gabi Danon (Bar Ilan University)
      Agreement with quantified nominals: implications for feature theory

      Noam Faust (Université Paris VII)
      Theoretical implications of weak-final verbs in Modern Hebrew