IATL 24 -- October 26-27

Yehuda N. Falk msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
Sun Oct 19 12:01:48 UTC 2008


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
     * The School of Language Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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


Final Program

Sunday, October 26, 2008

10:00-10:20 Gathering and refreshments
10:20-10:30 Welcome and greetings
               Cyril Aslanov, Institute of General Humanities
               Eran Cohen, Department of Linguistics

10:30-11:30 ~Invited Speaker~
             Richard Kayne (New York University)
             Why is English _is to_ as rare as it is?

11:30-12:10 Ivy Sichel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Sabine 
Iatridou (MIT)
             English NegDPs and Scopal Predicates

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 Chris Reintges (Université Paris 7)
             INCREASING Morphological Complexity

13:45-15:10 Lunch

15:10-15:50 Gabi Danon (Bar Ilan University)
             Grammatical Number in Numeral-Noun Constructions

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

17:25-18:25 ~Invited Speaker~
             Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
             Modification and Saturation

             Reception

Monday, October 27, 2008

10:00-10:40 Beth Levin (Stanford University) and Malka Rappaport Hovav (The 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
             Lexicalized Manner and Result are in Complementary 
Distribution 	 	 	
  	 	 	
10:40-11:20 Boban Arsenijevic (University of Amsterdam) and Berit Gehrke 
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
             Accusative Case in PPs
  			
11:20-11:35 Coffee break
  			
11:35-12:15 Jenny Birger (Tel Aviv University)
             L1 Acquisition of Unaccusatives: Reconsidering the "Unergative 
Misanalysis Hypothesis"

12:15-12:55 Pavel Braginsky (Bar Ilan University)
             On the Semantics of Prefixation in Russian: A Case Study of 
the Prefix ZA-
  	 	
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 Galit Sassoon (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
             Vagueness Pertaining to Degree Constructions
  		
17:05-18:05 ~Invited Speaker~
             Danny Fox (MIT)
             Economy and Embedded Implicatures
             (joint work with Benjamin Spector, CNRS)



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