Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 26 -- Program
Yehuda N. Falk
msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
Wed Aug 18 08:08:18 UTC 2010
Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
announces its
26th Annual Meeting
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IATL 26
October 5-6, 2010
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/26/
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
9:00-9:50 Registration & Coffee
9:50-10:00 Welcoming remarks
10:00–11:00 ~Invited speaker~
Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
On semantic bleaching and compositionality: Subtraction
or addition? On the bleaching of "lexical verbs" in
Russian negated existential sentences
11:00–11:20 Coffee
11:20–12:00 Anna Chernilovskaya (Utrecht University)
Wh-exclamatives and other non-interrogative questions
12:00–12:40 Olga Kagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
A scalar approach to Slavic verbal prefixes
12:40–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:40 Roey Gafter (Stanford University)
A prominence based account of the Hebrew possessive
dative construction
14:40–15:20 Edit Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
and Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)
The debate on ergativity in Neo-Aramaic
15:20–16:00 Ora Matushansky (University of Paris 8)
As relatives?
16:00–16:20 Coffee
16:20–17:00 Fabienne Martin (University of Stuttgart)
Epistemic modals and past tenses
17:00–17:40 Eric Reuland and Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
Binding without identity: Reference by proxy and
the functional semantics of pronouns
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
9:15-10:00 Coffee
10:00–11:00 Adriana Belletti (University of Siena)
Computing complex derivations. Evidence from
relatives, passive and related syntactic structures
11:00–11:20 Coffee
11:20–12:00 Shira Farby, Joel Walters, Gabi Danon and Michal Ben
Shachar (Bar-Ilan University)
The acceptability of resumptive pronouns in Hebrew
12:00–12:40 Evan-Gary Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
The emergence of UG in the periphery: Vowel harmony
in Hebrew loanwords
12:40–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:00 Business Meeting
14:00–14:40 Andreas van Cranenburgh, Galit W. Sassoon and
Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
Invented Antonyms: Esperanto as a semantic lab
14:40–15:20 Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
An interpersonal approach to predicates of personal taste
15:20–16:00 Olga Kagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and
Sascha Alexejenko (University of Osnabrück)
Degree modification in Russian morphology: the case of
the suffix _-ovat_
16:00–16:20 Coffee
16:20–17:00 Dina Orenstein and Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University)
The semantics and focus sensitivity of the Hebrew
(unstressed) _stam_
17:00–17:40 Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
Counting, measuring and the interpretation of classifier
phrases
Alternates
Sascha Alexejenko (University of Osnabrück)
Adjectival manner modification and event pluractionality
in English
Xu-Ping Li (Bar-Ilan University)
Counting and measure functions of classifiers in a
classifier language
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