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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 19:51:54 EDT
From:  oneil at husc.harvard.edu (John O'Neil)
Subject:  NELS 26 Conference Schedule
 
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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 19:51:54 EDT
From:  oneil at husc.harvard.edu (John O'Neil)
Subject:  NELS 26 Conference Schedule
 
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                              NELS 26
                  Harvard/MIT, October 27-30, 1995
 
                       Main Program Schedule
 
 
Friday, October 27, 1995
 
9:00     Ur Shlonsky, U. of Geneva
         Subject Agreement and the IP Sandwich
 
9:30     Daniel Silverman, UCLA
         Optimal and Sub-Optimal Timing Relations Between Stops,
            Vowels and Vocal Fold Spreading
 
10:00    Carson T. Schuetze, MIT
         Korean "Case Stacking" Isn't: Unifying Non-Case Uses
            of Case Particles
 
10:30-11:00   Coffee Break
 
11:00    William Philip and Peter Coopmann, U. of Utrecht
         The Role of Referentiality in the Acquisition of Pronominal
            Anaphora
 
11:30    Jacqueline van Kampen, U. of Utrecht
         PF/LF Convergence in Acquisition
 
12:00    Charles Reiss, Concordia U.
         Implicational Hierarchies and the Subset Principle in
            Assimilation
 
12:30-2:00    Lunch Break
 
2:00     Michele Sigler, MIT
         Subject Positions in Armenian
 
2:30     Hotze Rullmann, U. of Groningen
         Two Types of Negative Polarity Items
 
3:00     Lea Nash, U. de Paris 8
         The Internal Ergative Subject Hypothesis
 
3:30-4:00     Coffee Break
 
4:00     Suzanne Urbanczyk, U. of Massachusetts
         Morphological Templates in Reduplication
 
4:30     Osamuyi Thompson Stewart, McGill U.
         Adverb Placement and the Structure of Serial Verb
            Construction
 
5:00     Jae-Il Yeom, U. of Texas
         Presuppositions as Inducing Various Scope Readings
 
 
Saturday, October 28, 1995
 
9:00     Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown U.
         The Syntax and Semantics of Scalar Negation: Evidence from
            Paduan
 
9:30     Jairo Nunes, U. of Maryland/USC
         On Why Traces Cannot Be Phonetically Realized
 
10:00    Rachel Walker, UC Santa Cruz
         A Third Parameter for Unbounded Stress
 
10:30-11:00   Coffee Break
 
11:00    Mark D. Arnold, U. of Maryland
         The History of "Do" under Minimalist Assumptions: An
            Argument for Lexical Insertion at Spell-Out
 
11:30    Jun Da, U. of Texas
         A Constraint-Based Approach to the Chameleon /r/ in Mandarin
            Dialects
 
12:00    Brian Potter, UCLA
         Minimalism and the Mirror Principle
 
12:30-2:00    Lunch Break
 
2:00     Sabine Iatridou and Spyridoula Varlokosta, U. of Pennsylvania
         Pseudoclefts Crosslinguistically
 
2:30     Eun-Joo Kwak, Brown U.
         The Event Dependency of Plural Individuals
 
3:00     Joe Pater, McGill U.
         *NC
 
3:30-4:00     Coffee Break
 
4:00-5:30     Invited Speaker: Noam Chomsky, MIT
              TBA
 
 
Sunday, October 29, 1995
 
9:30     Eric Reuland, U. of Utrecht
         Pronouns and Features
 
10:00    Roumyana Izvorski, U. of Pennsylvania
         The Syntax and Semantics of Correlative Pronouns
 
10:30-11:00   Coffee Break
 
11:00    Christopher Kennedy, UC Santa Cruz
         Antecedent Contained Deletion and the Syntax of Quantification
 
11:30    Ronald Sprouse, UC Berkeley
         Vowels that "Borrow" Moras: Geminates and Weight in OT
 
12:00    Gertjan Postma and Johan Rooryck, U. of Leiden
         Modality and Possession in NP's
 
12:30-2:00    Lunch Break
 
2:00     Jose Camacho and Liliana Sanchez, USC
         Three Types of Conjunction
 
2:30     Kristin Hanson, U. of British Columbia
         Quantitative Meter in English
 
3:00     Danny Fox and Uli Sauerland, MIT
         Illusive Scope of Universal Quantifiers
 
3:30-4:00     Coffee Break
 
4:00     Jason Merchant, UC Santa Cruz
         Object Scrambling and Quantifier Float in German
 
4:30     Mark S. Hewitt, Brandeis U. and Megan J. Crowhurst,
                U. of North Carolina
         Conjunctive Constraints and Templates
 
5:00     James McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz
         Wh-Movement and Quantifier Float in an Irish English
 
 
ALTERNATES
 
Phonology:      Sylvia Zetterstrand, Harvard U.
                High Vocoids in Turkana
 
Semantics:      Christine Brisson, Rutgers U.
                Distributivity, Asymmetry, and "Both"
 
Syntax:   (1)   Richard Campbell, Oakland U.
                One(s): The Lonely Number
 
          (2)   Jila Ghomeshi and Elizabeth Ritter, U. of Toronto and
                        U. of Calgary
                Binding, Possessives and the Structure of DP
 
 
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Monday, October 30, 1995
 
 
PROCESSING WORKSHOP
 
9:00     Stephen Crain, Weijia Ni and Donald Shankweiler,
                Haskins Laboratories
         Meaning and Modularity
 
9:30    Markus Bader, Josef Bayer, Jens-Max Hopf and Michael Meng,
                Friedrich Schiller Universitaet Jena
        Case-Assignment in Processing German Verb-Final Clauses
 
10:00   Colin Phillips, MIT
        Right-Association:  A Single Strategy for Structural Parsing
 
10:30-10:45     Coffee break
 
10:45   Stephen P. Liversedge, U. of Nottingham
        Processing Arguments and Adjuncts in Null, Felicitous, and
                Infelicitous Contexts
 
11:15   Edward Gibson, MIT (invited speaker)
        TBA
 
12:15-12:30     Snack break
 
12:30   Shelia Kennison, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
        The Role of Verb-Specific Lexical Information in Syntactic
                Ambiguity Resolution
 
1:00    Julie Sedivy, Michael Tanenhaus, Michael Spivey-Knowlton,
                Kathleen, Eberhard, Greg Carlson, U. of Rochester
        Using Contrast Sets in the On-Line Processing of Contrastive Focus
 
 
ALTERNATE
 
        Paola Merlo, U. of Geneva, and Suzanne Stevenson, Rutgers U.,
        Differential Difficulty of Reduced Relative Clauses: A Structural
                Complexity Account
 
 
INDO-EUROPEAN WORKSHOP
 
9:00    Andrew Garrett, UC Berkeley
        Prosodic and Syntactic Structures in Wackernagl's Law
 
9:30    Charles Reiss, Concordia U.
        Phonological and Lexical Allomorphy
 
10:00   Roumyana Izvorski
        From Old Church Slavonic to Modern Bulgarian:  Clitic Placement &
                Phrase Structure Change
 
10:30-10:45     Coffee break
 
10:45   Mark Hale, Concordia U.
        Prosodic Structure, Syntax, and Meter in the Language of the Rigveda
 
11:15   Calvert Watkins, Harvard U. (invited speaker)
        TBA
 
12:15-12:30     Snack break
 
12:30   Joseph Eska, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U.
        Gestures, Allegro-Speech Phenomena, and Epenthesis in Hispano-Celtic
 
1:00    Ans van Kememade
        Negation and Second-Position Phenomena
 
 
ALTERNATE
 
        Antonia Androutsopolou and Manuel Espanol-Echevarria, UCLA
        Case Attraction in Classical Greek Relative Clauses
 
 
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