9.572, Confs: The Syntax of Semitic Languages

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-572. Tue Apr 14 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.572, Confs: The Syntax of Semitic Languages

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Date:  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:  choueiri <choueiri at scf-fs.usc.edu>
Subject:  The Syntax of Semitic Languages (Final Program and Address Correction)

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Date:  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:  choueiri <choueiri at scf-fs.usc.edu>
Subject:  The Syntax of Semitic Languages (Final Program and Address Correction)


THE SYNTAX OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAY 1-3, 1998

HEDCO AUDITORIUM

For further information and for registration, please consult the
conference website (note the address correction) at

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/semitic-itin.html

or write to Professor Hagit Borer at borer at rcf.usc.edu.

FINAL PROGRAM

Friday, May 1st

9:00-9:30	Registration

9:30-10:30		
Edit Doron and Shraga Assif, The Hebrew University
"The Wackernagel Position in Syriac"

10:30-11:00	Coffee Break

11:00-12:00		
Ibtissam Kortobi, USC
"Gapping and VP Deletion in Moroccan Arabic"

12:00-2:00	Lunch Break

2:00-3:00		
Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	
"PF Merger"

3:00-4:00		
Sharon Armon-Lotem, University of Maryland
"On Acquiring Agreement without Agreement Nodes:Verbal Agreement in
Child Hebrew"

4:00-4:30	Coffee Break

4:30-5:30		
Idan Landau, MIT
"On Possessor Raising in Hebrew"

5:30-6:30
Jamal Ouhalla, Queen Mary College, London University
"Expletive Determiners in Definite Relatives"

Saturday, May 2nd

9:00-10:00		
Joseph Aoun, USC
"Parasitic WH-in-situ"

10:00-11:00		
Asya Perelzvaig, McGill University
"Cognate Objects in Hebrew"

11:0-11:30	Coffee Break

11:30-12:30		
Tal Siloni, Tel-Aviv University
"Adjectival Complexes and Inalienable Constructions"

12:30-2:00	Lunch Break

2:00-3:00		
Mohammad Mohammad, University of Florida
"Just How Complex is the Arabic Agreement System"

3:00-4:00		
Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fes
"Negation, Tense and Agreement in Modern Standard Arabic"

4:00-4:30	Coffee Break

4:30-5:30		
Lina Choueiri, USC
"Resumption in Adverbial Relatives of Time and Place in Lebanese
Arabic"

5:30-6:30		
Elizabeth Ritter, University of Calgary
"Agreement in the Semitic Prefix Conjugation"

		Party

Sunday, May 3rd

9:30-10:30		
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneva
"Copular Constructions and Subject Positions in Hebrew"

10:30-11:00	Coffee Break

11:00-12:00		
Abdesslam Elomari, USC
"The Determinism of Resumption"

12:00-1:30	Lunch Break

1:30-2:00	Business Meeting

2:00-3:00		
Miriam Engelhardt, The Hebrew University
"Nominalizations and Control Theory"

3:00-3:30	Coffee Break

3:30-4:30		
Hagit Borer, USC

"The Argument Structure of Causatives: a Top-Down Approach"

4:30-5:30		
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Mohammad V University
"Are Semitic Genitives [a definite]?"

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