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Subject: 10.496, Confs: Formal Linguistics (WCCFL18)
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:38:35 -0700 (MST)
From: WCCFL18 <wccfl at abelard.arizona.edu>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18 (WCCFL)
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:38:35 -0700 (MST)
From: WCCFL18 <wccfl at abelard.arizona.edu>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18 (WCCFL)
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
XVIII
The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18, will be held at
the University of Arizona, in Tucson, April 8-11th. All talks will
be held on the second floor of the Student Union Building, which is
located on the Main Mall (University Avenue) of the University.
PROGRAM
Thursday April 8th
7-9pm Registration, Plaza Hotel
Friday April 9th
7:00am Registration, Student Union
8:15 am Welcoming remarks, Tom Bever. Senior Ballroom
Session A: Senior Ballroom(chair:Mario Montalbetti)
8:30 How to get a free ride? Additional scrambling effects and the
principle of minimal compliance.
Cedrix Boeckx & Koji Sugisaki, UConn
9:00 Resurrecting scrambling
John F. Bailyn, SUNY at Stonybrook
9:30 Evidence for feature-driven A-scrambling
Martha McGinnis, UPenn
Session B: Rincon Room (chair: Diana Archangeli)
8:30 Phonetic basis of coronal phonotactics
Yoonjung Kang, MIT
9:00 Consonant clusters in Tsou and their theoretical implications
Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn
9:30 Obstruent neutralization in Andalusian Spanish
Chip Gerfen, UNC at Chapel Hill
10:00-10:15 Break
Session C: Rincon Room (chair: Michael Hammond)
10:15 Compensatory lengthening as coalescence: analysis and
implications
Meghan Sumner SUNY at Stonybrook
10:45 Object asymmetries and their morphophonological reflexes
Amanda Seidl, UPenn
11:15 The inadequacy of the root: output-output correspondence in
Modern Hebrew
Adam Sherman UCSC
Session D: Senior Ballroom (chair: Antxon Olarrea)
10:15 Structural markedness and minimalist checking theory
Susana Bejar, UToronto
10:45 Phrase-linking meets minimalist syntax
Hans-Martin Gaertner UPotsdam
11:15 Right node raising and the LCA
Chris Wilder, ZAS Berlin
11:45-1:15 Lunch Break
Session E: Senior Ballroom (chair: tba)
1:15 Modal verbs must be raising verbs
Susi Wurmbrand McGill & UQAM
1:45 Stripping and 'sluicing' in Japanese and some implications
Teruhiko Fukaya & Hajime Hoji USC
2:15 Temporal adjectives and the structure of possessive DPs
Richard Larson & Sungeun Cho, SUNY at Stonybrook
Session F: room 256 (chair: Daniel Everett)
1:15 Reduplication and prosodic misalignment
Liina Pylkknen, MIT
1:45 Unfaithful bases and syncope in Tohono O'odham reduplication.
Colleen Fitzgerald, SUNY at Buffalo
2:15 A-Templatic reduplication in Thompson River Salish
Gail Coelho, UTexas at Austin
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break
Session G: Room 256 (chair: Ted Fernald)
3:00 Psych-adjectives and semantic selection
Idan Landau, MIT
3:30 Extraposition and scope: a case for overt QR
Danny Fox, Harvard, and Jon Nissenbaum, MIT
4:00 Durative adverbials for result states
Christopher Pinon, UDuesseldorf
4:30 Tough movement and semantic connectivity
Mike Calcagno, Tuebingen
Panel Disc: Is language derivational? Part 1
3-3:45 T-to-C Movement: Causes and Consequences
David Pesetsky, MIT and Esther Torrego UMass, Bos.
3:45-4:30 Additional WH effects and the direction of tree
construction
Norvin Richards, Kanda University
4:30-5:15 Decomposition and combination in the mental lexicon:
psycholinguistic perspectives
William Marslen-Wilson, Cambridge U,
5:15-5:45 Commentary on afternoon talks
Robert May, UCI
5:45-7:15 Dinner Break
Session H: Room 256 (chair: tba)
7:15 Predicative and non predicative verb particle constructions and
the role of aspect
Mikael Vinka, McGill.
7:45 Raising without infinitives and the nature of agreement
Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS Berlin
Elena Anagnostopoulou, UCrete
8:15 Multiple I-checking, the EPP and inverse voice in Innu-aimn
Phil Branigan & Marguerite MacKenzie, MUN
8:45 A syntactic derivation of Semitic verbs
Edit Doron, UCSC & Hebrew U of Jerusalem
Panel Disc: Is language derivational? Part 2
7:15-8:00 Reduplicative identity in Chaha
Michael Kenstowicz and Degif Petros MIT
8:00-8:45 Phonological opacities
William Idsardi, Delaware
8:45-9:30 title TBA
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford
9:30-10:00 Commentary on evening talks
Stephen Anderson, Yale
Saturday, April 10th
Session I: Arizona Ballroom (chair: David Pesetsky)
9:00 On multiple Wh-movement: weak crossover, D-linking, and the
third wh-phrase effect.
John D. Lewis, McGill
9:30 Cyclic spell-out and the Comp-T effects
Toru Ishii, Kitami Inst Tech
10:00 What is the true nature of successive cyclic Wh-movement?
Maire Noonan, YorkU
10:30 Indexical pronouns as bound variables
Murat Kural Inquizit Tech. & Georges Tsoulas UYork
Session J: Room 256: (chair: Jane Hill)
9:00 A unified mora account of Chuukese
Jennifer S. Muller, OSU.
9:30 Where and why do CVC syllables count as heavy?
Mee-Jin Ahn, UIUC
10:00 The phonology of foot and _ structure: evidence from Amazonia
Daniel Everett, UPitt
10:30 At-will spoonerisms and vowel length in Finnish
Heli Harrikari, UMass/UHelsinki
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
Session K: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Martha McGinnis)
11:15 Long-distance agreement in Tsez
Eric Potsdam, Yale & Maria Polinsky, UCSD
11:45 A reconsideration of unaccusativity in ergative alternations
Mikinari Matsuoka McGill
12:15 Case features and case particles
Dong-Whee Yang, Seoul NatU
Session L: Room 256 (chair: Andrew Barss)
11:15 Two views of Polish reflexives
Anna Lubowicz, UMass
11:45 Unified semantics of mosts
Katsuhiko Yabushita, UTexas at Austin, Naruto UEduc
12:15 Manner in dative alternation
Manfred Krifka, UTexas, Austin
12:45 Properties as arguments
Miriam Englehardt, MIT
1:15-1:20 Business Meeting
1:20-2:30 Lunch Break
Session M: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Andrew Carnie)
2:30 Language change and the verb second position in Early Irish
Cathal Doherty, Univ College Dublin
3:00 Expletives and existentials in Early Middle English
Alexander Williams, UPenn
3:30 Binding domains and minimalist features
Elly van Gelderen, ASU
Session N: Room 256 (chair Keren Rice)
2:30 Same edge alignment with opposite edge effects
Nathan Sanders UCSC
3:00 Interaction of tone and stress in Seoul and Chonnam Korean
Eon-Suk Ko, UPenn
3:30 A multiplanar account of voice-tone interaction
Mary Bradshaw, OSU
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
Session O: Arizona Ballroom (chair: Judith Aissen)
4:15 Verbal classifiers as heads of functional projections: Evidence
from ASL
Diane Brentari & Elena Benedicto, PurdueU.
4:45 Inflection is syntactic: Evidence form Salish possessives
Henry Davis, Martina Wiltschko, UBC
5:15 The morphosemantics of object case in Kannada
Jeffrey Lidz, UPenn
Session P: Room 256 (chair: Terry Langendoen)
4:15 Subject and object coordination in HPSG
Michelle Moosally, UHouston-Downtown
4:45 Combien-extraction in dynamic montague grammar.
Martin Honcoop, UCLA
5:15 A comprehensive LMT analysis of three Hungarian participles
Tibor Laczk, Stanford/KossuthU
4-6:15 Poster Session Arizona Gallery
8:00 -? Party, Gentle Ben's Brewpub. University Ave.
Sunday April 11
Special Session -Arizona Ballroom
The Importance of the Study of Native American Languages to
Linguistic Theory:
The Contributions of Ken Hale
8:00-8:30 Coffee; brief opening remarks, Jane Hill, UArizona.
8:30-8:50 Navajo conditional interpretations Theodore Fernald,
Swarthmore; Ellavina Perkins, NLA, and Paul Platero, Navajo Nation.
8:50-9:10 Person and point of view in Navajo discourse complements
Margaret Speas, UMass
9:10-9:30 Individual and stage level predication and the Navajo
classificatory verbs MaryAnn Willie, UArizona
9:30-9:50 The Navajo prolongative in lexical structure Carlota
Smith, UTexas, Austin
9:50-10:10 Head-internal relative clauses in Dogrib Leslie Saxon,
UVic
10:10-10:25 Break
10:25-10:45 Another look at the Athapaskan y-/b- pronouns, Keren
Rice, UToronto.
10:45-11:05 Another perspective on Navajo inverse, Judith Aissen,
UCSC
10:45-11:05 Datives and argument hierarchies, Eloise Jelinek,
UArizona
11:05-11:25 On the nature of switch reference, Lynn Nichols, Harvard
11:25-11:45 The features LABIAL and ROUND in Tohono O'odham, Jane
Hill, UArizona
11:45-12:05 Reading words: efforts in American Indian language
literacy development, Ofelia Zepeda, U Arizona
12:05-12:45 Concluding remarks, Kenneth Hale, MIT
ALTERNATE SPEAKERS
SYNTAX:
Subject and adjunct island asymmetries: evidence from syntactic
satiation
Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn
Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms
Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender, StanfordU
PHONOLOGY:
Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based approach.
Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU.`
Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese.
Jennifer L. Smith, UMass
SEMANTICS:
Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted
quantification.
Josep Quer, UAutonoma Barcelona
POSTER SESSION
SYNTAX:
Subject and adjunct island asymmetries: evidence from syntactic
satiation
Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn
Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms
Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender, StanfordU
Sluicing as PF deletion
Sandra Stjepanovic, UConn
Possessor raising and causatives: a minimalist account of structural
and inherent case.
Juan Carlos Castillo, UMaryland
On adjunct Wh-NPs
Masao Ochi & Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn
What diachrony tells about English tough-constructions
Gwang-Yoon Goh, Ohio State U.
Syntax, Semantics, chicken and egg: remarks on the development of
English modal auxiliaries
Kieran Snyder, UPenn
Raising in Icelandic
Dianne Jonas, YaleU
Reconstruction and linearity in long-distance cleft constructions
Mika Kizu & Hidekazu Tanaka, McGill
The Yes-No question clitic li placement in Russian
Elena Rudnitskaya, CUNY
Clitic Combinations
Francisco Ordonez & Arhonto Terzi, UIUC
Locative inversion and optional featuers
Jeong-Seok Kim, KoreaU
That-trace effects: a minimalist approach
Adam Szczegielniak, HarvardU
PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY:
Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based approach.
Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU.
Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese.
Jennifer L. Smith, UMass
The behavior of the velar nasal and syllabification
Chin Wan Chung & Byung Jin Lim, Indiana
Constraining a constraint-based theory
Daniel Currie , UToronto
Not-so-fixed segmentism in reduplication: dissimilation and
prespecification in the Turkish emphatic partial reduplication.
Alan Yu, UCBerkeley
Bare-consonant reduplication in Yokuts
Sean Hendricks, UArizona
Diminutive bare consonant reduplication in Stl'atl'imcets
Sonya Bird, UArizona
Featural Optimality Theory: a computational model
Andrea Heiberg, UArizona
Empty C-slots revisited: the case of the verbal agreement system of
Panthare Limbu.
Matthew Richardson, YaleU
A correspondence theory of morpheme order
Paul de Lacy, UMass
Size restrictors and prosodic structure in the acquisition of stress
Suzanne Curtin, USC
Head-dependent asymmetries and the root-affix metaconstraint.
Anthi Revithiadou, UMass
SEMANTICS & SYNTAX/SEMANTICS:
Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted
quantification.
Josep Quer, UAutonoma Barcelona
Determiner copulas in conditionals and relatives
Barbara Citko, SUNY at Stonybrook/MIT
The effects of focus on argument structure: depictives. vs
resultatives
Bokyung Noh, UTexas at Austin
The focusing negative mhaih in Cantonese-Chese: a look at
contrastive and metalinguistic negation.
Juliet Wai-hong Du, UTexas at Austin
Pair-quantificational operator Tokoro-clause
Hironobu Hosoi, McGill
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