10.1267, Confs: NELS 30 Program and Registration
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ron Artstein <artstein at eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NELS 30 Program and Registration
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ron Artstein <artstein at eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NELS 30 Program and Registration
NELS 30 - Conference of the North East Linguistic Society
October 22-24, 1999
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick/Piscataway, New Jersey
Invited Speakers: John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts
Anna Szabolcsi, New York University
Mark Baker, Rutgers University
Please check our web site for travel, accommodations, and
program and registration updates:
http://ling.rutgers.edu/nels30
REGISTRATION:
Early registration (before September 23): Student $20,
Faculty $45
Late registration (after September 23): Student $25,
Faculty $50
For advance registration we can only accept checks drawn
on US banks. Please make the checks payable to Rutgers
University, and send them to us at:
NELS 30 Organizing Committee
Rutgers University
Department of Linguistics
18 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1184
USA
For on-site registration we can also take cash.
PROGRAM:
Friday, October 22
Learnability workshop until 13:00 (details forthcoming)
Registration and lunch after 13:00
(Plenary Session)
Session I: Syntax-Semantics Interface
14:20 Opening Remarks
14:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Anna Szabolcsi, NYU
15:30 Carlo Cecchetto, Siena: What syntax cannot do is
pseudocleft connectivity
16:00 Rajesh Bhatt, Texas: Adjectival Modifiers and the
Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses
16:30 ---break---
17:00 Cedric Boeckx, Connecticut: Interpreting A-chains at
the interface
17:30 Diana Cresti, Michigan: Ellipsis and Reconstruction in
Relative Clauses
18:00 Kai von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou, MIT: Quantifiers,
Modals, and If-Clauses
18:30 ---end---
Saturday, October 23
(Plenary Session)
Session II: Syntax
08:30 ---coffee---
09:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Mark Baker, Rutgers
10:00 Cornelia Krause, MIT: On an (in-)visible Property of
Inherent Case
10:30 ---break---
(Parallel Sessions)
Session IIIa: Syntax (and acquisition of syntax)
11:00 Maaike Verrips, Utrecht: Passives and implicit
arguments in child language
11:30 Andrew Simpson, SOAS and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, UCL:
Obligatory overt wh-movement in a wh-in-situ language
12:00 Arthur Stepanov, Connecticut: Late Adjunction and
Minimalist Phrase Structure
Session IIIb: Phonology
11:00 Matt Goldrick, Johns Hopkins: Turbid OT: Opacity in
German
11:30 Anthi Revithiadou, Massachusetts and Arto Anttila,
Boston University: Rhythmic Variation in Allomorph
Selection
12:00 Adam Sherman, UC Santa Cruz: Root-and-pattern
morphology without roots or patterns
12:30 ---business meeting---
13:30 ---lunch and poster session 1 (semantics, phonology,
acquisition)---
Session IVa: Syntax
15:00 LONG TALK: Zeljko Boskovic, Connecticut: What is
special about multiple wh-fronting?
16:00 Milan Rezac, Toronto: Objects and Operations
16:30 Jon Nissenbaum, MIT: Covert Movement and Parasitic
Gaps
Session IVb: Phonology
15:00 LONG TALK: John Alderete, British Columbia: Dominance
Effects as Anti-Faithfulness
16:00 K. David Harrison and Abigail Kaun, Yale:
Pattern-Responsive Lexicon Optimization
16:30 Patrik Bye, Tromso and Paul de Lacy, Massachusetts:
Edge Asymmetries in Phonology: Eliminating Right Edge
Reference
17:00 ---break---
(Plenary Session)
Session V: Syntax
17:30 Kazue Takeda, UC Irvine: Multiple Headed Relatives in
English and Japanese
18:00 Gereon Mueller, Stuttgart: Shape Conservation and
Remnant Movement
18:30 ---end---
19:00 ---party---
Sunday, October 24
08:30 ---coffee---
(Parallel Sessions)
Session VIa: Syntax
09:00 LONG TALK: Chris Kennedy, Northwestern: Comparative
(sub-) deletion: Evidence for ranked violable
constraints in syntax
10:00 Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins: Evidence for an OT
conception of a `parallel' interface
10:30 Hanjung Lee, Stanford: The Emergence of the Unmarked
Order in Hindi
Session VIb: Semantics
09:00 LONG TALK: Yoad Winter, Technion: DP Structure and
Flexible Semantics
10:00 Stefano Vegnaduzzo, UCLA: Generalizing Exception
Constructions: the Case of Romance UNTIL
10:30 Calixto Aguero-Bautista, MIT: On Pair-list Readings
11:00 ---break---
Session VIIa: Syntax
11:30 Robert Frank and Fero Kuminiak, Johns Hopkins:
Primitive Asymmetric C-Command Derives X'-Theory
12:00 Christina Tortora, Michigan: Functional heads and
object clitics
12:30 Chung-hye Han and Anthony Kroch, Pennsylvania: The
rise of do-support in English imperatives:
implications for clause structure
Session VIIb: Semantics
11:30 Rong Yang, Rutgers: Universal Quantification &
Distributivity in Chinese
12:00 Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon: Felicitous
Disjunctions, Presupposition and Anaphora
12:30 Beata Gyuris, Hungarian Academy of Science: Adverbial
Quantifiers in Contrastive Topic in Hungarian
13:00 ---lunch and poster session 2 (syntax)---
(Plenary session)
Session VIII: Phonology
14:30 INVITED SPEAKER: John McCarthy, Massachusetts
15:30 Caro Struijke, Maryland: Why Constraint Conflict can
Disappear in Reduplication
16:00 Rene Kager, Utrecht: Ternary Alternations and Lexical
Allomorphy
16:30 ---end---
Posters: (* designates alternate talk)
Poster session 1 (Saturday)
Phonology:
* Bert Vaux, Harvard: Uyghur Raising and the Nature of
(Under)specification
- Arto Anttila, Boston University and Young-mee Yu Cho,
Rutgers: NDEB as a Faithfulness Effect
- Katherine M. Crosswhite, UCLA: The Non-Unitary Nature of
Vowel Reduction
- Ahmadu Ndanusa Kawu, Rutgers/Ilorin: Structural Markedness
and Nonreduplicative Copying
- Jie Zhang, UCLA: Phonetic Duration Effects on Contour
Distribution
Semantics:
* Cassandre Creswell, Pennsylvania: The discourse function
of verum focus in wh-questions
- Ryan Bush, UC Santa Cruz and Magda Tevdoradze:
Identificational Foci in Georgian
- Gwang-Yoon Goh, Ohio State: Is the tough-subject thematic?
- Na-Rae Han, Pennsylvania: Semantic Analysis of Korean
Wh-words and Questions
- Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli, Edinburgh:
Friends and Colleagues: Plurality and NP Coordination
- Graham Katz, Tuebingen: Accounting for the stative adverb
gap
- Orin Percus, Milan: Copular sentences and how to use them
Acquisition:
* Veronique van Gelderen, Leiden and John Grinstead,
University of Northern Iowa: Evidence for Early
Convergence from Child Russian and Catalan Imperatives
- Andrea Gualmini, Luisa Meroni and Stephen Crain, Maryland:
The Acquisition of Disjunction: Evidence from Modal Verbs
Poster session 2 (Sunday)
Syntax:
* Martina Wiltschko, British Columbia/Vienna: The
categorical determination of pronominal binding properties
* Alan C. L. Yu and Jeff Good, UC Berkeley: Morphosyntax of
two Turkish subject pronominal paradigms
- Artemis Alexiadou, Tuebingen and Elena Anagnostopoulou,
University of Crete: Clitic-Doubling and
(non-)configurationality
- Adolfo Ausin, Connecticut: Where does idiom interpretation
apply?
- Paul Hagstrom, Johns Hopkins: The movement of question
particles
- Peter Hallman, UCLA: Germanic Verb-Final as a Subcase of
Verb-Second
- Michela M. Ippolito, MIT: The Syntax of Temporal
Subordinate Clauses
- Dalina Kallulli, Durham/Vienna: Restrictive Relative
Clauses Revisited
- Jan Koster, Groningen: Pied Piping and the Word Orders of
English and Dutch
- Jonas Kuhn, Stuttgart: Resolving some apparent formal
problems of OT-Syntax
- Winfried Lechner, Tuebingen: Conjunction Reduction in
Subordinate Structures
- Masao Ochi, Connecticut: Adjunct Wh-in-situ and the
Nominal Island
- Ivy Sichel, CUNY: Evidence for DP-internal Remnant
Movement
- Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Pennsylvania State: Minimalist
Ideas on Parametric Variation
- Jeong-Me Yoon, Myongji University: Cyclic Spell-Out Model
and a Parametric Approach to Pied-Piping in English
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