10.299, Confs: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
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Subject: 10.299, Confs: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:14:52 -0500
From: LSRL 29 <lsrl at umich.edu>
Subject: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:14:52 -0500
From: LSRL 29 <lsrl at umich.edu>
Subject: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
University of Michigan, April 8-11, 1999.
(Information that applies to all sessions (e.g., plenary talks, receptions,
etc.) is not repeated for the parallel and para- sessions (i.e., it is
given only once, in the info for the first set of sessions of each day)).
Feel free to visit our web-site (www.umich.edu/~lsrl) for further
information on pre-registration, etc.
Forgive the lack of diacritic marks on all the vowels that require them!
The LSRL 29 Organizing Committee
___________________________________
THURSDAY, April 8
6:00pm-10:00pm Registration (Concourse)
___________________________________
FRIDAY, April 9:
8:00am-6:00pm, Registration (Concourse)
8:00am-6:00pm, Book Exhibits & Refreshments (Kalamazoo Room)
8:30:-8:50 ADDRESS (MICHIGAN ROOM)
9:00am-10:10am MICHIGAN ROOM
Plenary Speaker: Dieter Wanner
Title TBA
BREAK 10:10-11:00
Syntax Session 11:00-1:00 (Koessler Room):
11:00-11:30
"A Unified Analysis of French and Italian ne-cliticization"
Dieter Vermandere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
11:30-12:00
"Subject/Object Asymmetries without the ECP: The Case of French beaucoup"
Marie-Claude Boivin, MIT
12:00-12:30
"Clipsis"
Cedric Boeckx, University of Connecticut
12:30-1:00
"Eppur si muove! On Comparing French, Portuguese, and Bellunese Wh-Movement"
Jean-Yves Pollock (CNRS, Lyon), Nicola Munaro (University of Padua), and
Cecilia Poletto (University of Padua)
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
Syntax Session 3:00-5:00 (Koessler Room):
3:00-3:30
"Adjectival Agreement within DP without Feature Movement"
Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam/HIL
3:30-4:00
"On Becoming a Clitic: The Prenominal Possessive in Romance"
Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Texas at El Paso
4:00-4:30
"Some Cross-linguistic Evidence against Noun-movement within the Determiner
Phrase"
Asuncion Martinez-Arbelaiz, Michigan State University
4:30-5:00
"Romanian Nominal Structure, Proforms, and Genitive Case Checking"
Edward J. Rubin, University of Utah
BREAK: 5:00-5:30
5:30 - 6:40 MICHIGAN ROOM
Plenary Speaker: Esther Torrego
"Aspects of Determiner Case in Romance"
RECEPTION 7:00-8:00 HUSSEY ROOM
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00-9:00 HUSSEY ROOM
___________________________________
FRIDAY, April 9: (PARALELL SESSIONS)
Phonology Session 11:00-1:00 (Room D):
11:00-11:30
"Contrast Maintenance and Intervocalic Stop Lenition in Spanish and
Portuguese: When is it All Right to Lenite?"
Anthony M. Lewis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
11:30-12:00
"Uniform Exponence and Word-final Prevocalic /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish"
Travis Bradley, The Pennsylvania State University
12:00-12:30
"Coda Obstruents and Local Constraint Conjunction in a Dialect of
Peninsular Spanish"
Richard E. Morris, Middle Tennessee State University
12:30-1:00
"An Integrated Account of the Spanish Consonant System"
Miguel Vazquez Larruscain, University of Chicago
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
Semantics Session 3:00-5:00 (Room D):
3:00-3:30
"Non-logical if "
Josep Quer, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
3:30-4:00
"The Semantics of Spanish Free Relatives"
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, The Ohio State University
4:00-4:30
"The Aspectual Ambiguity of Italian finche "
Stefano Vegnaduzzo (UCLA) and Manuel Espanol-Echevarria (Universite Laval)
4:30-5:00
"Even even can be an NPI: Evidence from Spanish"
Laura Barker and Elena Herburger, Georgetown University
___________________________________
SATURDAY, April 10:
8:00am-6:00pm, Registration (Concourse)
8:00am-6:00pm, Book Exhibits & Refreshments (Kalamazoo Room)
Syntax Session 8:30-10:30 (Koessler Room):
8:30-9:00
"The Acquisition of IP Aspect in Spanish as a Second Language: A View from
Syntax"
Silvina Montrul (SUNY Albany) and Roumyana Slabakova (University of Iowa)
9:00-9:30
"Selecting Atomic Cells from Temporal Domains: Fixing Parameters in Romance"
Joan Rafel, Universitat de Girona
9:30-10:00
"Resultativity in French -- A Study in Contrastive Linguistics"
Patrick Caudal, Universite Paris 7
10:00-10:30
"Word Order in Romance Absolute Past Participle Constructions"
Ana Lucia Santos, Universidade do Minho
BREAK 10:30-11:00
Syntax Session 11:00-1:00 (Koessler Room):
11:00-11:30
"On Preverbal Subjects in Spanish"
Grant Goodall, University of Texas at El Paso
11:30-12:00
" 'Partial' Paradigms of Subject Pronouns: A Feature Geometry?"
David Heap, University of Western Ontario
12:00-12:30
"Locative Inversion in Italian and Spanish: Case Checking and Attract-F"
Paula Kempchinsky, University of Iowa
12:30-1:00
"New Thoughts on Stylistic Inversion"
R.S. Kayne (NYU) and J.-Y. Pollock (CNRS, Lyon)
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
Syntax / Semantics Session 3:00-5:00 (Koessler Room):
3:00-3:30
"Spec, DP and (In)definiteness: From Romanian Genitives to Hebrew
Construct State"
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS, Universite Paris 7
3:30-4:00
"The Distribution of Direct and Indirect Inalienable Possession in French"
Johan Rooryck (Leiden University/HIL) and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (KUBrussel)
4:00-4:30
"On the Semantic Nature of Bare NPs in Haitian Creole"
Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University
4:30-5:00
"Settling DISCORD over NEGATIVE CONCORD"
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Universite Paris 7) and Daniela Isac
(University of Bucarest)
BREAK: 5:00-5:30
5:30 - 6:40 HENDERSON ROOM
Plenary Speaker: Enric Vallduv
Title TBA
RECEPTION/DINNER 7:00-10:00 HUSSEY ROOM
10:00-?? PARTY
___________________________________
SATURDAY, April 10: (PARALELL SESSIONS)
Phonology Session 8:30-10:30 (Room D):
8:30-9:00
"Primary Stress in Portuguese non-verbs"
Seung-Hwa Lee, Fale-Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil
9:00-9:30
"Preantepenultimate Stress in Latin"
Haike Jacobs, Nymegen University/Free University Amsterdam
9:30-10:00
"Primary Stress in Spanish"
Zsuzsanna Barkanyi, ELTE University of Budapest
10:00-10:30
"Re-examining Spanish Resyllabification"
Timothy Face, The Ohio State University
BREAK 10:30-11:00
Sociolinguistics Session 11:00-1:00 (Room D):
11:00-11:30
"Conditions on Conditional Usage in French Hypothetical si-Clauses
Carmen L. LeBlanc and Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa
11:30-12:00
"The Use of NP, pronoun, and zero in Peninsular Spanish Narratives:
Evidence for an Episodic Approach"
Llorenc Comajoan, Indiana University
12:00-12:30
"Contrastive Discourse Markers in Spanish: Beyond Contrast"
Monica Malamud Makowski, Stanford University
12:30-1:00
"Polysemy Patterns of Emphatic Pronouns in Spanish and Catalan"
Matthew L. Juge, University of California at Berkeley
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
Phonology/Morphology Session 3:00-5:00 (Room D):
3:00-3:30
"Non-Homorganic Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects"
Lori Repetti, SUNY Stony Brook
3:30-4:00
"Non-concatenative Morphology in Spanish"
Carlos-Eduardo Pineros, Central Michigan University
4:00-4:30
"Functional Elements in the Romanian DP"
Albert Ortmann and Alexandra Popescu, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf
4:30-5:00
"On Catalan Verbal Morphology"
Isabel Oltra Massuet, MIT
___________________________________
SUNDAY, April 11:
8:00am-12:00pm, Book Exhibits & Refreshments (Kalamazoo Room)
Syntax Session 8:30-10:30 (Koessler Room):
8:30-9:00
"A Subjunctive Approach to 'Root Infinitives' "
Rikardo Etxepare (LEHIA) and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Maryland)
9:00-9:30
"Functional Categories and the Acquisition of Clitics in L2 French"
Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington
9:30-10:00
"On the Acquisition of Spanish N-N Compounds"
Juana M. Liceras, University of Ottawa
10:00-10:30
"Bare Nouns and the Morpho-syntax of Number"
Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University
Phonology Session 8:30-10:30 (Room D):
8:30-9:00
"Accounting for Intraspeaker Variation within a Constraint-based Framework:
A Case Study of Vocalic Epenthesis in
Vimeu Picard"
Jeffrey Steele (McGill University) and Julie Auger (Indiana University)
9:00-9:30
"Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian Language: A Constraint-based
Approach to Pidgin/Creole Phonology"
John m. Lipski, University of New Mexico
9:30-10:00
"A Constraint-based Account of Metaphony in Proto-Spanish and Lena Leonese"
Fernando Martinez-Gil, The Ohio State University
10:00-10:30
"French Glides and Markedness"
Bernard Tranel, UC Irvine
BREAK: 10:30-11:00
11:00am-12:10am HUSSEY ROOM
Plenary Speaker: James Harris
Title TBA
Closing Remarks.
___________________________________
PARASESSION:
New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics
FRIDAY, April 9:
PARASESSION A 11:00-1:00 MICHIGAN ROOM
11:00-11:30
"The Role of Features in Historical Change"
Monique Dufresne (UQAM & Queens), Fernande Dupuis (UQAM), and Mireille
Tremblay (Queens University)
11:30-12:00
"Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile"
Donald Tuten, Emory University
12:00-12:30
"New Functions for Old Forms: The Exaptation of Romance Participant Pronouns"
John Charles Smith, University of Oxford (St. Catherine's College)
12:30-1:00
"Another Look at Middle French Narrative Tenses"
Charles L. Pooser, SUNY at Stony Brook
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
PARASESSION B 3:00-5:00 MICHIGAN ROOM
3:00-3:30
"A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the 'Cycle' in Historical
Romance Linguistics"
Jurgen Klausenburger, University of Washington
3:30-4:00
"On the Origin and Evolution of the Catalan Periphrastic Preterit"
Manuel Perez Saldanya (Universitat de Valncia) and Jose Ignacio Hualde
(University of Illinois)
4:00-4:30
"Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion"
Ken Johnson, Purdue University
4:30-5:00
"The Grammaticalization of 'estar', 'ir', 'andar', and 'venir': The
Auxiliaries of the Progressive"
Amy Orf, Northern Michigan University
___________________________________
SATURDAY, April 10:
PARASESSION C 8:30-10:30 HENDERSON ROOM
8:30-9:00
"Subject Clitics and the Decline of Verb-Second in French"
Barbara Vance, Indiana University
9:00-9:30
"From the Loss of V2 to the Rise of Subject Clitics: A View on Minimal
Diachronic Change"
Paola Beninca and Cecilia Poletto (University of Padua)
9:30-10:00
"A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel's Law"
Enrique Mallen, Texas A&M University
10:00-10:30
"Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French"
France Martineau (University of Ottawa) and Virginia Motapanyane
(University of New Brunswick)
BREAK 10:30-11:00
PARASESSION D 11:00-1:00 HENDERSON ROOM
11:00-11:30
"An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Two Early W. Romance
Grammars: A Contrastive Examination of Old
French and Old Spanish"
Dale Hartkemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30-12:00
"Remnants of Geminates in Spanish: Rhotics"
Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University
12:00-12:30
"A New Solution to the Dating of Syllable-final Consonant Loss in Old
French: Theoretical Motivation and Empirical
Support"
Randall Gess, University of Utah
12:30-1:00
"Analogy and Optimality Theory: An Explanation of Morphological Change in
Southwest Spanish"
Glenn A. Martinez, The University of Texas - Pan American
LUNCH 1:00-3:00
PARASESSION E 3:00-5:00 HENDERSON ROOM
3:00-3:30
"Morphological Variation, Convergence, and Contact Phenomena in Early
Navarro-Aragonese and Castilian"
Brian Imhoff, Texas A&M University
3:30-4:00
"Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement
Morphology"
Andres Enrique-Arias, University of Southern California
4:00-4:30
"Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placement of French Clitics"
Paul Hirschbuhler (U. d'Ottawa & CSLI) and Marie Labelle (UQAM &CSLI)
4:30-5:00
"Modeling Syntactic Change: Evidence from Computer-based Studies of
Infinitival Complements in Spanish and Portuguese"
Mark Davies, Illinois State University
___________________________________
SUNDAY, April 11:
PARASESSION F: 8:30-10:30 HUSSEY ROOM
8:30-9:00
"Phonological Split and Multivariant Reanalysis"
Janice M. Aski, Emory University
9:00-9:30
"Romance Lenition Once Again, with Caution"
Thomas D. Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:30-10:00
" 'With Whom Does This Conduct Sit Well?' Diachronic Analysis and
Disambiguation of the French Verb 'seoir' "
G. Aileen Clark, University of Ottawa
10:00-10:30
"The Evidence for Language Contact Between Dalmatian and Albanian"
Kelly Lynne Maynard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
___________________________________
Alternates:
"Optionality in the Spanish Complementizer System" (Syntax)
Claudia Brovetto, Georgetown University
"Variation in Spanish and Prosodic Boundary Constraints" (Phonology)
Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida
"On the Expression of Non-specific Indefiniteness in Romance: Forms and
Sensitivity" (Semantics)
Joao Peres, Universidade de Lisboa
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