10.1519, Confs: Lang Learnability/Ling Theory - NELS 30
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:30:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ron Artstein <artstein at eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Lang Learnability/Ling Theory - NELS 30
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:30:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ron Artstein <artstein at eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Lang Learnability/Ling Theory - NELS 30
NELS 30 - Conference of the North East Linguistic Society
and the special workshop on
Language Learnability and Linguistic Theory
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, as well as talk abstracts:
http://ling.rutgers.edu/nels30
REGISTRATION:
Advance registration is closed. On-site registration is $50
for everyone else, $25 for students, payable in cash or in
checks drawn on US banks (make checks payable to Rutgers
University).
UPDATED PROGRAM:
Friday, October 22 (Fiber-Optic Auditorium, Busch Campus,
Piscataway NJ)
08:30 Special invited workshop:
Language Learnability and Linguistic Theory
- Janet Dean Fodor, CUNY: What is innate need not be
learned?
- Robin Clark, Pennsylvania: Causation and Explanation:
The Role of Learnability
- Elan Dresher, Toronto: Meno's Paradox and the
Learnability of Grammar
- Bruce Tesar, Rutgers: Overcoming Structural Ambiguity
in Language Learning
- Commentators: Robert Matthews and Matthew Stone,
Rutgers.
13:00 ---registration and lunch---
(Plenary Session)
Session I: Syntax-Semantics Interface
14:20 Opening Remarks
14:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Anna Szabolcsi, NYU
15:30 Yoad Winter, Technion: DP Structure and Flexible
Semantics
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 (Frelinghuysen Hall, College Avenue
Campus, New Brunswick NJ)
(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 Bert Vaux, Harvard: Uyghur Raising and the Nature of
(Under)specification
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 (Frelinghuysen Hall, College Avenue
Campus, New Brunswick NJ)
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: Manuel Espanol-Echevarria, Universite Laval
and Stefano Vegnaduzzo, UCLA: Generalizing Exception
Constructions: the Case of Romance UNTIL
10:00 Carlo Cecchetto, Siena: What syntax cannot do is
pseudocleft connectivity
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:
* Ahmadu Ndanusa Kawu, Rutgers/Ilorin: Structural Markedness
and Nonreduplicative Copying
- 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
- 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
- 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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