11.221, Confs: Formal Linguistics, WCCFL XIX
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:48:27 -0800
From: Misha Becker <mbecker at ucla.edu>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL XIX) -Final Program
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:48:27 -0800
From: Misha Becker <mbecker at ucla.edu>
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL XIX) -Final Program
WCCFL XIX
19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
FINAL PROGRAM
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Friday, February 4
7:30 REGISTRATION, Royce Hall,
Room 306 ("Herb Morris Room")
8:45 - 9:00 Introductory Remarks by ED KEENAN,
Royce Hall, Room 314
Session A: Syntax and Semantics
Royce Hall, Room 314
Chair: TIM STOWELL, UCLA
9:00 - 9:30 Complementation and veridicality:
a comparison between Greek and English
ANNA ROUSSOU, University of Cyprus
IAN ROBERTS, University of Stuttgart
9:30 - 10:00 Expletives as Features
JOACHIM SABEL, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
JOHANN WOLFGANG, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
10:00 - 10:30 V1 Phenomena and the Syntax/Prosody Interface
DAVID ADGER, University of York
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Chair: JIM HUANG, UCI
10:45 - 11:15 Aspect and Partitive Objects in Finnish
KARINE MEGERDOOMIAN, USC and CRL, New Mexico State University
11:15 - 11:45 Determiner Sharing
VIVIAN LIN, MIT
11:45 - 12:15 Noun Phrase Word Order and Definiteness in Japanese
TOMOMI KAKEGAWA, Michigan State University
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch
Session B: Syntax and Semantics
Royce Hall, Room 314
Chair: NAOKI FUKUI, UCI
2:00 - 2:30 Adverbial quantification over (interrogative) complements
ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 - 3:00 On Inclusive Questions
RICHARD ZUBER, CNRS, Paris
3:00 - 3:30 Temporal Interpretation of Participles
KIYOMI KUSUMOTO, Harvard University
3:30 - 3:45 Break
Chair: JOSEPH AOUN, USC
3:45 - 4:15 Scope Dependencies and the structure
of Headed Relative Clauses
CALIXTO AGUERO-BAUTISTA, MIT
4:15 - 4:45 The Interaction of Obligatory and Non-obligatory
Control in Rationale Clauses
MANUEL ESPANOL-ECHEVARRIA, Université Laval
4:45 - 5:15 Deriving Adversity
LIINA PYLKKÄNEN, MIT
Session C: Workshop on the Acquisition of Auxiliaries
Royce Hall, Room 154
Chair: MISHA BECKER, UCLA
2:00-2:45 Auxiliary Insertion in Child Dutch
SHALOM ZUCKERMAN, University of Groningen
ROELIEN BASTIAANSE, University of Groningen
RON VAN ZONNEVELD, University of Groningen
2:45-3:30 Auxiliaries, Features and the Grammar of Inversion in the
Acquisition of English Yes/No Questions
LYNN SANTELMANN, Portland State University
STEPHANIE BERK, University of Connecticut
BARBARA LUST, Cornell University
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45-4:30 Auxiliaries and Topic Drop in Child English
KEN WEXLER, MIT
JENNY GANGER, University of Pittsburgh
4:30-5:00 General question and discussion period
5:15 - 5:45 Break
5:45 - 7:15 Invited Speaker: RICHARD KAYNE, NYU
How Movement, Binding and Agreement are Related
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Saturday, February 5
Session D: Phonology
Royce Hall, Room 362
Chair: BRUCE HAYES, UCLA
9:00 - 9:30 Predicting Irregularity in Tamil Verbs
BHAVANI SARAVANAN, University of Utah
9:30 - 10:00 Ternary Rhythm Through Binary Footing in Estonian
STEVE MCCARTNEY, University of Texas at Austin
10:00 - 10:30 Opaque Consonant Gradation in Finnish:
The Case of Possessive Suffixes
HELI HARRIKARI, University of Helsinki
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Chair: BERNARD TRANEL, UCI
10:45 - 11:15 Perceptual Distinctiveness in Reduplication
ANDREW WEDEL, UC Santa Cruz
11:15 - 11:45 Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Yoruba:
the Seeds of ATR Vowel Harmony
MAREK PRZEZDZIECKI, Cornell University
11:45 - 12:15 The Phonetic Basis for Tonal Melody Mapping
in Mende and Elsewhere
JIE ZHANG, UCLA
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch / Business Meeting
Chair: SHARON ROSE, UCSD
2:00 - 2:30 Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints
ERIC BAKOVIC, Penn State University
COLIN WILSON, Johns Hopkins University
2:30 - 3:00 Long-Distance Consonantal Identity Effects
RACHEL WALKER, USC
3:00 - 3:30 Arguments for a rhyme-based account of
stressed syllable faithfulness
NICOLE NELSON, Rutgers University
3:30 - 3:45 Break
Chair: RACHEL WALKER, USC
3:45 - 4:15 Reduplication in Southern Paiute and Correspondence Theory
NAOMI GUREVICH, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:15 - 4:45 Dynamic versus Static Phonotactic Constraints Account
for Over-, Under-, and Regular Application in
Reduplicative and Truncatory Morphology
DANIEL SILVERMAN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:45 - 5:15 The Base(s) of Double Reduplications
SUZANNE URBANCZYK, University of Calgary
Session E: Syntax and Semantics
Royce Hall, Room 314
Chair: HAGIT BORER, USC
9:00 - 9:30 Repair-Driven Movement and Local Optimization
FABIAN HECK, Universität Stuttgart
GEREON MÜLLER, Universität Tübingen
9:30 - 10:00 Contrastive Left Dislocation, Reconstruction and Movement
KLEANTHES K. GROHMANN, University of Maryland
10:00 - 10:30 Free Adjunct Free Relatives
ROUMYANA IZVORSKI, Georgetown University/USC
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Chair: RICHARD LARSON, SUNY, Stony Brook
10:45 - 11:15 Instrumental Case and Verb Raising in the Russian Copula
ORA MATUSHANSKY, MIT
11:15 - 11:45 Agreement, Shells and Focus
ANDREW SIMPSON, SOAS
ZOE WU, USC
11:45 - 12:15 The Structure of Agreement Failure in Lebanese Arabic
PETER HALLMAN, UCLA
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch / Business Meeting
Chair: ROBERT MAY, UCI
2:00 - 2:30 The Two Verbs Begin, Again
MARIA POLINSKY, UCSD
ERIC POTSDAM, Yale University
2:30 - 3:00 The Loss of the Verb Second Constraint in Middle English
RASHMI PRASAD, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 - 3:30 Passive and Passive-Like Constructions in Hmong
CASSANDRE CRESWELL, University of Pennsylvania
KIERAN SNYDER, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 - 3:45 Break
Chair: AUDREY LI, USC
3:45 - 4:15 ACD in AP
RICHARD LARSON, SUNY, Stony Brook
4:15 - 4:45 Quantification in Blackfoot
JENNIFER GLOUGIE, University of British Columbia
4:45 - 5:15 Scope Ambiguity and "Scrambling"
J.-R. HAYASHISHITA, USC
5:15 - 5:45 Break
5:45 - 7:15 Invited Speaker: JOHN MCCARTHY, UMass, Amherst
Phonological Derivations in Harmonic Serialism
7.30 Party/Dinner, Royce Hall, Room 314
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Sunday, February 6
Session F: Syntax and Acquisition
Royce Hall, Room 314
Chair: ANOOP MAHAJAN, UCLA
9:00 - 9:30 Syntactic Wh-Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut
CARRIE GILLON, University of British Columbia
9:30 - 10:00 The Syntax of Focus and Wh-in-situ:
Evidence for Covert Phrasal Movement
JON NISSENBAUM, MIT
10:00 - 10:30 Multiple Wh-Questions and Multiple Specifiers
HIDEKAZU TANAKA, University of British Columbia
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Chair: NINA HYAMS, UCLA
10:45 - 11:15 An Argument against Multiple Specifiers
JAN-WOUTER ZWART, NOW/University of Groningen
11:15 - 11:45 Resultatives Result from the Compounding Parameter:
On the Acquisitional Correlation between Resultatives
and N-N Compounds in Japanese
KOJI SUGISAKI, University of Connecticut
MIWA ISOBE, Keio University
11:45 - 12:15 The Acquisition of the English Copula
MISHA BECKER, UCLA
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Alternates
ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOU, UCLA: On the (In)ability of Prenominal
Adjectives to Take Complements
BARBARA CITKO, SUNY-Stony Brook: (Anti)-Reconstruction Effects in Free
Relatives
PAUL ELBOURNE, MIT: Donkey Anaphora as NP-Ellipsis
KLEANTHES K. GROHMANN, University of Maryland, JOHN DRURY, University
of Maryland, JUAN CARLOS CASTILLO, University of Iowa: No More "EPP"
ISABEL OLTRA-MASSUET, UAB: On the Constituent Structure of Catalan
Verbs
ROBERT PODESYA, Stanford University: Constraints on Geminates in
Buginese and Selyarese
ITZIAR SAN MARTIN, University of Maryland: Control in Basque
HIROKO YAMAKIDO, SUNY-Stony Brook Japanese Attributive Adjectives are
not Relative Clauses
For further information, visit the WCCFL XIX web page at
http://www.wccfl.org
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Misha Becker
UCLA Department of Linguistics
Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
(310) 825-0634
mbecker at ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/grads/becker/becker.htm
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