12.269, Confs: 2001 TLS - Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

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Subject: 12.269, Confs: 2001 TLS - Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

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Date:  Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:48:23 -0600
From:  TLS <tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject:  2001 Texas Ling Society - The Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

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Date:  Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:48:23 -0600
From:  TLS <tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject:  2001 Texas Ling Society - The Role of Agreement in Natural Lang

           2001 Texas Linguistic Society Conference

           The Role of Agreement in Natural Language

           March 2-4, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Preliminary Program
(subject to change)

Friday, March 2nd

8:30-9:30am  COFFEE & REGISTRATION
9:30-10:00am  OPENING REMARKS

Session 1

10:00-10:30am  Number, Gender and Person Agreement in Prenominal
Possessives
    Nancy Mae Antrim, UT-El Paso

10:30-11:00am  Agreement Patterns in Maasai Possessive DPs
    Gianluca Storto, UCLA

11:00-11:30am  Inflected Complementizers and the Licensing of
Non-referential Pro-drop
    Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Universite de Poitiers

11:30-1:00pm  LUNCH

Session 2

1:00-1:30pm  Lexical, Semantic, and Structural Gender
    Stephen Wechsler, UT-Austin

1:30-2:00pm  Quantifier Agreement in Korean
    Sungeon Cho, MIT

2:00-2:30pm  D-raising and Asymmetric Agreement in French
    Antonia Androutsopoulou, UCLA
    Manuel Español Echevarría, Université Laval

2:30-2:45pm  BREAK

Session 3

2:45-3:15pm  Hybrid Agreement in English
    Jong-bok Kim, Kyung Hee University
    Kyung-Sup Lim, Dongshin University

3:15-3:45pm  The Functional Projections of Split Subjects
    Mary S. Linn, University of Kansas
    Sara Thomas Rosen, University of Kansas

3:45-4:15pm  Agreement:  Terms and Boundaries
    Greville Corbett, University of Surrey

4:15-4:45pm  Towards a Typology of Agreement Phenomena
   Tania Avgustinova, University of Saarland
   Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI

4:45-5:00pm  BREAK

Keynote Address

5:00-6:00pm  Functional Categories and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
    Margaret Speas, UMASS

6:30pm   Happy Hour (at Dog & Duck Pub)

Saturday, March 3rd

8:30-9:00am  COFFEE & REGISTRATION

Keynote Address

9:00-10:00am  The Locality of Agreement
    Hilda Koopman, UCLA

10:00-10:15am  BREAK

Session 1

10:15-10:45am  Agree, Move and Eliminate the Phrase Impenetrability
Condition
    Sandra Stjepanovic, Kanda University of International Studies
    Shoichi Takahashi, Kanda University of International Studies

10:45-11:15am  Defective Feature Copy and Anti-agreement in Language
Production
    Roland Pfau, Johan-Wolfgang-Goethe University

11:15-11:45am  Resumptive Strategies, Hyperraising and Left-branch
Violations as Effects of Anti-agreement
    Cedric Boeckx, UCONN

11:45-1:00pm  LUNCH

Session 2

1:00-1:30pm  Adjectival Agreement and the Individual-Event Distinction
in Balanta
    Kirsten Fudeman, Ithaca College

1:30-2:00pm  Agreement, Specificity Effects, and Phrase Structure in
Rural Palestinian Arabic Existential Constructions
    Fredrick M. Hoyt, UT-Austin

2:00-2:30pm  Morphological and Semantic Plurality in Hebrew
    Ron Artstein, Rutgers University

2:30-3:00pm  A Morphological and Pragmatic Approach to Korean Partial
Honorific Agreement
    In-Cheol Choi, UT-Austin

3:00-3:15pm  BREAK

Session 3

3:15-3:45pm  Agreement Features in Sentence Processing:  A
Sentence-matching Study on Subject-verb and Noun Phrase Internal Agreement
in German
    Ulrike Jansen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
    Sonja Eisenbeiss, Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics
    Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet

3:45-4:15pm  Aspects of Agreement:  Evidence that Agreement Morphology
and Aspectual Distinctions are Acquired Independently by Child L2 Learners
    Tania Ionin, MIT

4:15-4:45pm  Partial Agreement and Attraction by F[person]
    Ivy Sichel, CUNY

4:45-7:00pm  DINNER

7:00-11:00pm  TLS Party

Sunday, March 3rd

8:30-9:00am  COFFEE & REGISTRATION

Keynote Address

9:00-10:00am  The Two Faces of Agreement
    Sandra Chung, UC-Santa Cruz

10:00-10:15am  BREAK

Session 1

10:15-10:45aam  The Optionality of Agreement Phrase:  Evidence from
Signed Languages
    Christian Rathmann, UT-Austin

10:45-11:15am  French Object Agreement with Restructuring Verbs
    Eric Mathieu, University College London

11:15-11:30am    BREAK

Session 2

11:30-12:00pm  Displaced Agreement Suffix in Suleimaniya Kurdish:  A
Distributed
   Morphology Approach
    Behrad Aghaei, UT-Austin

12:00-12:30pm  Feature Movement Approach to Subject Agreement in Korean
    Changguk Yim, Cornell University

12:30-1:00pm  CONCLUDING REMARKS

Alternates

   Long-distance Agreement in Hindi
    Rajesh Bhatt, UT-Austin

   The Status of Agreement Phrase in Universal Grammar
    William Earl Grifin, UT-Austin

Anyone interested in attending the conference, or finding out more about
the conference can downlowd more information from the conference web site at:

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2001tls/index.html

or contact the organizers directly at:

tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu

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