16.252, Confs: General Ling/Berkeley, California, USA

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Subject: 16.252, Confs: General Ling/Berkeley, California, USA

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Date: 25-Jan-2005
From: Yuni Kim < yuni at berkeley.edu >
Subject: 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:24:56
From: Yuni Kim < yuni at berkeley.edu >
Subject:  31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 

31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 
Short Title: BLS 31 

Date: 18-Feb-2005 - 20-Feb-2005 
Location: Berkeley, CA, United States of America 
Contact: Rebecca Cover 
Contact Email: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a
Special Session. 

The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 31st Annual
Meeting, to be held February 18-20, 2005 in Dwinelle Hall at UC Berkeley. 
The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession on
''Prosodic Variation and Change,'' and a Special Session on ''Languages of
West Africa.''

Invited speakers include Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz), Eve Clark
(Stanford), Nick Evans (Melbourne/Cologne), José Hualde (UIUC), Paul
Kiparsky (Stanford), Denis Creissels (U. Lumière Lyon 2), Paul Newman
(Indiana), and Russell Schuh (UCLA).

REGISTRATION:
All attendees, including presenters, must register for the meeting.  Send
advance registration to:

BLS 31 Registration
UC Berkeley
1203 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

Received in our office by February 1, 2005:
Students $20 Non-students $40
Received after February 1, 2005:
Students $25 Non-students $55

Checks or money orders should be made payable to Berkeley Linguistics
Society.  Please note that attendees coming from abroad may pay the reduced
(early) registration fee on-site to avoid bank charges.  For further
information, please consult our website or contact the organizers at
bls at socrates.berkeley.edu.

PROGRAM:
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

8:00 am Registration opens, 370 Dwinelle

9-9:50 Invited speaker: Eve Clark (Stanford): Acquiring word meanings

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS & ACQUISITION
10-10:30 Seyda Ozcaliskan (U. Chicago) and Susan Goldin-Meadow (U. 
Chicago): When the hand says more than the mouth: The role of gesture in 
children's early constructions
10:30-11 Stathis Selimis (U. Athens) and Demetra Katis (U. Athens): The
development of metaphorical motion: Evidence from Greek children's  narratives
11-11:30 Meylysa Tseng (U. Hawaii-Manoa): The action-language compatibility
effect in American Sign Language

MORPHOLOGY & PHONOLOGY
10-10:30 Vsevolod Kapatsinski (U. New Mexico): To scheme or to rule: 
Evidence against the Dual Mechanism Model
10:30-11 Marta Abrusan (MIT): Underspecified precedence relation and 
Hungarian vowel-zero alternations
11-11:30 Gaja Jarosz (Johns Hopkins): Polish yers and the finer structure
of output-output correspondence
11:30-12 David Mortensen (UC Berkeley): Phonological parallelism between
compounding and reduplication in Jingpho

LUNCH

1-1:50 Invited speaker: Russell Schuh (UCLA): Yobe State, Nigeria as a
linguistic area

SPECIAL SESSION I
2-2:30 Oliver Bond (U. Manchester) and Gregory D. Anderson (U. Oregon):
Divergent structure in Ogonoid languages
2:30-3 Ron Schaefer (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville) and  Francis
Egbokhare (Ibadan): Aspect-causative interaction in Emai
3-3:30 Oladiipo Ajiboye (UBC): Interpreting Yoruba bare nouns

SYNTAX I
2-2:30 Wooseung Lee (UIUC) and James Hye Suk Yoon (UIUC): The morphosyntax
of case-markers in Korean and its consequences for the analysis of NP
coordinations
2:30-3 Thomas Wier (U. Chicago): (Non)antipassivization and case marking 
in Georgian
3-3:30 Hye Jin Han (U. Chicago): A DP-shell for CPs

BREAK

PARASESSION I
3:45-4:15 Alan Yu (U. Chicago): Prosodically-governed segmental fission in
Washo
4:15-4:45 Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier (SUNY-Buffalo): An acoustic analysis 
of the
separation of pitch and stress in Onondaga
4:45-5:15 Nancy Caplow (UC Santa Barbara): Acoustic characteristics of 
stress and tone in Tibetan

SEMANTICS
3:45-4:15 Karsten Koch (UBC): N-ki-N in Yoruba and the semantics of 'any'
4:15-4:45 Hironobu Hosoi (Gunma Prefectural Women's University): Japanese
plurals
4:45-5:15 Robert Fiorentino (U. Maryland-College Park): Unexpected 
pair-list readings in plural indefinites

BREAK

5:30-6:20 Invited speaker: Jose Hualde (UIUC): Historical convergence  and
divergence in Basque prosody

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19

9-9:50 Invited speaker: Nick Evans (Melbourne/Cologne): View with a  view:
towards a typology of double perspective in natural language

PARASESSION II
10-10:30 Robin Queen (U. Michigan): Contact-related language change and
variability in the intonation patterns of Turkish-German bilinguals in  Germany
10:30-11 Cheryl Zoll (Amherst): Prosodic change, parameters and the New
Englishes
11-11:30 Li-Chiung Yang (Tunghai): Extracting meaning from context: 
Modeling the prosody of 'oh' in Mandarin conversation
11:30-12 David Oshima (Stanford): Boundary tones or prominent particles?
Variation in Japanese focus-marking contours

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
10-10:30 Meylysa Tseng (U. Hawaii-Manoa), Yiran Hu (U. Hawaii-Manoa), 
Wen-Wei Han (U. Hawaii-Manoa), and Benjamin Bergen (U. Hawaii-Manoa):
''Searching for happiness'' or ''full of joy''? Source  domain activation
matters
10:30-11 Kiyoko Toratani (York): A cognitive approach to mimetic aspect in
Japanese
11-11:30 Yukiko Sugiyama (SUNY-Buffalo): Not all verb-framed languages are
created equal: the case of Japanese
11:30-12 Chris Taylor (Rice): It's gotten to where we can talk about it: 
''to where'' and the constructional-pragmatic scale

LUNCH

1-1:50 Invited speaker: Denis Creissels (U. Lumière Lyon 2): West African
languages with a S O V X constituent order

SPECIAL SESSION II
2-2:30 Fiona McLaughlin (U. Florida): Affix-controlled ATR harmony in
Seereer-Siin
2:30-3 Mariame Sy (UCLA): Ultra long-distance ATR agreement in Wolof
3-3:30 Harold Torrence (UCLA): On the structure of Wolof relative clauses
3:30-4 Leston Buell and Mariame Sy (UCLA): Affix orders and the embedding
of predicates in Wolof

HISTORICAL & SOCIOLINGUISTICS
2-2:30 Nassira Nicola (Harvard): Language politics 101: language, power,
and Law 101 in deaf education in Quebec
2:30-3 Rena Torres Cacoullos (U. New Mexico) and Scott Schwenter (OSU):
Towards an operational notion of subjectification
3-3:30 Luc Baronian (U. New Brunswick-St. John/Stanford): Pre-Acadian Cajun
French
3:30-4 Michael Ahland (U. Oregon): Nasal spreading, rhinoglottophilia and 
the genesis of a non- etymological nasal consonant in Mesmes

BREAK

SYNTAX II
4:15-4:45 Eunjeong Oh (USC) and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (USC): A 
lexico-constructional approach to double object constructions in  L2-English
4:45-5:15 Patricia Schneider-Zioga (UC Irvine): The left edge, not 
agreement, is responsible for partial configurationality
5:15-5:45 Hamid Ouali and Acrisio Pires (U. Michigan): Tense and aspect in
Berber
5:45-6:15 Seiki Ayano (Mie): Talmy's lexical-semantic typology and three 
kinds of directional PP in Japanese

PHONOLOGY
4:15-4:45 Olga Vaysman (MIT/Pomona): Foot structure and prominence: a case
 of mismatch
4:45-5:15 Chenghao Chiu (National Chung Cheng University): Phonological 
words in language production in Mandarin
5:15-5:45 Rachel Walker (USC) and Fidèle Mpiranya (USC/CNRS UMR 7018): On 
triggers and opacity in coronal harmony
5:45-6:15 Patrik Bye (Tromsø/CASTL) and Sylvia Blaho (Tromsø/CASTL):
Cryptosegments and the underapplication of voicing assimilation in 
Biaspectual Phonology

6:15 Reception
7:00 Dinner party

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20

9-9:50 Invited speaker: Paul Newman (Indiana): New findings about
Klingenheben's Law in Hausa: It's more nuanced and more interesting than 
we thought

SPECIAL SESSION II
10-10:30 Ekkehard Wolff (Leipzig): Encoding topography and direction in 
the verbal systems of Central Chadic Lamang and Hdi
10:30-11 Mark Van de Velde (Leuven): The alleged class 2a prefix bO in 
Eton, a plural word
11-11:30 Jason Kandybowicz (UCLA): On the syntax of Nupe coordination
11:30-12 Steven Moran (Eastern Michigan University): Endo and exocentric
compounding in Western Sisaala

PARASESSION III
10-10:30 Stuart Davis (Indiana) and Karen Baertsch (Southern Illinois 
University-Carbondale): The diachronic link between onset clusters and  codas
10:30-11 Guido Seiler (Zurich): Open syllable shortening in Bernese German
11-11:30 Kristin Hanson (UC Berkeley): The naturalization of the Romance
caesura in the English iambic pentameter
11:30-12 Joel Wallenberg (U. Penn): Formal metrics meets the Boojum: 
Metrical variation in Lewis Carroll's verse

LUNCH

1-1:50 Invited speaker: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford): Where Stochastic OT 
fails: discrete models of metrical variation

SYNTAX III
2-2:30 Cilene Rodrigues (Brasilia): Controlling gender agreement
2:30-3 Philip Resnik (U. Maryland-College Park), Aaron Elkiss (U. 
Maryland-College Park), Heather Taylor (U. Maryland-College Park), and 
Ellen Lau (U. Maryland-College Park): The Web in theoretical linguistics 
research: Two case studies using the Linguist's Search Engine
3-3:30 T. Florian Jaeger and Tom Wasow (Stanford): The role of referential
accessibility hierarchies in language production
3:30-4 Arnold Zwicky (Stanford): Gonna, auxiliary reduction, and two
modules of syntactic organization

PRAGMATICS & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
2-2:30 Yoko Hasegawa (UC Berkeley): A study of soliloquy in Japanese
2:30-3 Betty Birner (Northern Illinois): The distribution of inferrable 
information in discourse
3-3:30 Anne Sturgeon (UC Santa Cruz): The discourse function of Czech left
dislocation
3:30-4 Makiko Takekuro (UC Berkeley): Attunement in sequential use of 
Japanese honorifics

BREAK

4:15-5:05 Invited speaker: Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz): Sluicing and  the
lexicon: The point of no return

Closing remarks

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