17.1537, Confs: General Ling/Jerusalem, Israel

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Subject: 17.1537, Confs: General Ling/Jerusalem, Israel

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Date: 16-May-2006
From: Ariel Cohen < arikc at bgu.ac.il >
Subject: 22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical Linguistics 

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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 17:34:52
From: Ariel Cohen < arikc at bgu.ac.il >
Subject: 22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical Linguistics 

22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical Linguistics 
Short Title: IATL 22 

Date: 02-Jul-2006 - 03-Jul-2006 
Location: Jerusalem, Israel 
Contact: Ariel Cohen 
Contact Email: arikc at bgu.ac.il 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

THE 22ND ANNUAL MEETING - ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS

July 2-3 (Sunday-Monday), 2006
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Adele Goldberg, Princeton

IATL 22, the 22nd annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on July 2-3, 2006.  The meeting this year will be celebrating the 80th birthday of our colleague, Anita Mittwoch, founding member of IATL and past president of the association.  

Further information: arikc at bgu.ac.il 

The 22nd Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics will be held in Beit Belgia, Givat Ram Campus, The Hebrew University, Israel.

Program
IATL 22
July 2-3, 2006
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Sunday, July 2, 2006 
9:30-10:00	
Gathering and refreshments 
10:00-10:15	
Welcome and greetings
10:15-10:55	
Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer - University of Stuttgart
Towards a typology of instrument subjects
10:55-11:35	
David Hron - Tel Aviv University
On the derivation of Czech reflexive nouns
11:35-11:50	
Coffee Break
11:50-12:30	
Stanley Dubinsky   - University of South Carolina
Parasitic gaps and the structure of events            
12:30-13:10	
Itamar Francez - Stanford University
Semantic structure and argument realization in (mostly Hebrew) existentials
13:10-14:30	
Lunch
14:30-15:10	
Eytan Zweig - New York University
The plurality of bare plurals    
15:10-15:50	
Yael Greenberg - Bar-Ilan University
The semantics / pragmatics of still in the analysis of the Hebrew beodo construction
15:50-16:05	
Coffee Break
16:05-16:45	
Elena Herburger and Simon Mauck - Georgetown University
A semantic account of the 'conjunctive' reading of ''or''  in conditionals 
16:45-17:45	
Invited talk - Tanya Reinhart - 
Tel Aviv University and Utrecht University
The processing cost of implicatures

Monday, July 3, 2006 
09:30-10:30	
Invited talk -- Adele Goldberg -- Princeton University
Constructions and the nature of generalization in language
10:30-11:10	
Chris H. Reintges -- Leiden University
A syntactic derivation of eventive and stative passives: New evidence from Old Egyptian
11:10-11:25	
Coffee Break
11:25-12:05		
Aya Meltzer -- Tel Aviv University
Adjectival passives and adjectival decausatives in Hebrew 
12:05-12:45        
Hamutal Kreiner -- University of Glasgow, 
Patrick Sturt -- University of Edinburgh, 
and Simon Garrod -- University of Glasgow
The time course of lexical vs. stereotypical gender processing in reference resolution:  Evidence from eye-movement 
12:45-13:15	
Business Meeting
13:15-14:15	
Lunch
14:15-14:55	
Omer Preminger - Tel Aviv University 
Feature inheritance at the phase boundary 
14:55-15:35	
Ion Giurgea -- Universite Paris VII ''Denis Diderot''  
''Split DP topicalization'':  A new look at an  old problem
15:35-15:50	
Coffee Break
15:50-16:30	
Irena Botwinik-Rotem -- Tel Aviv University  
Why are they different: A case study of Hebrew locative PPs
16:30-17:30	    
Invited Talk  -- Martin Everaert -- Utrecht University
The partitioning of anaphoric dependencies

	Reception

Alternates
Lior Laks -- Tel Aviv University
The Interaction between Morphology and thematic operations: Evidence from the verbal system of Modern Standard Arabic

Julia Adler -- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lexical semantics and information structure: alternations with German verbs of transfer

Immediately following IATL, at the same place, there will be a Workshop on Syntax, Lexicon, and Event Structure, Honoring Anita Mittwoch on her 80th Birthday.

Program

Tuesday, July 4

9-9:10			
Greetings 

9:10 - 10:00		
Angelika Kratzer
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Decomposing Attitude Verbs

10:00 - 10:50		
Adele Goldberg
Princeton University
On the Relation Between Verbs and Constructions

10:50 - 11:10		
coffee break

11:10 - 12:00		
Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Thomas Rosen
University of Calgary and University of Kansas
Animacy in Blackfoot:  Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure

12:00 - 12:50		
Martin Everaert
Utrecht University
>From Lexical Semantics to Syntactic Structure: Auxiliary Selection

12:50 - 14:10 		
LUNCH

14:10 - 15:00		
Tanya Reinhart
Tel Aviv University
Causativization and Decausativization

15:00 - 15:50		
Tali Siloni and Julia Horvath
Tel Aviv University
Causativization and the Lexicon-Syntax Parameter

15:50 - 16:10		
coffee break

16:10 - 17:00		
Artemis Alexiadou
Stuttgart University
On the Morphosyntax of (Anti-)Causative Verbs

Wednesday, July 5

9:10 - 10:00		
Alessandro Zucchi
University of Milan
Event Descriptions and Classifier Predicates in Sign Languages

10:00 - 10:50		
Irit Meir
University of Haifa
The Emergence of Argument Structure in New Sign Languages

10:50 - 11:10		
coffee break

11:10 - 12:00		
Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Contact and Other Results	

12:00 - 12:50		
Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University
Constraints on Verb Complexity and VP Structure

12:50 - 14:10		
LUNCH

14:10 - 15:00		
Ivy Sichel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mapping Genitives and the Projection of Nonderived Nouns

15:00 - 15:50		
Idan Landau
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties		

15:50 - 16:10 		
coffee break

16:10 - 17:00		
Hagit Borer
University of Southern California
Locales

A Picturesque Walk in Jerusalem at Sunset

Thursday, July 

9:10 - 10:00		
Yoad Winter
The Technion
Scale Closure and Telicity

10:00 - 10:50 		
Susan Rothstein
Bar Ilan University
Counting and the Mass-Count Distinction

10:50 - 11:10		
coffee break

11:10 - 12:00		
Edit Doron and Nora Boneh
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arguments in Habitual Sentences

12:00 - 12:50		
Ariel Cohen
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Durative Adverbials, Iterativity and Scope

12:50 - 14:10		
LUNCH

14:10 - 15:00		
Christopher Piñon
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Modal Adverbs Again

15:00 - 15:50		
Melita Stavrou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Morphological Aspect and the Distribution of Cognate Object Constructions Across Languages

15:50 - 16:10		
coffee break

16:10 - 17:00		
Fred Landman
Tel Aviv University
Stativity Operators in 1066

Friday Morning, July 7

Wrap-up Discussion over Breakfast
Led by Anita Mittwoch
Followed by a tour of Old Jerusalem

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