19.2503, Confs: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Ling Theories/Israel

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Date: 13-Aug-2008
From: Yehuda Falk < msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il >
Subject: Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 24

 

	
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Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 24 
Short Title: IATL 24 

Date: 26-Oct-2008 - 27-Oct-2008 
Location: Jerusalem, Israel 
Contact: Yehuda Falk 
Contact Email: msyfalk at mscc.uji.ac.il 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/IATL24.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 

IATL 24
October 26-27, 2008
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sponsored by:
The Office of Research and Development, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/IATL24.html

Program

Sunday, October 26, 2008

10:00-10:20 
Gathering and refreshments

10:20-10:30 
Welcome and greetings

10:30-11:30 
Invited Speaker
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
TBA

11:30-12:10 
Galit Sassoon (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Vagueness Pertaining to Degree Constructions

12:10-12:25 
Coffee break

12:25-13:05 
Noam Faust (Université Paris 7)
The Template as a Morphology-Syntax Interface in Modern Hebrew

13:05-13:45 
Katharina Schuhmann (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Degrees of (Un)Grammaticality in Syllable Contact

13:45-15:10 
Lunch

15:10-15:50 
Ivy Sichel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
English NegDPs and Scopal Predicates

15:50-16:30 
Frederick Hoyt (University of Texas at Austin)
Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic

16:30-16:45 
Coffee break

16:45-17:25 
Gabi Danon (Bar Ilan University)
Grammatical Number in Numeral-Noun Constructions

17:25-18:25 
Invited Speaker
Richard Kayne (New York University)
TBA

Dinner

Monday, October 27, 2008

10:00-10:40 
Boban Arsenijevic (University of Amsterdam) and Berit Gehrke (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra)
Accusative Case in PPs 	 	 	
 	 	 	
10:40-11:20 
Beth Levin (Stanford University) and Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
Lexicalized Manner and Result are in Complementary Distribution 	 	 	
 			
11:20-11:35 
Coffee break
 			
11:35-12:15 
Aviad Eilam (University of Pennsylvania)
Beyond Regularization: The Role of Native Learners in Shaping Modern Hebrew
Relative Clauses
 		
12:15-12:55 
Martin Hackl, Jorie Koster-Moeller, and Andrea Gottstein (Pomona College)
Processing Opacity 	 		
 	 	
12:55-13:25 
Business Meeting

13:25-14:50 
Lunch
 			
14:50-15:30 
Lena Ibnbari (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Asymmetries in Russian Predicate Clefts

15:30-16:10 
Gabriela Bilbiie (Université Paris 7)
Reconstructing Ellipsis: the Case of Gapping in Romanian 	 		

16:10-16:25 
Coffee break
 			
16:25-17:05 
Chris Reintges (Université Paris 7)
INCREASING Morphological Complexity 	 		
 	 		
17:05-18:05 
Invited Speaker
Danny Fox (MIT)
Economy and Embedded Implicatures (joint work with Benjamin Spector, CNRS)
 	 	 	
Alternates

Jenny Birger
Tel Aviv University
L1 Acquisition of Unaccusatives: Reconsidering the ''Unergative Misanalysis
Hypothesis''

Pavel Braginsky
Bar Ilan University
On the Semantics of Prefixation in Russian: A Case Study of the Prefix ZA-

Yael Greenberg and Chen Matzri
Bar Ilan University
Davka: A Focus-Sensitivity-based Analysis

Michelle Sheehan
Newcastle University
Why Complements (Sometimes) Get Left Behind at PF







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