20.3521, Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Cognitive Science/USA

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Subject: 20.3521, Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Cognitive Science/USA

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Date: 17-Oct-2009
From: Tony Wright < tonywright at mail.utexas.edu >
Subject: Texas Linguistics Society 12th Annual Meeting

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:52:23
From: Tony Wright [tonywright at mail.utexas.edu]
Subject: Texas Linguistics Society 12th Annual Meeting

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Texas Linguistics Society 12th Annual Meeting 
Short Title: TLS XII 

Date: 13-Nov-2009 - 15-Nov-2009 
Location: Austin, Texas, USA 
Contact: Tony Wright 
Contact Email: tonywright at mail.utexas.edu 
Meeting URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/tls2009/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

TLS XII, the 12th annual meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society, will take place November 13-15, 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin. The meeting will consist of a general session, one parasession described below, and The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith.

General Session:

The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, literature, neuroscience, and psychology.

Keynote Speaker: 

Laurence Horn, Yale University
Colin Bannard, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/University of Texas at Austin

Parasession:

'Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Based on Naturally Occurring Data, Elicitation, and Experimentation'

In all scientific disciplines, theory requires data for validation (or refutation) of hypotheses, and data requires theory for interpretation. In linguistics, 'data' has often been synonymous with `intuitions' or 'introspections.' Yet, there is much to gain by joining forces between theoretical fields of research and the tools of experimental psycholinguistics. 

Keynote Speaker: 

Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California

The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith:  

This workshop continues in the tradition of the previous workshops organized by Professor Smith, and will focus on two areas of research in which she did much pioneering work: the semantics of temporal location, tense, and aspect, and research into modes of discourse. Work from diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives which addresses syntactic, semantic, interface, pragmatic and discourse-level issues relating to temporal location, tense, aspectual categories, Aktionsart and other related areas in natural language will be featured. Talks for this workshop are by invitation, but abstracts dealing with this conference theme are welcome for the general session.

Invited Speakers:

Nicholas Asher, UT Austin and IRIT-CNRS
Jason Baldridge, UT Austin
David Beaver, UT Austin
Cleo Condoravdi, Xerox PARC and Stanford
Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC and Stanford
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Mark Steedman, The University of Edinburgh
Bonnie Webber, The University of Edinburgh
Annie Zaenen, Xerox PARC and Stanford 

Friday, Nov. 13, 2009

09:00 - 11:15    
Morning General Session

09:00 - 09:30 	
Clitic vs. Agreement in Hungarian, Elizabeth Coppock & Stephen Wechsler

09:30 - 10:00 	
Effects of Focus Type and Argument Length on the Dative Alternation, Mary Byram, Elsi Kaiser & Maria Zubizarreta

10:00 - 10:15 	
Break

10:15 - 10:45 	
Morphological Case and Interpretation, Aniko Csirmaz

10:45 - 11:15 	
Persian Number Agreement, Hyun Jong Hahm

09:00 - 11:15    
Morning Parallel Session

09:00 - 09:30 	
''Both are close'': Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Word Meaning, Patricia Amaral

09:30 - 10:00 	
An Experimental Approach to Verb Phrase Ellipsis, Laura Kertz

10:00 - 10:15 	
Break	

10:15 - 10:45 	
Licensing German Multiple Fronting in Context, Philippa Cook & Felix Bildauer

10:45 - 11:15 	
The Effect of NP Type on the Processing of French Focus Constructions, Robert Reichle & Emilie Destruel

11:30 - 12:30    
Parallel Session Keynote Speaker: Elsi Kaiser (abstract)

12:30 - 13:30    
Lunch break

13:30 - 17:00   
Afternoon General Session

13:30 - 14:00 	
Reduplication Revised: Reduplication in Sign Languages, Francesca Forza

14:00 - 14:30 	
The Effect of Frequency on the Loss of Split-Intransitivity in Old Spanish, Christopher Sams

14:30 - 14:45 	
Break

14:45 - 15:15 	
White Performances of a ''Hip Hop Accent'', Qiuana Lopez

15:15 - 15:45 	
How Might Metalinguistic Negation Work?, Andy Rogers

15:45 - 16:00 	
Break

16:00 - 16:30 	
Classifiers and Mixed Content, Eric McCready

16:30 - 17:00 	
Focus on Conditional and Quantificational Coordination, Ezra Keshet

13:30 - 15:15   
Afternoon Parallel Session

13:30 - 14:00 	
The De Se Theory of Indexicals: Convergent Evidence from Philosophy, Psychology, and Typology, Stephen Wechsler

14:00 - 14:30 	
Processing (Non-)Compositional Expressions: Context Effects, Edward Holsinger, Elsi Kaiser

14:30 - 14:45 	
Break

14:45 - 15:15 	
A Pragmatic Resolution of a Semantic Conflict, Hyuna Kim

17:15 - 18:15    
General Session Keynote Speaker: Laurence Horn (abstract)

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

09:00 - 10:00   
General Session Keynote Speaker: Colin Bannard

10:15 - 12:30   
Morning General Session

10:15 - 10:45 	
Chinese Conditionals Revisited: On Modal Implication and Pronoun Distributions, Yahui Anita Huang

10:45 - 11:15 	
Natural Logic, de Morgan Inferences, and Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic, Frederick Hoyt

11:15 - 11:30 	
Break

11:30 - 12:00 	
Situation entities and genre distinctions in the Penn Discourse TreeBank, Alexis Palmer & Caroline Sporleder

12:00 - 12:30 	
The Contrastive Topic: Not Simply Contrastive + Topic, Michihiko Kawamura

12:30 - 13:30   
Lunch break

13:30 - 17:45   
The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith

13:30 - 14:30 	
James Pustejovsky

14:30 - 15:30 	
Lauri Karttunnen

15:45 - 16:45 	
Annie Zaenen (abstract)

16:45 - 17:45 	
Chung-chieh Shan (abstract)

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009

09:00 - 12:15   
The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith

09:00 - 10:00 	
Cleo Condoravdi

10:00 - 11:00 	
Mats Rooth

11:15 - 12:15 	
Dorit Abusch

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