22.4138, Confs: Ling Theories, General Ling/Israel

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Subject: 22.4138, Confs: Ling Theories, General Ling/Israel

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Date: 22-Oct-2011
From: Nora Boneh [bonehn at mscc.huji.ac.il]
Subject: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:20:12
From: Nora Boneh [bonehn at mscc.huji.ac.il]
Subject: 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

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27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 
Short Title: IATL 27 

Date: 24-Oct-2011 - 25-Oct-2011 
Location: Haifa, Israel 
Contact: Nora Boneh 
Contact Email: bonehn at mscc.huji.ac.il 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The 27th Annual Meeting  
Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

Dates October 24-25 (Monday/Tuesday), 2011 
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Conference website: http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/27/

Invited Speaker:

Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca
Bencie Woll, University College London

IATL 27, The 27th Annual Meeting of The Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at The University of Haifa on October 24-25, 2011. 

Conference Program of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for
Theoretical Linguistics

Monday, October 24, 2011

9:00-10:00           
Registration and coffee

10:05-10:20       
Welcoming remarks

10:20-11:20 
~Invited Speaker~ 

Marina Nespor, University of Milano-Bicocca (work in collaboration with Alan Langus)
Different cognitive systems struggling for word order             

11:20-11:40         
Coffee break

11:40-12:20 
Gabi Danon, Bar Ilan University 
Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740094> 

12:20-13:00 
Lena Ibnbari, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Russian gerundive gaps as topic drop
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739949> 

13:00-14:30         
Lunch 

14:30-15:10 
Sascha Alexeyenko, University of Osnabrück
A Slow Typist When Tired: On Adverbial Modifiers Of Predicative Nominals
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740499> 

15:10-15:50 
Aviya Hacohen, Dana Kozlowski and Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Superlative Quantifiers as Speech Act Modifiers: Experimental Evidence from Hebrew
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739435> 

15:50-16:30 
Chen Gafni, Tel-Aviv University 
The role of Consonant Harmony in child language
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740127> 

16:30-16:50         
Coffee break

Special session: Sign Language

16:50-17:00
Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa
Introduction to the Sign Language sessions

17:00-17:40 
Vadim Kimmelman, University of Amsterdam
Doubling in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: a unified account
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=738049> 

17:40-18:20 
Christina Healy, Svetlana Dachkovsky and Wendy Sandler, Gallaudet
University, University of Haifa
The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739374> 

19:00                     
Conference Dinner

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Special session: Sign Language

9:30-10:30  
~Invited Speaker~ 
Bencie Woll, University College London
Using a linguistic savant
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=729777> 's learning of British Sign Language to explore linguistic theory

10:30-10:50         
Coffee break                                               

10:50-11:30 
Roland Pfau and Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam
Spatial adpositions in sign languages
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=738208> 

11:30-12:10 
Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach, University of Göttingen
Strategies of reference in German Sign Language fables
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740661>                      

12:10-12:30         
Business Meeting

12:30-13:40         
Lunch

13:40-14:20 
Yaron Mcnabb, University of Chicago

Hebrew Definite Marking as Post-Syntactic Local Dislocation
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=739743>  

14:20-15:00 
Dina Orenstein, Bar Ilan University
The Hebrew be-sax ha-kol: An exclusive analysis of an approximative reading

15:00-15:20         
Coffee break             

15:20-16:00 
Keren Kharizman and Yael Greenberg, Bar Ilan University
Bixlal: A general strengthening operator in Hebrew
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=740467>                              

16:00-16:40 
Micha Y. Breakstone, MIT/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inherent Evaluativity
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=723810> 

16:40-17:20 
Galit W. Sassoon, University of Amsterdam
A slightly modified economy principle: Stable properties have non-stable standards
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/review_for_paper.cgi?a=p015a7108653;paper=737507> 

17:30                     
Reception

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