Saturday, February 22nd
Syntax
chair : Tony Kroch
· 9.00-9.25
Featural Cyclicity and (Anti-)Superiority. Norvin Richards, MIT
· 9.25-9.50
South Slavic Clitic Placement is Still Syntactic. Steven Franks, Indiana University/University of Connecticut
· 9.50-10.00 Break
Syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics
chair: Filippo Beghelli
· 10.00-10.25
Permission Sentences in Dynamic Semantics. Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, UCLA
· 10.25-10.50
A Model-Theoretic Approach to A-not-A Questions in Chinese. Jianxin Wu, University of Maryland
· 10.50-11.00 Break
Semantics
chair: Robin Clark
· 11.00-11.25
Subcategorization frames: On their semantics and their relationships to verb meanings. Edward T. Kako, University of Pennsylvania
· 11.25-11.50
Extraction, Gradedness, and Optimality. Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
· 11.50-1.00 Lunch break
· 1.00-1.30
Talk by invited speaker Rolf Noyer, University of Pennsylvania
Morpho-phonology
chair: Rolf Noyer
· 1.30-1.55
Disyllabic Requirement in Swahili Morphology. Jae-Ick Park, Indiana University
· 1.55-2.20
Explaining Kashaya Infixation. Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
· 2.20-2.35 Coffee break
Morpho-syntax
chair: Heidi Harley
· 2.35-3.00
On 'Subjective' and 'Objective' agreement in Hungarian. Huba Bartos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
· 3.00-3.25
Against Overt Particle Incorporation. Jochen Zeller,Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
· 3.25-3.50
Polarity Checking in Spanish, French, and English. Dee Cain and Renee J. O'Brien, Georgetown
· 3.40-4.05 Coffee break
Sociolinguistics of auxiliary selection
chair: Naomi Nagy
· 4.05-4.30
Present Tense Auxiliary and Copula Choice in Banarsi Bhojpuri. Susan Das, University of Pennsylvania
· 4.30-4.55
A Sociolinguistic Study of Verb Morphology in Montreal French: Reanalyzing the Alternation between 'avoir' and 'être'. Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania and Pierrette Thibault, Université de Montreal
· 4.55-5.15 Coffee break
· 5:15- 6:30 talk by invited speaker Alec Marantz, MIT
Sunday, February 23rd
Pragmatics
chair: Mark Liberman
· 9.30-9.55
Japanese sentence-final particles -yo- and -ne-: An alternative to scalar analyses. Yuriko Suzuki Kose, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
· 9.55-10.20
The Pragmatics of Wh-Question Intonation in English. Christine Bartels, University of Oregon
· 10.20-10.45
'Spoken Chant' intonation in French. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, University of Paris III/University of Pennsylvania
· 10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
Syntax and semantics of aspect
chair: Roumi Izvorski
· 11.00-11.25
Aspectual Shifting in the Perfect and Progressive. Laura Wagner, University of Pennsylvania
· 11.25-11.50
The Representation of Present Perfect Types. Gerhard Brugger, UCLA/University of Vienna
· 11.50-12.15
Sui Generis Genericity. Hana Filip and Gregory Carlson, University of Rochester
· 12.15-1.15 Lunch break
Workshop: Preparing data for a multivariate analysis : new computer tools
(Williams Hall, phonetics laboratory)
David Boas (Tufts University), Naomi Nagy (University of New Hampshire) and Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Pennsylvania)
Sociolinguistics
chair: Charles Boberg
· 1.15-1.40
Voah mei daett sei deitsh: Developments in the vowel system of Pennsylvania German. David Bowie, University of Pennsylvania
· 1.40-2.05
Duration of Onset Consonants in Gay Male Stereotyped Speech. Sean Crist, University of Pennsylvania
· 2.05-2.30
Do I sound Asian to you?: Linguistic markers of Asian American Identity. David B. Hanna, University of Pennsylvania
· 2.30-2.45 Coffee break
Phonology
chair: Gene Buckley
· 2.45-3.10
· 3.10-3.35
Trisyllabic Shortening: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis. Paula Fikkert, University of Konstanz
· 3.35-4.00
Resyllabification. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania