SCHEDULE OF EVENTS |
FRIDAY, FEB. 21 | ||
SESSION 1: Historical Syntax and Morphology (Chair: Tony Kroch) | ||
3:30 pm |
Clitic-placement in the History of Portuguese and the Syntax-Phonology Interface |
Charlotte Galves |
3:55 pm |
On the pronominal inflection of the Germanic strong adjective |
Thomas McFadden |
4:20 pm |
Break | |
SESSION 2: Historical Syntax of English (Chair: Tom McFadden) | ||
4:35 pm |
Topicalization and the Trochaic Requirement |
Augustin Speyer |
5:00 pm |
The Discourse Function of Topics in Late Middle English and Early Modern English and their Relationship to Subject-Verb Inversion |
Laura Whitton |
5:25 pm |
The effect of unaccusativity in the VS order in English |
Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante | SATURDAY, FEB. 22 |
SESSION 1: Sociolinguistics (Chair: Uri Horesh) | ||
9:30 am |
When phonology goes haywire in dying languages: The role of external and internal factors in recent developments in Texas German |
Hans C. Boas; Karen Ewing; Cheryl Heckmann; Jana Thompson |
9:55 am |
From content to grammar: A reanalysis of Afro-Portuguese Creole’s verbs of speaking |
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino |
10:20 am |
Lagged Co-occurrence Analysis Reveals Gender Differences of Co-occurence Patterns in Personal Narratives |
Shuki Cohen |
10:45 am |
The Impact of Swiss German on the Grammar of a Western Yiddish dialect. A Case Study in Language Contact |
Jurg Fleischer |
11:10 am |
Break | |
SESSION 2: Mathematical Linguistics (Chair: Tsan-Kuang Lee) | ||
11:25 am |
Too Many Languages Satisfy Ogden’s Lemma |
Marcus Kracht |
11:50 am |
Probabilistic model-theoretic semantics for ‘want’ |
Dmitry Levinson |
12:15 pm |
Lunch | |
SESSION 3: Syntax (Chair: Alexander Williams) | ||
1:30 pm |
Multiple Superiority Effects in Basque |
Youngmi Jeong |
1:55 pm |
Topic and Focus in Polish - A Preliminary Study |
Karolina Owczarzak |
2:20 pm |
The Structure of Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese |
Perng Wang Adams |
2:45 pm |
Break | |
SPECIAL SESSION IN SEMANTICS (Chair: Sophia Malamud) | ||
3:00 pm |
In the complement of ‘deny’ |
Lucia Tovena |
3:25 pm |
ACD and Discourse Relations |
Maribel Romero |
3:50 pm |
Who gives a damn about the environment? - Minimizers in Questions |
Klaus Abels |
4:15 pm |
Break | |
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Introduction: Robin Clark) | ||
4:30-5:30 pm |
A Compositional Characterization of the Definiteness Effect in Existential-There Ss (html) |
Edward Keenan |
8:00 pm |
PARTY! | |
SUNDAY, FEB. 23 | ||
PANEL: Goffman’s Legacy and Future Study of Language Interaction | ||
10:00 am |
Stigma, Frame and Footing: Women Negotiating Military Roles |
Edie Disler |
10:15 am |
Two approaches to negotiating positions in interaction-- Goffman's (1981) Footing and Davies and Harre's (1999) Positioning theory |
Diana Marinova |
10:30 am |
Frame Analysis and Brazilian Narratives of Social Discrimination |
Mercia Santana Flannery |
10:45 am |
Break | |
11:00 am |
Using Goffman in Discourse Analysis |
Margaret Toye |
11:15 am |
Deference, Demeanor, and Codeswitching in Thai and Lao |
Peter Vail |
11:30 am |
Non-verbal Navigational Tools of Turn-Taking |
Laura Wright |
11:45 am |
Discussion |
Led by: Deborah Schiffrin (schiffrd@georgetown.edu) |
SESSION 1: Language Acquisition I (Chair: Elsi Kaiser) | ||
10:25 am |
Context and scalar inference |
Anna Papafragou |
10:50 am |
Child Production of Quechua Relative Clauses |
Ellen Courtney |
11:15 am |
The acquisition of perfective and imperfective passive constructions in Russian |
Maria Babyonyshev;
Dina Brun |
11:40 am |
Break | |
SESSION 2: Language Acquisition II (Chair: Anna Papafragou) | ||
11:55 am |
Ditransitives and acquisition |
Kieran Snyder |
12:20 pm |
Relative Clause Attachment Preferences in Second Language Learners’ Parsing Performance |
Guillermo A. Rodríguez |
12:45 pm |
Lunch | |
SESSION 2: Phonology (Chair: Gene Buckley) | ||
2:00 pm |
Gestural coordination and the distribution of English ‘geminates’ |
Stefan Benus;
Adamantios Gafos
Iris Smorodinsky
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2:25 pm |
Linearizing Nested and Overlapping Precedence in Multiple Reduplication |
Andrew Nevins;
Justin Fitzpatrick |
2:50 pm |
Epenthesis and Misalignment: Vowel-initial Stems in Bantu Consonant Mutation |
Long Peng |
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