SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2005
2:00-6:00 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
3:00-6:00 pm
WORKSHOP: PARSED CORPORA: WHAT, WHY AND HOW?
Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, and Beth Randall. (JMHH Room 250)


The aim of this workshop is to introduce researchers to the parsed corpora of historical English that are now available and to CorpusSearch, a computer program that allows users to search these corpora for lexical, morphological and syntactic information, as well as to code files of examples automatically for statistical analysis. The corpora to be discussed are the York Corpus of Old English and the Penn Corpora of Middle English and of Early Modern English. All three of these corpora are based on the Helsinki diachronic corpus of English but include more texts and larger text samples than the Helsinki corpus.

The following topics will be addressed:
1. Motivation: Why parsed corpora are useful. What parsed corpora allow us to find out about a language that simple text corpora would not.
2. Corpus structure: How corpora are annotated, and how the annotation facilitates searches.
3. Searching: How to use CorpusSearch. What the program can do, and how to get it to do what we want.
4. Corpus construction: A brief introduction to the process of corpus construction. Setting up annotation guidelines, using automated taggers and parsers, using software support for the process of correction and consistency checking.

Preview: Some information about corpora and corpus tools.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2005
9 am-4:15 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)

SESSION 1A: Syntax I
Chair: Marjorie Pak (JMHH Room 245)



SESSION 1B: Semantics/Pragmatics
Chair: Eleni Miltsakaki (JMHH Room 250)


9:15 am A minimalist analysis of first conjunct agreement in Standard Arabic [abstract]
Usama Soltan, University of Maryland, College Park
Modal subordination in Japanese: dynamics and evidentiality [abstract]
Eric Mccready & Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin
9:40 am On egin: do-support in Basque [abstract]
Bill Haddican, NYU
The perfect in context: a corpus study [abstract]
Atsuko Nishiyama & Jean-Pierre Koenig, University at Buffalo, SUNY
10:05 am Sluicing and focus movement in wh-in-situ languages [abstract]
Chyan-an Arthur Wang, NYU & Hsiao-hung Iris Wu, MIT
Comparative superlatives in relative clauses [abstract]
David Schueler, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30 am How is reconstruction constrained? [abstract]
Masakazu Kuno, Harvard University
Plural indefinites and unexpected pair-list readings [abstract]
Robert Fiorentino, University of Maryland, College Park
10:55 am BREAK

SESSION 2A: Computational Linguistics
Chair: Na-Rae Han (JMHH Room 245)


SESSION 2B: Morphology/Syntax
Chair: Alexander Williams (JMHH Room 250)

11:10 am Pregroup grammars are Turing equivalent [abstract]
Greg Kobele & Marcus Kracht, University of California, Los Angeles
LF-Incorporation is not plausible: syntactic category, case marking and nonsententials [abstract]
Masaaki Kamiya, Hamilton College
11:35 am Unsupervised morphology induction for part-of-speech tagging [abstract]
Damir Cavar, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues & Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana University
There is no Absolutive case [abstract]
Julie Anne Legate, University of Delaware
noon Enriching the syntactic annotation of Korean treebanks for higher-level processing [abstract]
Sun-hee Lee, Ohio State University & Seok Bae Jang, Georgetown University
Post-syntactic word-formation in Japanese [abstract]
Yukiko Asano, SUNY at Stony Brook
12:25 pm On the productivity of linguistic processes [abstract]
Charles Yang, Yale University
12:50 pm LUNCH:
For those who wish to stay on campus, there are two Au Bon Pain cafes located in JMHH, and a variety of nearby restaurants and food venues.

SESSION 3A: Syntax/Semantics Interface
Chair: Sophia Malamud (JMHH Room 245)


SESSION 3B: Phonetics/Phonology
Chair: John Bell (JMHH Room 250)

2:45 pm Composite of two levels: the case of obstruent devoicing in Pennsylvania Dutchified English [abstract]
Vicki Michael Anderson, Indiana University
3:10 pm Local and flexible distributivity and Korean non-nominal plural marker tul [abstract]
Chonghyuck Kim, University of Delaware
How do they do it? The difference between singing and speaking in female altos [abstract]
Damien Hall, University of Pennsylvania
3:35 pm Morphological hi-passives and argument alternations in Korean [abstract]
Minjeong Son, University of Delaware
Is Ash-tensing driven by acoustics or articulation? An ultrasound study [abstract]
Jennifer Nycz & Paul De Decker, NYU
4:00 pm Measure phrases and the -ka/-lul alternation in Korean [abstract]
Chang-yong Sim, University of Delaware
Prosodic phrasing in Three German standard varieties [abstract]
Christiane Ulbrich, McGill University
4:25 pm BREAK
5:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: On Gerunds and the Theory of Categories [abstract]
Mark Baker, Rutgers University (JMHH Room F85)

8:30 pm PARTY
at the Carriage House, 3907 Spruce St.


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2005
9:45 am-3 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)

SESSION 1A: Syntax II
Chair: Augustin Speyer (JMHH Room 245)



SESSION 1B: Phonology
Chair: Alan Lee (JMHH Room 250)


10:15 am Verbal repetition and the copy theory of movement [abstract]
Jason Kandybowicz, University of California, Los Angeles
Bracketing and cyclicity in Romanian stress [abstract]
Michael L. Friesner, University of Pennsylvania
10:40 am Phase and convergence: a preliminary study [abstract]
Miki Obata, University of Tsukuba/University of Maryland, College Park
The Accent Projection Principle: why the hell not? [abstract]
Jon Sprouse, University of Maryland
11:05 am Phases, strong islands, and computational nesting [abstract]
Valentina Bianchi & Cristiano Chesi, University of Siena
Vowel length and coda cluster interactions in Misantla Totonac [abstract]
Aaron F. Kaplan, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:30 am Output-to-output derivation revisited [abstract]
Hye Jin Han, University of Chicago
11:55 am LUNCH (There are two Au Bon Pain cafes located in JMHH, and a variety of nearby restaurants and food venues.)

SESSION 2A: Historical Syntax
Chair: Suzanne Wagner (JMHH Room 245)


SESSION 2B: Sociolinguistics
Chair: Ron Kim (JMHH Room 250)

1:15 pm Irrealis and the rise of have in the history of English [abstract]
Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou, Universität Stuttgart
A rapid and anonymous study of r-vocalization in an r-pronouncing city [abstract]
Rebecca Mead, Michael Ellis & Cynthia Groff, University of Pennsylvania
1:40 pm Infinitive marking with for: a diachronic account [abstract]
Marjorie Pak, University of Pennsylvania
Reported speech and identity in Brazilian accounts of discrimination [abstract]
Mercia Santana Flannery, Georgetown University
2:05 pm Pronoun loss as a form of deflection [abstract]
Suzanne Aalberse, University of Amsterdam
2:30 pm End of PLC 29