SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008
2:00-6:30 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)

Special Session: Prosody and Its Interfaces
Chair: Catherine Lai (JMHH 340)


3:00 pm Opening Remarks
3:15 pm Accounting for 'free Wackernagel elements': weakness without dependency [abstract]
Daniel Kaufman, Cornell University
3:40 pm An interface approach to French wh-questions [abstract]
Fatima Hamlaoui & Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa
4:05 pm BREAK
4:25 pm Syntactic vs. Intonational Focus Marking in Papiamentu [abstract]
Tara Sanchez,Vassar College
4:50 pm Relativization, intonational phrases, and the left periphery of NP and CP [abstract]
Simona Herdan, University of Connecticut
5:15-6pm
Invited Speaker
Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware
Intervention Effects in Focus
[abstract]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008
9 am-4:15 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
8:30 am BREAKFAST

SESSION 1A: Syntax
Chair: Marjorie Pak (JMHH Room 340)



SESSION 1B: Phonetics/Phonology
Chair: Keelan Evanini (JMHH Room 345)


9:15 am Towards a finer-grained theory of Italian non-finite clausal architecture [abstract]
Paola Benincá & Christina Tortora, University of Padua & CUNY (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center)
Phonetic and Phonological Scansion in Loanword Adaptation [abstract]
Charles B. Chang, University of California, Berkeley
9:40 am Selectional Asymmetries between CP and DP Suggest that the DP Hypothesis is Wrong [abstract]
Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware
L2 Nonword Recognition and the Phonotactic Constraints [abstract]
Anna Mikhaylova, University of South Carolina
10:05 am Tough-Movement and Nominalized Infinitives in French [abstract]
Marc Authier & Lisa Reed The Pennsylvania State University
A Tale of Two Fricatives: Consonantal Contrast in Heritage Speakers of Mandarin [abstract]
Charles B. Chang, Erin Haynes, Russell Rhodes, & Yao Yao, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 am Italian Reinforcers: DP-internal and left peripheral [abstract]
Marco Nicolis, Georgetown University
Assessing Similarity Avoidance in the Evaluation of PIE Root Structure Constraints [abstract]
Adam Cooper, Cornell University
10:55 am BREAK

SESSION 2A: Syntax/Semantics
Chair: Tatjana Scheffler (JMHH Room 340)


SESSION 2B: Phonology
Chair: Aaron Dinkin (JMHH Room 345)

11:10 am What Differentiates Two Japanese Exhaustive Focus Particles? [abstract]
Sachie Kotani, University of Delaware
A Stratal OT Approach to a Noun-Verb Asymmetry with respect to Opacity in Korean [abstract]
Jiwon Yun, Cornell University
11:35 am Logophoricity vs. Indexical shifting of person pronouns in Korean [abstract]
Hyuna B. Kim, University of Southern California
Goldilocks meets the subset problem: Evaluating Error-Driven Constraint Demotion for OT language acquisition [abstract]
Joshua Tauberer, University of Pennsylvania
noon Long-Distance Scrambling, VP-Ellipsis and Scope Economy in Russian [abstract]
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, SUNY, Stony Brook
Sandhi Sans Derivation: Third Tone Patterns in Mandarin Chinese [abstract] Vera Lee-Schoenfeld & Jason Kandybowicz, Swarthmore College
12:25 pm Adverbs of quantity: Entities of different kinds [abstract]
Aniko Csirmaz, University of Utah
The Syllable Mirage [abstract]
Bridget Samuels, Harvard University
12:50 pm LUNCH: Eat at Philadelphia's historic Reading Terminal Market!
Don't miss a chance to see some of Philly's downtown and grab a delicious bite to eat at the same time. If you're interested, be ready to leave at 1 pm at the JMHH Locust Walk entrance. Make sure you have two SEPTA tokens (available at the registration desk) or $4 in dollar bills.
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
Chair: Joan Chen-Main (JMHH Room 340)


SESSION 3B: Semantics
Chair: Lance Nathan (JMHH Room 345)

2:45 pm Historical Developments in the Marking of English Relative Clauses [abstract]
Ariel Diertani, University of Pennsylvania
Evidentiality and Source Monitoring in Turkish [abstract]
Ozge Ozturk & Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware
3:10 pm Affix Hopping and Do-Support: Evidence from Old Irish [abstract]
Glenda Newton, University of Cambridge
Evidentiality and German Attitude Verbs [abstract]
Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania
3:35 pm Three Types of Gender Markedness in Predicative Nouns [abstract]
Cynthia Zocca, University of Connecticut
The Romanian presumptive and its evidential nature [abstract]
Monica Irimia, University of Toronto
4:00 pm Move or Agree? On Partial Control and Parasitic PC Effects [abstract]
Anna Snarska, Adam Mickieiwcz University
On Deontic Modality in Spanish [abstract]
Maria Biezma, University of Massachusetts Amherst
4:25 pm RECEPTION (JMHH MBA Lounge)
6:00pm pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chamorro possessives and the syntax-semantics of subjects [abstract]
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz (JMHH Room G06)

9:00 pm PARTY! (Information and directions will be included in the final program.)


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008
9:45 am-3 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
9:45 am BREAKFAST

SESSION 4A: Syntax
Chair: Aviad Eilam (JMHH Room 340)


SESSION 4B: Phonetics
Chair: Chandan Narayan (JMHH Room 345)

10:15 am Quantifier Induced Barriers and Wh-movement [abstract]
Shiti Malhotra, University of Maryland, College Park
An Acoustic Analysis of Svarabhakti Vowels in Spanish /rC/ Clusters [abstract]
Benjamin Schmeiser Illinois State University
10:40 am When 'What' Means 'Why': On Accusative Wh-adjuncts in Japanese [abstract]
Chizuru Nakao & Miki Obata, University of Maryland, College Park & University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Length as a contrastive feature in Vietnamese vowels [abstract]
Giang Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 pm Double modal syntactic patterns as single modal interactions [abstract]
Minta Elsman & Stanley Dubinsky, University of South Carolina
Naïve Categorization of American English Vowels [abstract]
Douglas S. Bigham, University of Texas at Austin
11:30 pm Linguistic Variation and Lexical Parameters: The Case of Directed Motion [abstract]
Minjeong Son, CASTL, University of Tromsø
Obstruent Nasals Exist! [abstract]
Karthik Durvasula, University of Delaware
11:55 am BREAK

SESSION 5: Syntax
Chair: Joel Wallenberg (JMHH Room 340)


12:10 pm Case, Agreement, Pro-drop and Extraction: Towards a Unification [abstract]
Maia Duguine, EHU-U.Basque Country & U. Nantes
12:35 pm Nominalization and Predicate-Fronting: Two Sources of Ergativity [abstract]
Jessica Coon & Andrés Salanova, MIT & U. Ottawa
1:00 pm Analyzing ti-type and ket-type pseudoclefts in Ilokano [abstract]
Jeremy Rafal, City University of New York--The Graduate Center
1:25 pm Possessor Extraction in Mandarin Chinese [abstract]
Yu-Yin Hsu, Indiana University Bloomington
1:50 am END OF PLC 32