SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004
2:30-5:30 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
SESSION 1: Syntax I Chair: Caroline Heycock (JMHH Room 250)
3:00 pm Antipassive, clefting, and specificity [abstract] | [handout]
Edith Aldridge, SUNY, Stony Brook
3:25 pm Something invisible in English [abstract]
Thomas Leu, NYU
3:50 pm A-movement locality in applicative constructions [abstract]
Ju-eun Lee, Harvard University
4:15 pm BREAK
SESSION 2: Phonology I Chair: John Bell (JMHH Room 250)
4:30 pm Deriving coda conditions through the interaction of markedness constraints [abstract] | [handout]
Laurie Woods, New York University
4:55 pm Tonal chain-shifts as anti-neutralization-induced tone sandhi [abstract]
Feng-fan Hsieh, MIT


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2004
9 am-4:15 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
SESSION 1A: Semantics
Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi (JMHH Room 245)
SESSION 1B: Language Acquisition
Chair: Sudha Arunachalam (JMHH Room 250)
9:15 am Arbitrariness: a definite account [abstract]
Sophia Malamud, University of Pennsylvania
9:40 am The logical structure of sentential negation and polarity sensitivity [abstract]
Yasuhiro Sasahira, University of Wisconsin 		Resumptive pronouns as last resort: implications for language acquisition [abstract]
Elaine Grolla, University of Connecticut
10:05 am Futurate meanings [abstract]
Bridget Copley, USC 		Absence of do-support in early English: parameter resetting or deficient grammars? [abstract]
Graciela Tesan & Rosalind Thornton, University of Maryland
10:30 am Event structure of the inalienable possession in Korean [abstract]
Satoshi Tomioka & Chang-Yong Sim, University of Delaware 		What language change modeling can do for acquisition theory [abstract]
Lisa Pearl, University of Maryland
10:55 am BREAK
SESSION 2A: Syntax II
Chair: Alexander Williams (JMHH Room 245)
SESSION 2B: Discourse/Pragmatics I
Chair: Rashmi Prasad (JMHH Room 250)
11:10 am The case of experiencers: receiving, holding, doing [abstract]
Vita G. Markman, Rutgers University 		The multi-functions and prosody of dui bu dui in Mandarin conversation [abstract]
Chun-mei Chen, The University of Texas at Austin
11:35 am To in two places and the dative alternation [abstract] | [handout]
Lisa Levinson, NYU 		Non-canonical agent-marking in Eastern Khanty: functional-pragmatic perspective [abstract]
Andrei Filtchenko, Rice University
noon Two types of multiple nominative constructions [abstract] | [handout]
Reiko Vermeulen, UCL / Utrecht 		What the referential properties of the Estonian pronoun tema can tell us about the role of contrast in pronoun interpretation [abstract]
Elsi Kaiser, University of Rochester
12:25 pm An analysis of Romance 'ethic' datives [abstract]
John Charles Smith, University of Oxford (St Catherine's College)
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: Phonology II
Chair: Alan Lee (JMHH Room 245)
SESSION 3B: Discourse/Pragmatics II
Chair: Anna Papafragou (JMHH Room 250)
2:15 pm The Greek connective ke: towards a unitary radical pragmatic account [abstract]
Stavroula Tsiplakou, University of Cyprus
2:40 pm Loanword accentuation in Japanese [abstract] | [handout]
Masahiko Mutsukawa, Michigan State University 		A centering analysis of relative clauses in English and Greek [abstract]
Eleni Miltsakaki, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 pm Simulating the evolution of patterns in lexical contrast [abstract]
Andrew Wedel, University of Arizona 		Vorfeldbesetzung and Centering Theory in German [abstract]
Augustin Speyer, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 pm Metrical structure and variable closed syllable weight in Capanahua [abstract]
José Elías-Ulloa, Rutgers University
3:55 pm BREAK
4:15 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Structure-preserving sound change: how and why? [abstract]
Juliette Blevins, University of California, Berkeley (JMHH Room F85)
8:00 pm PARTY (Information and directions will be included in the final program.)


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2004
9:45 am-3 pm REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Cafe)
SESSION 1: Variation, Contact and Change Chair: Daniel Johnson (JMHH Room 250)
10:15 am The Englishization of Chinese in computer-mediated communication [abstract]
Liwei Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:40 am Phonological adaptation of Spanish loanwords in Northern Moroccan Arabic [abstract]
Lotfi Sayahi, University at Albany, SUNY
11:05 am From causality to concessivity: the case of just because [abstract]
Martin Hilpert, Rice University
11:30 am A story of the American -self: a case study in morphological variation [abstract]
Joel C. Wallenberg, University of Pennsylvania
11:55 am LUNCH (There are two Au Bon Pain cafes located in JMHH, and a variety of nearby restaurants and food venues.)
SESSION 2: Syntax III Chair: Nianwen Xue (JMHH Room 250)
1:15 pm Pseudo-incorporation of agents [abstract]
Balkiz Ozturk, Harvard University
1:40 pm A (remnant) raising analysis of English comparatives [abstract]
Scott Fults, University of Maryland
2:05 pm The distribution of subjects in non-finite clauses: an account without Case [abstract] | [handout]
Tom McFadden, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 pm VP-preposing and relative scope [abstract]
Laura Rimell & Thomas Leu, NYU