University of California, Santa Cruz WCCFL XXI West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics April 5-7, 2002

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

8:00 REGISTRATION OPENS foyer of Cowell Dining Hall

8:00- BREAKFAST 8:40 Cowell Courtyard

8:40- OPENING REMARKS 9:00 Cowell Dining Hall

SESSION A: Cowell Dining Hall Chair: Judith Aissen

9:00- Ken Hiraiwa (MIT) 9:30 Indeterminate-Agreement and Varieties of Raising

9:30- Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware) 10:00 Raising to Object and Improper Movement

10:00- Jeffrey Lidz (Northwestern University) and 10:30 Alexander Williams (University of Pennsylvania) Reflexivity and Resultatives 10:30- BREAK (tea and coffee) 10:45 Cowell Courtyard

SESSION B: Syntax Cowell Dining Hall Chair: Jim McCloskey

10:45- Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø) and 11:15 Gillian Ramchand (Oxford University) The Lexical Syntax and Lexical Semantics of the Verb- Particle Construction

11:15- Ida Toivonen (University of Rochester) 11:45 Verbal Particles and Results in Swedish and English

11:45- Lotus Goldberg (McGill University) 12:15 An Elucidation of Null Direct Object Structures in Modern Hebrew

12:15- Julie Anne Legate (MIT) 12:45 Functional Projections in Walpiri

12:45- LUNCH (on your own) 2:15

SESSION C: Phonology Cowell Dining Hall Chair: Junko Ito

2:15- Travis G. Bradley (UC Davis) 2:45 Gestural Timing and Derived Environment Effects in Norwegian Clusters

2:45- Jie Zhang (Harvard University) 3:15 Contour Tone Licensing and Moraicity

3:15- Maria Gouskova (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 3:45 Syllable Contact as a Relational Hierarchy 3:45- BREAK (refreshments) 4:00 Cowell Courtyard

SESSION D: Semantics Cowell Dining Hall Chair: Bill Ladusaw

4:00- Mark Gawron (San Diego State University) and 4:30 Andrew Kehler (UC San Diego) The Semantics of the Adjective Respective

4:30- Daphna Heller (Rutgers University) 5:00 Possession as a Lexical Relation: Evidence from the Hebrew Construct State

5:00- David Beaver (Stanford University) and Brady Clark 5:30 (Stanford University) The Proper Treatments of Focus Sensitivity

5:30- BREAK 5:45

5:45- INVITED SPEAKER 7:05 Cowell Dining Hall

Joe Pater (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Form and Substance in Phonological Acquisition

7:30 DINNER OUTING

SATURDAY, APRIL 6

8:30 REGISTRATION OPENS Cowell 131 (weather permitting; Cowell 133 otherwise) 8:30- BREAKFAST 9:00 Cowell Courtyard

SESSION E: Syntax SESSION F: Phonology Cowell 131 Cowell Conference Room Chair: Jorge Hankamer Chair: Caro Struijke

9:00- Shinichiro Ishihara (MIT) Robert Kennedy 9:30 Invisible but Audible (University of Arizona) Agreement: Wh-Question and A Stress-Based Approach Deaccenting in Japanese to Ponopean Reduplication

9:30- Jason Merchant (University of Nicole Nelson (UC Irvine) 10:00 Chicago) Deriving the "Prefixing" PF Output Constraints and Preference in Elliptical Repair in SAI Reduplication Comparatives

10:00- Ash Asudeh (Stanford Adam Albright (UCLA) 10:30 University and PARC) and A Restricted Model of UR Richard Crouch (PARC) Discovery: Evidence from Derivational Parallelism and Lakhota Ellipsis Parallelism

10:30- BREAK (tea and coffee) 10:45 Cowell Courtyard

SESSION G: Semantics SESSION H: Cowell 131 Morphology Chair: Bill Ladusaw Cowell Conference Room Chair: Armin Mester

10:45- Shin-Sook Kim (Universität Loren Allen Billings 11:15 Konstanz) (Providence University) Focus Matters: Two Types of and Intervention Effect Abigail Wildman Konopasky (Duke University) Morphology's Role in Ordering Verb-Adjacent Clitics

11:15- Elsi Kaiser (University of Roland Pfau (University 11:45 Pennsylvania) of Amsterdam) and Case Alternations, Disjunction Markus Steinbach and Questions (University of Mainz) Optimal Reciprocals in German Sign Language

11:45- Sei-Rang Oh (University of Graham Horwood 12:15 Connecticut) (Rutgers University) Decomposing One at a Time Relational Faithfulness and Conflicting Directionality

12:15- BUSINESS MEETING 12:30 Cowell Conference Room

12:30- LUNCH (on your own) 2:15

1:30 REGISTRATION MOVES AND RE-OPENS lobby of Classroom Unit

SESSION I: Syntax-Semantics Classroom Unit 1 Chair: Sandy Chung

2:15- Ora Matushansky (MIT and CNRS) 2:45 A Beauty of a Construction

2:45- David Adger () and 3:15 Gillian Ramchand (Oxford University) Predication and Equation

3:15- John Foreman (UCLA) 3:45 These Deictic Words Here 3:45- BREAK (refreshments) 4:00 lobby of Classroom Unit

SESSION J: Phonology Classroom Unit 1 Chair: Outi Bat-El

4:00- Bruce Tesar (Rutgers University) 4:30 Enforcing Grammatical Restrictiveness Can Help Resolve Structural Ambiguity

4:30- Nathan Sanders (UC Santa Cruz) 5:00 Dispersion in OT: Color Contrast in Middle Polish Nasal Vowels

5:00- Ji-yung Kim (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 5:30 Ablaut as Feature Coalescence

5:30- BREAK 5:45

5:45- INVITED SPEAKER 7:05 Classroom Unit 1

Caroline Heycock (University of ) title TBA

7:30- DINNER (cost included in registration; dinner served at 11:00 8:00) Cowell Dining Hall

SUNDAY, APRIL 7

8:30- BREAKFAST 9:00 lobby of Classroom Unit SESSION K: Phonology Classroom Unit 1 Chair: Geoffrey K. Pullum

9:00- Elliot Moreton (Johns Hopkins University) and 9:30 Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University) Typological Consequences of Local Constraint Conjunction

9:30- Evan Mellander (McGill University) 10:00 On Rhythmic Asymmetries in Metrical Groupings

10:00- Meghan Sumner (SUNY Stony Brook) 10:30 The Psycholinguistic Reality of Abstract Representations

10:30- BREAK (tea and coffee) 10:45 lobby of Classroom Unit

SESSION L: Syntax Classroom Unit 1 Chair: Jorge Hankamer

10:45- Jeffrey T. Runner (University of Rochester), 11:15 Rachel S. Sussman (University of Rochester), and Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Logophors in Possessed Picture Noun Phrases

11:15- Rose-Marie Dechaine (University of British Columbia) and 11:45 Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia and University of Vienna) Deriving Reflexives

11:45- BREAK 12:00

12:00- INVITED SPEAKER 1:20 Classroom Unit 1 Irene Heim (MIT) title TBA

ALTERNATES

Daniel Büring (UCLA) Attributes Stranded by A'-Movement

Dasha Kavitskaya (Yale University) Triggers and Alternations in Compensatory Lengthening

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