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: Syntax 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 (University of York) 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 Edinburgh) 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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