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Abstracts

invited talks

Gregory N. Carlson
Weak definite NPs
Lisa Cheng
Decomposing Bantu Relatives
Michael J. Terry
A Present Perfect Puzzle for African-American English
Bruce Tesar
Learning from Paradigmatic Information

special sessions
semantics of under-represented languages

Rahul Balusu
Distributive Reduplication in Telugu
Claire Bowern
Correlates of nonconfigurationality
Lisa Matthewson
Presuppositions and Cross-Linguistic Variation

topics at the morphology-phonology interface

Paula Fikkert, Claartje Levelt and Tania Zamuner
Learning underlying forms: Evidence from child perception and production
Melissa Frazier
Output-Output Faithfulness to Moraic Structure: Evidence from New Phenomenon in American English
Curt Rice
Same problem, different solutions: Gaps and repairs at the morphology-phonology interface

talks by area
phonology

Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara
Phonetic Correlates of Second Occurence Focus
Ruth Kramer
Root and Pattern Morphology in Coptic: Evidence for the Root
Ric Morris
The optimal leveling of Latin imparisyllabic nouns
Jennifer L. Smith
Output-Output Correspondence vs. Cyclic OT: Beyond Morphological Derivation
Elizabeth Zsiga, Maria Gouskova, and One Tlale
On the status of voiced obstruents in Tswana: Against *ND

semantics

Pranav Anand
Long-distance Indexicals
Tania Ionin, Ora Matushansky and E.G. Ruys
Parts of Speech: a unified semantics for partitives
Nathan Klinedinst
Bargains, Scales and ‘Only’
Paula Menéndez-Benito
Exclusive Choices
Yasuhiro Sasahira
On the Stativity of Negation in Japanese
Eytan Zweig
The implications of dependent plural readings

syntax / semantics

Peter Hallman
A Categorical Distinction between Stative and Eventive Verbs
Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Florian Schäfer
The fine structure of (anti-)causatives
Jon Nissenbaum
States, events and VP structure: evidence from purposive adjuncts

syntax

David Adger and Gillian Ramchand
Psych nouns and the Structure of Predication
Balázs Surányi
Hungarian as a Japanese-type scrambling language
Justin Fitzpatrick
Two Types of Floating Quantifiers and their A/A-bar Properties
Brent Henderson
The Case for Concord: Multiple Agreement in Bantu
Mayumi Hosono
When is Object Shift prevented?
Tomoko Kawamura
Focal analysis of NPI connectivity and movement of negation
Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith
Nonconstituent Clefting in Japanese
Meredith Larson
The Thais that Bind: Apparent Principle C Violations in Thai
Julie Anne Legate
Two Types of Nominal Split
Jon Sprouse
Antecedent Contained Deletion and Movement Reconsidered
Maziar Toosarvandani
Leaving v Behind: Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates
Masaya Yoshida
Sometimes, Smaller is Better: Gapping, Sluicing and Semantic Identity

posters

Ruixi Ai
Topic-comment Structure, Focus Movement and Gapping Formation
Michael Barrie
Control as Movement and Cyclic Linearization
Seth Cable
"Rule Replacement" in Lingit: The Importance of Morphosyntax to Morphophonology
Kyungsook Chung
Toward an Integrated Theory of the Perfect and the Indirect Evidential
Andries W. Coetzee
Grammar is both categorical and gradient
Amy Rose Deal
Transitivity mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface: disappearing object markers in Nez Perce
Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer
Topic Interpretation in Determiner and Adverbial Quantification
Steven Franks
Agnostic Movement
Jon R. Gajewski
A General Theory of the Excluded Middle
Carlo Geraci
Sign Languages: a puzzle for successive cyclic linearization
Margaret Grant
Sloppy Identity and re-binding: Focus intervention by reconstruction
Jonathan MacDonald
Agreement with Asp and the Independence of Case
Marjorie Pak and Michael Friesner
French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF
Omer Preminger
Argument mapping and extraction
Ehren Reilly
Intra-paradigmatic predictability and morphological base identification in Texistepec Popoluca
Jasper Roodenburg
Variation in the nominal layer of Event Nominalizations
Jason Anthony Shaw
Strata classification by variegated similarity: the case of Sino-Japanese compounds
Kristen Syrett and Jeffrey Lidz
Learning Scope Economy: Why Children Will QR out of a Tensed Embedded Clause, but Adults Won't
Heather Lee Taylor
Can comparative correlatives be derived under minimalist assumptions?
Sarah VanWagenen
The Morphologically Organized Lexicon: Further experimental evidence
Michael Wagner
Givenness and Locality
Lynsey Kay Wolter
Domain restriction and the semantics of definite descriptions
Hedde Zeijlstra
Syntactically flexible functional categories
Niina Zhang
English Comitative PPs Are Not Adjuncts
Malte Zimmermann
Focus Marking in Western Chadic: Implications for a Cross-Linguistic Theory of Focus



program abstracts presenters registration arrive and stay call for papers about previously on nels home	Abstract booklet Download the NELS 36 abstract booklet. Abstracts invited talks: [ greg carlson ][ lisa cheng ][ mike terry ][ bruce tesar ] special sessions: [ semantics of under-represented languages ][ morphology-phonology interface ] areas: [ phonology ][ semantics ][ syntax ][ syntax/semantics ] invited talks Gregory N. Carlson Weak definite NPs Lisa Cheng Decomposing Bantu Relatives Michael J. Terry A Present Perfect Puzzle for African-American English Bruce Tesar Learning from Paradigmatic Information special sessions semantics of under-represented languages Rahul Balusu Distributive Reduplication in Telugu Claire Bowern Correlates of nonconfigurationality Lisa Matthewson Presuppositions and Cross-Linguistic Variation topics at the morphology-phonology interface Paula Fikkert, Claartje Levelt and Tania Zamuner Learning underlying forms: Evidence from child perception and production Melissa Frazier Output-Output Faithfulness to Moraic Structure: Evidence from New Phenomenon in American English Curt Rice Same problem, different solutions: Gaps and repairs at the morphology-phonology interface talks by area phonology Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara Phonetic Correlates of Second Occurence Focus Ruth Kramer Root and Pattern Morphology in Coptic: Evidence for the Root Ric Morris The optimal leveling of Latin imparisyllabic nouns Jennifer L. Smith Output-Output Correspondence vs. Cyclic OT: Beyond Morphological Derivation Elizabeth Zsiga, Maria Gouskova, and One Tlale On the status of voiced obstruents in Tswana: Against *ND semantics Pranav Anand Long-distance Indexicals Tania Ionin, Ora Matushansky and E.G. Ruys Parts of Speech: a unified semantics for partitives Nathan Klinedinst Bargains, Scales and ‘Only’ Paula Menéndez-Benito Exclusive Choices Yasuhiro Sasahira On the Stativity of Negation in Japanese Eytan Zweig The implications of dependent plural readings syntax / semantics Peter Hallman A Categorical Distinction between Stative and Eventive Verbs Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Florian Schäfer The fine structure of (anti-)causatives Jon Nissenbaum States, events and VP structure: evidence from purposive adjuncts syntax David Adger and Gillian Ramchand Psych nouns and the Structure of Predication Balázs Surányi Hungarian as a Japanese-type scrambling language Justin Fitzpatrick Two Types of Floating Quantifiers and their A/A-bar Properties Brent Henderson The Case for Concord: Multiple Agreement in Bantu Mayumi Hosono When is Object Shift prevented? Tomoko Kawamura Focal analysis of NPI connectivity and movement of negation Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith Nonconstituent Clefting in Japanese Meredith Larson The Thais that Bind: Apparent Principle C Violations in Thai Julie Anne Legate Two Types of Nominal Split Jon Sprouse Antecedent Contained Deletion and Movement Reconsidered Maziar Toosarvandani Leaving v Behind: Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates Masaya Yoshida Sometimes, Smaller is Better: Gapping, Sluicing and Semantic Identity posters Ruixi Ai Topic-comment Structure, Focus Movement and Gapping Formation Michael Barrie Control as Movement and Cyclic Linearization Seth Cable "Rule Replacement" in Lingit: The Importance of Morphosyntax to Morphophonology Kyungsook Chung Toward an Integrated Theory of the Perfect and the Indirect Evidential Andries W. Coetzee Grammar is both categorical and gradient Amy Rose Deal Transitivity mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface: disappearing object markers in Nez Perce Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer Topic Interpretation in Determiner and Adverbial Quantification Steven Franks Agnostic Movement Jon R. Gajewski A General Theory of the Excluded Middle Carlo Geraci Sign Languages: a puzzle for successive cyclic linearization Margaret Grant Sloppy Identity and re-binding: Focus intervention by reconstruction Jonathan MacDonald Agreement with Asp and the Independence of Case Marjorie Pak and Michael Friesner French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF Omer Preminger Argument mapping and extraction Ehren Reilly Intra-paradigmatic predictability and morphological base identification in Texistepec Popoluca Jasper Roodenburg Variation in the nominal layer of Event Nominalizations Jason Anthony Shaw Strata classification by variegated similarity: the case of Sino-Japanese compounds Kristen Syrett and Jeffrey Lidz Learning Scope Economy: Why Children Will QR out of a Tensed Embedded Clause, but Adults Won't Heather Lee Taylor Can comparative correlatives be derived under minimalist assumptions? Sarah VanWagenen The Morphologically Organized Lexicon: Further experimental evidence Michael Wagner Givenness and Locality Lynsey Kay Wolter Domain restriction and the semantics of definite descriptions Hedde Zeijlstra Syntactically flexible functional categories Niina Zhang English Comitative PPs Are Not Adjuncts Malte Zimmermann Focus Marking in Western Chadic: Implications for a Cross-Linguistic Theory of Focus