Program and Rooms

nels 36 will take place in thompson. thompson 104 is listed as room 1 below, thompson 106 as room 2.

look for the nels 36 signs when you arrive. thompson is circled on this detailed campus map (3.6 mb) and indicated on this simplified map (good for driving).

preliminary schedule (subject to change) · download a printable version (pdf)

• schedule for [ friday ][ saturday ][ sunday ]
• invited talks: [ mike terry ][ lisa cheng ][ bruce tesar ][ greg carlson ]
• special sessions: [ semantics of under-represented languages ][ morphology-phonology interface ]
• session (phonology / syntax / semantics): [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ]
• poster session: [ friday ][ saturday ]

friday, 10/28
9.15 - 10	breakfast
10 - 11.15	session one · phonology · room 2 Elizabeth Zsiga [Georgetown University], Maria Gouskova [New York University], and One Tlale [Georgetown University] On the status of voiced obstruents in Tswana: Against *ND Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara [Universität Potsdam] Phonetic Correlates of Second Occurence Focus
11.15 - 11.30	coffee break
11.30 - 1	session two · syntax · room 2 Maziar Toosarvandani [UC Berkeley] Leaving v Behind: Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates Masaya Yoshida [University of Maryland, College Park] Sometimes, Smaller is Better: Gapping, Sluicing and Semantic Identity Jon Sprouse [University of Maryland, College Park] Antecedent Contained Deletion and Movement Reconsidered
1- 2.30	lunch break
2.30 - 3.15	special session one · invited talk · room 2 J. Michael Terry [UNC Chapel Hill] A Present Perfect Puzzle for African-American English
3.15 - 3.30	break
3.30 - 5	special session one · room 2 Claire Bowern [Rice University] Correlates of nonconfigurationality Lisa Matthewson [University of British Columbia] Presuppositions and Cross-Linguistic Variation Rahul Balusu [New York University] Distributive Reduplication in Telugu
5 - 5.30	break
5.30 - 6.30	poster session one Andries W. Coetzee [University of Michigan] Grammar is both categorical and gradient Jason Anthony Shaw [New York University] Strata classification by variegated similarity: the case of Sino-Japanese compounds Steven Franks [Indiana University] Agnostic Movement Omer Preminger [Tel-Aviv University] Argument mapping and extraction Jonathan MacDonald [Stony Brook University] Agreement with Asp and the Independence of Case Amy Rose Deal [UMass Amherst] Transitivity mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface: disappearing object markers in Nez Perce Hedde Zeijlstra [Universität Tübingen] Syntactically flexible functional categories Heather Lee Taylor [University of Maryland, College Park] Can comparative correlatives be derived under minimalist assumptions? Jon R. Gajewski [MIT/University of Connecticut] A General Theory of the Excluded Middle Michael Wagner [MIT] Givenness and Locality Cornelia Endriss [Universität Potsdam] and Stefan Hinterwimmer [Humboldt Universität] Topic Interpretation in Determiner and Adverbial Quantification Margaret Grant [McGill University] Sloppy Identity and re-binding: Focus intervention by reconstruction Sarah VanWagenen [UC Los Angeles] The Morphologically Organized Lexicon: Further experimental evidence
6.30 - 7.30	invited talk · room 2 Lisa Cheng [Universiteit Leiden] Decomposing Bantu Relatives
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saturday, 10/29
9 - 9.30	breakfast
9.30 - 11	parallel sessions: three and four session three · phonology · room 2 Ruth Kramer [UC Santa Cruz] Root and Pattern Morphology in Coptic: Evidence for the Root Jennifer L. Smith [UNC Chapel Hill] Output-Output Correspondence vs. Cyclic OT: Beyond Morphological Derivation Ric Morris [Middle Tennessee State University] The optimal leveling of Latin imparisyllabic nouns session four · syntax · room 1 Balázs Surányi [Hungarian Academy of Sciences] Hungarian as a Japanese-type scrambling language Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith [Ohio State University] Nonconstituent Clefting in Japanese Tomoko Kawamura [Stony Brook University] Focal analysis of NPI connectivity and movement of negation
11- 11.30	coffee break
11.30 - 1	parallel sessions: five and six session five · semantics · room 2 Nathan Klinedinst [UC Los Angeles] Bargains, Scales and ‘Only’ Paula Menéndez Benito [UC Santa Cruz] Exclusive Choices Yasuhiro Sasahira [University of Wisconsin-Madison] On the Stativity of Negation in Japanese session six · syntax · room 1 Meredith Larson [Northwestern University] The Thais that Bind: Apparent Principle C Violations in Thai Julie Anne Legate [University of Delaware] Two Types of Nominal Split Brent Henderson [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign] The Case for Concord: Multiple Agreement in Bantu
1 - 2.30	lunch break
2.30 - 3.15	special session two · invited talk · room 1 Bruce Tesar [Rutgers University] Learning from Paradigmatic Information
3.15 - 3.30	break
3.30 - 5	special session two · room 1 Paula Fikkert [Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen], Claartje Levelt [Universiteit Leiden] and Tania Zamuner [Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen] Learning underlying forms: Evidence from child perception and production Curt Rice [Universitetet i Tromsø] Same problem, different solutions: Gaps and repairs at the morphology-phonology interface Melissa Frazier [UNC Chapel Hill] Output-Output Faithfulness to Moraic Structure: Evidence from New Phenomenon in American English
5 - 5.30	break
5.30 - 6.30	poster session 2 Seth Cable [MIT] "Rule Replacement" in Lingit: The Importance of Morphosyntax to Morphophonology Marjorie Pak and Michael Friesner [University of Pennsylvania] French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF Ehren Reilly [Johns Hopkins University] Intra-paradigmatic predictability and morphological base identification in Texistepec Popoluca Michael Barrie [University of Toronto] Control as Movement and Cyclic Linearization Jasper Roodenburg [Universität Stuttgart] Variation in the nominal layer of Event Nominalizations Carlo Geraci [Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca] Sign Languages: a puzzle for successive cyclic linearization Niina Zhang [National Chung Cheng University] English Comitative PPs Are Not Adjuncts Ruixi Ai [Harvard University] Topic-comment Structure, Focus Movement and Gapping Formation Lynsey Kay Wolter [UC Santa Cruz] Domain restriction and the semantics of definite descriptions Malte Zimmermann [Humboldt Universität] Focus Marking in Western Chadic: Implications for a Cross-Linguistic Theory of Focus Kyungsook Chung [Simon Fraser University] Toward an Integrated Theory of the Perfect and the Indirect Evidential Kristen Syrett [Northwestern University] and Jeffrey Lidz [University of Maryland] Learning Scope Economy: Why Children Will QR out of a Tensed Embedded Clause, but Adults Won't
6.30 - 7.30	invited talk · room 1 Gregory N. Carlson [UMass Amherst, University of Rochester] Weak definite NPs
afterwards	party (including dinner)
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sunday, 10/30
9.30 - 10	breakfast
10 - 11.30	parallel sessions: seven and eight session seven · syntax · room 1 Mayumi Hosono [University of Newcastle/University of Durham] When is Object Shift prevented? David Adger [Queen Mary College, University of London] and Gillian Ramchand [Universitetet i Tromsø] Psych nouns and the Structure of Predication Justin Fitzpatrick [MIT] Two Types of Floating Quantifiers and their A/A-bar Properties session eight · semantics · room 2 Eytan Zweig [New York University] The implications of dependent plural readings Tania Ionin [University or Southern California], Ora Matushansky [CNRS/Université Paris 8] and E.G. Ruys [UiL OTS/Utrecht] Parts of Speech: a unified semantics for partitives Pranav Anand [MIT] Long-distance Indexicals
11.30 - 12	coffee break
12 - 1:30	session nine · syntax / semantics · room 1 Peter Hallman [University of Toronto] A Categorical Distinction between Stative and Eventive Verbs Artemis Alexiadou [Universität Stuttgart], Elena Anagnostopoulou [University of Crete] and Florian Schäfer [Universität Stuttgart] The fine structure of (anti-)causatives Jon Nissenbaum [McGill University] States, events and VP structure: evidence from purposive adjuncts
afterwards	nels business meeting
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