WSCLA 16
16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas
Feb. 11-13, 2011
All talks will take place in the Campus Center, room 163C
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
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Invited Speakers: Emmon Bach SOAS, U. of London Benjamin Bruening University of Delaware Amy Rose Deal Harvard University Lisa Matthewson University of British Columbia |
This year's conference at UMass will include general sessions, a poster session, a special session on semantic field work and a special session on language revitalization in New England. |
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Friday, Feb. 11 | |
9:00 | Welcome from Dr. Julie Hayes, Dean, UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts |
9-9:30 | The syntax and semantics of Viewpoint aspect in M?bengokre Ana Arregui, Maria Luisa Rivero and Andrés Salanova, University of Ottawa |
9:30-10 | Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo Ryan Bochnak, Timothy Grinsell and Alan Yu, University of Chicago |
10-10:45 | Amy Rose Deal, Harvard University A-thematic possessor raising |
break | |
11-11:30 | Question particles in Alsea, Paul Kroeber, Indiana University |
11:30-12 | Towards a Typology of Algonquian Relative Clauses Sara Johansson, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
lunch | |
2-2:30 | Special Treatment for Stems and Closed Syllables: Tone in Arapaho Eva Zimmerman and Jochen Trommer, University of Leipzig |
2:30-3 | The Stress System of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) Niki Foster UCLA |
3-3:45 | Transitivity Restrictions in Passamaquoddy and other Languages, Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware |
4-4:30 | Numerals, coercion and the count-mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi) Suzi Lima, University of Massachusetts |
4:30-5 | Semantic Evidence for Syntactic Structure: Bare nouns in Innu-aimun Carrie Gillon, Arizona State University |
5-5:30 | Mass-count coercion with the Universal Sculptor in Seri Carolyn O’Meara, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Jurgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo |
Saturday Feb. 12 | |
9-9:30 | Mapping Opposite Polarities: A Semantics for Blackfoot Noohk- Meagan Louie, UBC |
9:30-10 | Splitting POS: Evidence from Navajo for Two POS Morphemes Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, UMass |
10-10:45 | Modality and the Future in Gitxsan Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia |
break | |
11-11:30 | Evidentiality distinctions in Nivaclé determiners Analia Gutierrez, UBC |
11:30-12 | The role of nominalization in Northern Paiute embedding Maziar Toosarvandani, UCLA |
lunch | |
2-3:30 | Language revitalization in New England Loren Spears, Narragansett Sherry Gould, Abenaki Andrea Bear Nicholas, Maliseet Philip Deering, Mohawk |
break | |
3:45-4:30 | Emmon Bach, UMass and University of London(SOAS) Conjunct and Non-Indicative in Western Abenaki |
4:30-5:00 | Explaining Agent Extraction Asymmetries: A Sane Analysis Of The Q’anjob’al “Crazy Antipassive” Jessica Coon and Pedro Mateo Pedro, Harvard University |
5-5:30 | First-come, First-serve: marker-sensitive blocking Daniela Henze and Eva Zimmerman, University of Leipzig |
6:30 --> Party at Bertucci's in Amherst | |
Sunday Feb. 13 | |
9-9:30 | Adjectives and adverbs as distinct lexical categories in Inuktitut |
9:30-10 | The "attenuated" meaning of undone valency changes in two lowland South American languages Andres Salanova, University of Ottawa and Filomena Sandalo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas |
break | |
10:30-11:00 | The syntax of Innu-aimun locatives Will Oxford, University of Toronto |
11:00-11:30 | The Syntax of Second Position in Western Abenaki Phil LeSourd, Indiana University |