Conference Schedule

[Full Program attached as pdf below.]

Friday, February 12th



9:00-7:00 Registration ICC 141
9:00-10:30 Breakfast and Welcome ICC 141



10:30-12:00 Paper Session:  Syntax-Morphology
Chair: Corinne Hutchinson
 
10:30-11:00 Bronwyn Bjorkman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Syntax of Syncretism
11:00-11:30 M. Ryan Bochnak, University of Chicago  
  Interpreting a category of adjectives in Luganda
11:30-12:00 Patrick Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Accounting for the Distribution of -ire within the verbal system of Kinande
     
10:30-12:00 Paper Session: Syntax-Semantics
Chair: Mike Diercks
 
10:30-11:00 Mary Ellen Cathcart, University of Delaware
  The Syntax and Semantics of Albanian Desideratives
11:00-11:30 Marco Di Giullo, University of Tennessee  
  Ellipsis and the VP Structure in Modern Hebrew
11:30-12:00 Lilia Rissman, Johns Hopkins University
  Explaining the locative alternation



12:00-2:00 Lunch
   
2:00-3:00 Paper Session:  Syntax-Phonology
Chair: Sarah Grey
 
2:00-2:30 Scott Jackson, University of Maryland CASL
  Susan Garsney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ERPs Illuminate Interactions between Syntax and Prosody
2:30-3:00 Erin Zaroukian, Johns Hopkins University
  Phrasal homophony: an interaction between syntax and phonology
   
2:00-3:00 Paper Session
Chair: Mika Hama
 
2:00-2:30 Carol Tenney, Semanatic Compaction Systems
  Katya Hill, University of Pittsburgh
AAC speakers and the lexicon-grammar-phonetics interface in speaking errors
2:30-3:00 Rebecca Sachs, Georgetown University
  Visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese



3:00-3:15 Mini-break
 

3:15-4:30 Invited Plenary
Chair: Ruth Kramer
ICC Auditorium
  Alec Marantz, New York University  
  Locality Domains for Contextual Allosemy in Words



4:30-4:45 Mini-break
     
4:45-6:15 Paper Session: Syntax-Morphology
Chair: Jong Un Park
 
4:45-5:15 Joost Kremers, University of Frankfurt
  Morphology = Syntax = Morphology
5:15-5:45 Volha  Kharytonava, University of Western Ontario  
  Nominal and Adjectival Compounds in Distributed Morphology: With or Without Ezafe
5:45-6:15 Kyumin Kim, University of Toronto
  The syntax-morphology interface in voice syncretism: the role of Applicative head
   
4:45-6:15 Paper Session:  Semantics-Pragmatics
Chair: Lissa Krawczyk
 
4:45-5:15 Charles Beller, Johns Hopkins University
  Accent and description: An account of anaphoric epithets
5:15-5:45 Marissa Fond, Georgetown University  
  Perspective and predicates of personal taste: Data from Korean
5:45-6:15 Hyuna Kim, University of Southern California
  Pragmatic Double Access in non-SOT languages



6:15-8:00 Catered Reception ICC Galleria






Saturday, February 13th



9:00-7:00 Registration ICC 450
9:00-10:00 Breakfast and Welcome ICC 450
 

9:15-11:15 Invited Panel  
  Tone at the interface:  from phonetic data to underlying representations
  Lisa Zsiga: Organizer and Moderator
Presenters: Jim Gruber, Georgetown University 
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  Draga Zec, Cornell University
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  Dan Loehr, The Mitre Corporation 
  Inferring the categorical from the continuous in intonation (but not in gesture)
  Kim Teague, Georgetown University 
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9:45-11:15 Paper Session: Syntax-Semantics
Chair: Grant Armstrong

9:45-10:15 Oussama Haddad, CUNY Graduate Center
  DP internal displacement of demonstratives in Syro-Lebanese
10:15-10:45 João Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa  
  Syntax without discourse and post-syntactic operations
10:45-11:15 Jeffrey Punske, University of Arizona  
  Interfaces, Mapping and Clausal Parallelism



11:15-11:30 Mini-break
 

11:30-1:30 Invited Panel
  TBA
  Ruth Kramer: Organizer and Moderator
Presenters: Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Causatives and the Syntactic Nature of Words
  Emily Manetta, University of Vermont
  Kashmiri Causatives and the Causative Verbal Domain
  Greg Key, University of Arizona
  TBA



11:30-1:30 Paper Session:  Phonology-Phonetics
Chair: Jim Gruber

11:30-12:00 Goldie Dooley, Georgetown University
  Acoustic salience in the grammar and its relationship to psycholinguistic prominence
12:00-12:30 Hijo Kang, Stony Brook University  
  Position and height asymmetries in hiatus resolution: An acoustic analysis of Korean VV sequences
12:30-1:00 Yeeking Lai, Universiy of Delaware  
  The Role of Perception in Tonal Inventory: Thai as a Test Case
1-1:30 Miran Kim, Stony Brook University
  Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University
  Identifying stress placement with clitics in Arborese Sardinian



11:30 - 1:30 Poster Session
Chair: Mike Diercks
ICC Galleria
  Bozena Bednarikova,  Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
  Reflection of the "Natural March of the World" or the MORPHOLOGY - SYNTAX interface
 
  Gabriela Brozba,  Universiy of Bucharest  
  The Treatment of ‘Illegitimate’ Consonant Clusters in the Onset and the Coda
  Lan Kim, University of Delaware  
  Minimality Requirement: Evidence from the Tamil Nouns
  Darrell Larsen, University of Delaware
  A Two-strategy Approach to Relative Clauses in Korean
  Michail Lewintan,  Universität Bonn
  Vowel Assimilation in Bambara
  Kaori Miura, University of Edinburgh
  Phrase Structure and Cyclic Case Valuation in Japanese
  Gabriel de Avila Othero, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Word order inside the VP in Portuguese at the Syntax-Prosody-Pragmatics interface
 
  Junsuk Park,  University of Texas at Arlington
Syntax and Semantics Interface in Quantifier Floating
  Douglas Wulf,  George Mason University
  The Two Progressives in English



1:30-3:30 Lunch



3:30-5:00 Paper Session: Syntax-Phonology
Chair: Rebecca Sachs

3:30-4:00 Chao-ting Tim Chou,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Tsung-ying Victor Chen, University of Alberta
Multiple Spell-out and Xiamen Tone Sandhi
4:00-4:30 Ángel J. Gallego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  
  Cyclic Transfer and Ellipsis
4:30-5:00 Patricia Irwin, New York University
  Intransitive sentences, argument structure, and the syntax-prosody interface
     
3:30-5:00 Paper Session: Syntax-Semantics
Chair: Carlos Balhana

3:30-4:00 Octav Eugen DeLazero,  Cornell University
  The Syntax of Modal Adjectives: Movement and Reanalysis
4:00-4:30 Teresa Fredericks, CUNY Graduate Center  
  Nothing But Ellipsis: The Syntax and Semantics of ne…que Exceptives in French
 
4:30-5:00 Jisung Sun,  Stony Brook University  
  Focus in the Double Nominative Construction



5:00-5:15 Mini-break



5:15-6:30 Invited Plenary
Chair: Paul Portner
Lohrfink Auditorium,
Hariri Building 
  Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Distinguishing contrastive, new and given information






Sunday, February 14th



9:00-7:00 Registration ICC 462
9:00-10:00 Breakfast and Welcome ICC 462
 

9:15-10:45 Paper Session: Syntax-Morphology
Chair: Ashley Fidler
 
9:15-9:45 Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware
  The Passive By-Phrase is Not Related to the Active Subject
9:45-10:15 I-Ta Chris Hsieh, University of Connecticut, Storrs  
  Copy Realization and Cyclic Linearization
10:15-10:45 Stefan Keine, University of Leipzig
  Switch-Reference as an Interface Conspiracy
     
     
9:15-10:45 Paper Session: Lexicon-Syntax
Chair: Justin Kelly
 
9:15-9:45 Grant Armstrong, Georgetown University  
  Cognate Adjectival Constructions in Spanish: Roots, Conflation and Multiple Copy Spell-Out
9:45-10:15 Neil Myler, New York University
  A Phrasal Derivational Affix: The Case of -yoq in Quechua



10:45-11:00 Mini-break



11:00-12:30 Paper Session: Syntax-Morphology
Chair: Grant Armstrong
 
11:00-11:30 Jelena Runic,  University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Syntax or Morphology? The PCC across Slavic and Romance
11:30-12:00 Martin Walkow, University of Massacusetts, Amherst  
  Locality Conditions on Agreement at PF: A Case Study of Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic
12:00-12:30 Boris Harizanov, UC Santa Cruz
  A Unified Treatment of Bulgarian Clausal and Nominal Clitic Placement
     
11:00-12:00 Paper Session: Syntax-Semantics
Chair: Chung
 
11:00-11:30 Jong Un Park, Georgetown University
  Controlled Subjects and Their Interpretation in Jussive Complements in Korean
11:30-12:00 Miloje Despic, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  On The Morpho-Semantics of “Definite” Adjectives – Clitics vs. Affixes



12:30-12:45 Mini-break



12:45-2:00 Invited Plenary
Chairs: Justin Kelly/Cala Zubair
ICC Auditorium
  John Beavers, University of Texas, Austin  
  Manner and/or Result (in Syntax and/or Semantics)






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