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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Location: All events will take place in the William Harkness Hall (WLH) Building, 100 Wall St.
Events prior to 3PM will take place in Sudler Recital Hall, and events after 3PM will take place in Room 116.

8:00-9:30 Breakfast and Registration in Sudler Recital Hall

Session I in Sudler Recital Hall

9:30-10:00 Michael Freedman (Yale), A Contextual Variable Analysis of 'Have' and Relational Nouns
10:00-10:30 Daniel Lassiter (NYU), Why "Symmetry" is not a Problem for a Gricean Theory of Scalar Implicature
10:30-11:00 Miloje Despic (UConn), Clitics, Affixes, and the Interpretation of Definite Adjectives

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

Session II in Sudler Recital Hall

11:15-11:45 Oana Savescu Ciucivara (NYU), When Object Clitics Meet "Smuggling" Gerunds
11:45-12:15 Thomas Leu (Yale), Towards a Unified Approach to Verb Placement and Adjectival Inflection in German

12:15-2:00 Lunch

Session III in Sudler Recital Hall: Invited Speaker

2:00-3:00 David Pesetsky (MIT), Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break and Change of Location to Room 116

Session IV in Room 116

3:30-4:00 Marlin Taylor & Poppy Slocum (SUNY), The External Structure of the Vocative: Evidence from Italian
4:00-4:30 Jim Wood (NYU), Two Icelandic Prefixes as Diagnostics for Argument Structure
4:30-5:00 Teresa Fredericks (CUNY), Nothing but Ellipsis: The Syntax and Semantics of 'ne...que' Exceptives in French

5:00 Dinner and Party: Location TBA

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Sabina Matyiku,

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