PROGRAM
FEAST 2016
Venice September 1-2, 2016
Auditorium Santa Margherita, Venice
September 1, 2016
8:15-8:45 Registration
8:45 Welcome and opening
9:00 Iconicity and morphology
Carol Padden - invited speaker (University of California, San Diego)
9:50 Psych-verb constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT)
Marloes Oomen (University of Amsterdam)
10:30 Is it going backwards? Not really!
Carlo Geraci (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Lara Mantovan (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Valentina Aristodemo (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
11:10 Coffee break
11:40 How to lick a plate clean in DGS: Resultative constructions in German Sign Language
Cornelia Loos (University of Texas at Austin)
12:20 Transitivizing strategies for motion predicates in 3 Sign Languages
Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)
13:00 Lunch break
14:20 The effect of a classifier predicate on the word order in an SVO sign language
Matic Pavlič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
15:00 Word-internal coordination in handling classifier predicates
Vadim Kimmelman, Roland Pfau, Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam)
15:40 Poster presentation
16:10 Coffee break
16:40 Poster session
17:20 Factors favouring instrument promotion in sign language predicates
Diane Brentari, Emre Hakgüder, Kat Montemurro (University of Chicago)
18:00 Representation of Event Semantics in Predicate Signs and Gestures
Natasha Abner, Ryan King, Marta Russonniello (Montclair State University)
18:40 Business meeting
20:00 Social dinner
September 2, 2016
9:00 Bare NPs and Number Specification in ASL
Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University)
9:40 When one patterns someone: Defining the properties of two indefinite pronouns in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Gemma Barberà (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS, Paris 8)
10:20 Adjunct subordinate: the case of temporal clauses in LIS
Valentina Aristodemo, Carlo Geraci, Mirko Santoro (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Emergence of a subordinate construction in a sign language: Intonation ploughs the field for morphosyntax
Svetlana Dachkovsky, Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
12:10 Lunch break
14:00 Revisiting the non-manual marker ‘bn’ in TİD
Serpil Karabüklü (Boğaziçi University)
14:40 Manipulating nonmanuals in a lexical decision task: a reaction time study of German Sign Language (DGS)
Nina-Kristin Pendzich, Markus Steinbach, Annika Herrmann (University of Göttingen)
15:20 Poster presentation
15:50 Coffee break
16:20 Poster session
17:00 Pointing to the right side: An ERP study on anaphora resolution in German Sign Language
Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu, Annika Herrmann, Edgar Onea, Markus Steinbach, Nivedita Mani (University of Göttingen)
17:40 Syntactic difficulties in the spoken language of orally-trained individuals with hearing-impairment
Naama Friedmann - invited speaker (Tel Aviv University)
18:30 Closing session
Posters
September 1st, 2016
Classifications of modal-like expressions in Japanese Sign Language: a preliminary study to investigate the cartography of the right periphery
Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University)
Discourse functions of palm-up in German Sign Language (DGS)
Elisabeth Volk (University of Göttingen)
Simultaneous and sequential compounds in LIS: Preliminary results from a perceptual experiment
Mirko Santoro (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Conditional clauses in DGS and LIBRAS - A systematic comparison
Liona Paulus (University of Göttingen)
M1L2 signers: Accent and linguistic characteristics of Deaf bilingual signers
Shane Blau (Gallaudet University)
The underestimated power of transitional movements within syntactic processing in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs (University of Salzburg), Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University), Dietmar Roehm (University of Salzburg)
September 2nd, 2016
The syntax of finiteness in ÍTM
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland), Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir, Júlía G. Hreinsdóttir (The Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Reykjavík)
Weak drop in Shangai Sign Language
Shengyun Gu (East China Normal University, University of Connecticut)
Relationship between executive function and sign language skills in school-aged deaf children
Justyna Kotowicz (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski), Magda Schromova (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Bencie Woll (University College of London), Rosalind Herman (City University London), Maria Kielar-Turska (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), Joanna Łacheta (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Is mouthing a core component of sign languages?
Beatrice Giustolisi, Emiliano Mereghetti (University of Milano-Bicocca), Carlo Cecchetto (Université de Paris 8, CNRS - UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage)
Gradual recruitment of body articulations for discourse structuring in a young sign language
Rose Stamp, Svetlana Dachkovsky, Gal Belsitzman, Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)