THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
FEBRUARY 14-16, 1998

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SPECIAL SESSION: INDO-EUROPEAN SUBGROUPING AND
INTERNAL RELATIONS
The morning of Sat. February 14, 1998, Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

PARASESSION: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGICAL UNIVERSALS
Parasession and General Session: Sat.-Mon. February 14-16, Booth Aud., Boalt Hall,
UC Berkeley


SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 14, 1998: Special Session: Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations
	8:00	General and Special Session Registration Opens

MORNING SESSION
	9:00	Johanna Nichols, University of California - Berkeley, "Northeast Caucasian as Evidence for Early Indo-European Branching"
	9:30	Joseph F. Eska, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, "The Position of Lepontic"
	10:00	Craig Melchert,  University of North Carolina, "The Dialectal Position of Anatolian within Indo-European"

Break (10:40-10:50)

LATE MORNING SESSION
	10:50	Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania, "Some Consequences of a New Proposal for Subgrouping the Indo-European Family"
	11:30	Andrew Garrett, University of California - Berkeley, "Adjarian's Law, the Glottalic Theory, and the Position of Armenian"

LUNCH BREAK (12:00-1:30)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1998: General Session
	12:00	General Session Registration

AFTERNOON SESSION
	1:30	Len Talmy, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Comparing Linguistic Structure with Visual Structure"
	2:10	Tomoko Yamashita Smith, University of California - Berkeley, "How 'give' and 'receive' Provide a Structure for more Abstract Notions: The Case of Benefactives, Adversatives, Causatives, and Passives.
	2:40	Janine Toole, Simon Fraser University, "Telescope Anaphora"
	3:10	Hana Filip, University of Rochester, "Lexical Constraint-Based Approach to Reduced Relatives"

Break (3:40-3:50) 



LATE AFTERNOON SESSION: Parasession: Phonetics and Phonological Universals
	3:50	Bjšrn Lindblom, University of Stockholm and University of Texas at Austin, "Emergent Phonology"
	4:30	Marc Joanisse and Mark Seidenberg, University of Southern Califormia, "Functional Bases of Phonological Universals: A Connectionist Approach"
	5:00	Madelaine PlauchŽ, Rosemary Beam de Azcona, Rungpat Roengpitya, and William Weigel, University of California - Berkeley, "Glottalized Sonorants: A Phonetic Universal"
	5:30	John J. Ohala, University of California - Berkeley, "Nasalized Fricatives? An Aerodynamic and Acoustic Study"

	6:30 	BLS 24 PARTY: Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall.


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1998

MORNING SESSION
	9:00	Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University, "Lexical and Grammatical Universals as a Key to Conceptual Structures"
	9:40	Norine Berenz, University of Witwatersrand, "Person Reference and References to People in Brazilian Sign Language"
	10:10	Roser Morante, Universitat de Barcelona and Gloria V‡zquez, Universitat de Lleida, "Posar (put), Donar (give), and Anar (go): Shift Verbs in Catalan"
	10:40	Misha Becker, University of California - Los Angeles, "Why Children Omit Function Morphemes: Metric vs. Syntactic Structure"

Break (11:10-11:20)

LATE MORNING SESSION: Parasession: Phonetics and Phonological Universals
	11:20	Ian Maddieson, University of California - Los Angeles, "Why Make Life Hard? - Some Reflections on Rare and Difficult Sounds"
	12:00	Victoria B. Andersen, University of California, Los Angeles, "Testing Competing Phonetic Theories of Articulation: Polarization and Gestural Economy"
	12:30	Maria-Josep SolŽ, Autonomous University of Barcelona, TBA

LUNCH BREAK (1:10-2:10) 

AFTERNOON SESSION
	2:10	Stephen Pinker, MIT, "Words and Rules"
	2:50	Catherine Travis, La Trobe University, "Bueno: A Spanish Interactive Discourse Marker"
	3:20	Shie Sato, University of California - Los Angeles and Shigeko Okamoto, California State University - Fresno, "Self-Orientedness in Japanese Communication Styles: (In) Direct Speech and Turn Management"
	3:50	Ritva Laury, California State University - Fresno, "The Case of the Noun Phrase in the Finnish Adpositional Phrase: A Discourse-Pragmatic Account" 

Break (4:20-4:30)

LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
	4:30	Eve Ng, SUNY - Buffalo, "Linguistics and the "Linguistic Turn": Language Reality and Knowledge"
	5:00	Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart, McGill University, "Evidence for the Distinction between Resultative and Consequential Serial Verbs"
	5:30	Mark D. Arnold, University of Maryland, "Why Disappeared V-Raising From English? (Evidence for Syntactic Triggers)"
	6:00	Veronica Grondona, University of Pittsburg, "Location and Direction in Waikuruan Languages"
	6:30	Yoon-Suk Chung, University of California - Berkeley, "The Tough Construction is Neither Extraction Nor Control"


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1998

MORNING SESSION
	9:00	Piotr Cap, University of California - Berkeley, "Language and Responsibility: Perceptions of NATO Expansion"
	9:30	Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatic, University of Texas at Austin, "A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement"
	10:00	Gwangyoon Goh, The Ohio State University, "Making the Best of Probabilistic Evidence: The Convergence of 'Similarities' in Calculating the Factor of Chance"
	10:30	Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University, "Motivating Morpho-Syntactic Changes in Turkic Subordination "

	Break (11:00-11:10)

LATE MORNING SESSION
	11:10	Janine Toole, Simon Fraser University and Linda Uyechi, Stanford University, "The Natural Classes of Two-handed Signs"
	11:40	Mathew Gordon, University of California - Los Angeles, "An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Laryngeally Complex Vowels"
	12:10	Grazyna Rowicka, HIL/Leiden University, "On Mohawk Ghosts: Audibility vs. Visibility"
	12:40	Phil Gaines, University of Washington, "The Discontinuous Intonation Contour: A Case for Rethinking Intonation Contour/Intonation Phrase Isomorphy"

LUNCH BREAK (1:10-2:20) 

AFTERNOON SESSION: Parasession: Phonetics and Phonological Universals
	2:20	Patrice Beddor, University of Michigan, "Perceptual Confusions and Phonological Change: How Confused is the Listener?"
	3:00	Don Salting, Indiana University, "The Nested Height Model of Vowel Features"
	3:30	Joo-Kyeong Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "A Stress Effect on CV Coarticulation and its Implications for Phonology"
	4:00	Patricia Donegan and Paul Lassettre, University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Perception in Optimality Theory: the Frugality of the Base"

Break (4:30-4:40)

LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
	4:40	Yoko Hasegawa, University of California - Berkeley, "Linguistic Systems and Social Models: A Case Study from Japanese"
	5:10	Jack Sidnell, University of California - Los Angeles, "Discourse-Based Solutions to Quantitative Problems in Sociolinguistics "
	5:40	Sung-A Kim, University of Texas - Austin, "Phonetic Assessment of Local Tone Spreading"