FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000
SPECIAL SESSION: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
OF THE AMERICAS
8:30 COFFEE
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: EMMON BACH,
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
More impossible words
BREAK
10:00 Multiple Antipassives in Halkomelem
Salish
Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University
Thomas E. Hukari, University of Victoria
10:30 The semantics of the Salishan suffix *an/n'ak
Mercedes Q. Hinkson, Simon Fraser University
11:00 Complex Predicates in Tsafiki
Connie Dickinson, University of Oregon
LUNCH
12:30 Argument Structure of Klamath Bipartite
Stems
Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon
1:00 Word Order and Inverse Voice in Isthmus
Mixe
Julia Dieterman, University of Texas at Arlington
1:30 Aspectual classes and non-agentive morphosyntax
in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00 Demonstrative words in Passamaquoddy
Eve Ng, State University of New York at Buffalo
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MARIANNE MITHUN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
Ergativity and contact on the Oregon coast: Alsea, Siuslaw, and Coos
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3:30 Coordination, clitic placement, and
prosody in Zapotec
George Aaron Broadwell, University at Albany, State University of New York
4:00 Grammaticalization of Olutec motion verbs
under areal contact
Roberto Zavala, University of Oregon
4:30 Multiple Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut
Carrie Gillon, University of British Columbia
5:00 INVITED SPEAKER: JERRY SADOCK
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: MANFRED KRIFKA
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
Alternatives for Aspectual
Particles: The semantics of still and already
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10:00 Happening gradually
Christopher Piñón, Universität Düsseldorf
10:30 Event underspecification and aspect
marking in Thai
Jean-Pierre Koenig and Nuttanart Muansuwan, State University
of New York at Buffalo
11:00 Event Structure vs. Phasal Structure
and Quasi-Discourse Relations
Patrick Caudal and Laurent Roussarie, University of Paris 7
LUNCH
SESSION II: SYNTAX
12:30 On the topicalizing nature
of multiple left-dislocations
Eugenia Casielles, Wayne State University
1:00 Markedness and Pronoun Incorporation
Han-Jung Lee, Stanford University
1:30 Syntactically-based lexical decomposition:
the case of climb revisited
Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2:00 The go (Particle) and Verb constructions
in English
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Rice University
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: ELLEN PRINCE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Linguistic vs. metalinguistic intuitions
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SESSION III: PHONOLOGY
3:30 Probability in phonological generalizations:
modeling optional French final consonants
Benjamin K. Bergen, UC Berkeley and ICSI
4:00 Sonority-Driven Reduction
Katherine M. Crosswhite, University of Rochester
4:30 Prominence, Augmentation, and Neutralization in Phonology
Jennifer. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
5:00 Re-examining default-to-opposite stress
Matthew K. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
5:30 Yaka nasal harmony: spreading or segmental
correspondence?
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California
6:00 Describing Syncretism: Rules of referral after fifteen years
Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University
ALTERNATE
Laryngeal Neutralization in Lezgian
Alan C. L. Yu, University of California, Berkeley
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: ANGELIKA KRATZER
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
Building Statives
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10:00 Imperfective Aspect and Event Participants
in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Juliet Wai-hong Du, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 From Imperfective to Progressive via Relative Present
Elena Maslova, University of Bielefeld
11:00 Between perfective and past: Preterits
in Turkic and Nakh-Daghestanian
Sergei Tatevosov, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Moscow State University
LUNCH
SESSION II: PHONETICS
12:30 Compensatory lengthening without moras: A study in phonologization
Darya Kavitskaya and Jonathan Barnes, University of California, Berkeley
1:00 Trace of F2 peaks as a quantitative descriptor
of aspiration
Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin
1:30 What is /l/?
Joshua Guenter, University of California, Berkeley
2:00 On the accented/unaccented distinction
in western Basque and the typology of accentual systems
José Ignacio Hualde, Rajka Smiljanic and Jennifer Cole, University
of Illinois
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: SHERMAN WILCOX
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Gesture, Icon, and Symbol: The Expression of Modality in Signed Languages
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SESSION III: SEMANTICS
3:30 The Need for the Resultative Network
Cristiano Broccias, University of Pavia
4:00 A cognitive account of the English meronymic
"by" phrase
Monica Corston-Oliver, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 Referential Properties of Factive and
Interrogative Complements Indicate their Semantics
Michael Hegarty, Louisiana State University
5:00 The Distribution of Raising Constructions
in French
Michel Achard, Rice University
5:30 INVITED SPEAKER: MICHAEL TOMASELLO
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY AT LEIPZIG
A Usage-Based Approach to Children's Syntactic
Creativity
ALTERNATE
Vowel quality and voice quality correlations: A laryngeal account of
their origins
Graham Thurgood, California State University, Fresno
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2000
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: ASPECT
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: BETH LEVIN
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Aspect, lexical semantic representation, and argument expression
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10:00 The semantics of Russian aspect: Accounting for the uses of the
imperfective
Esther Wood, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in Guyanese
Creole
Jack Sidnell, Northwestern University
SESSION II: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
11:00 Historical Development of Reported
Speech in Chinese
Jya-Lin Hwang, University of Hawaii, Manoa
11:30 Gesture, Lexical Words, and Grammar:
Grammaticization Processes in ASL
Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico
Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
LUNCH
SESSION III: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
1:00 Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles
in Spanish and Hindi
Scott Schwenter and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University
1:30 Relation between gaze, head nodding and
aizuti at a Japanese company meeting
Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota
2:00 The Korean Modal Marker keyss Revisited:
A Marker of Achieved State of Intersubjectivity
Kyung-Hee Suh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Kyu-hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University
2:30 Distributed (and Dissolved) Pragmatics
Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University
3:00 INVITED SPEAKER: WALT WOLFRAM
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Reconstructing the History of African American
English: New Data on
an Old Theme