BLS28 Schedule

BLS 28 SCHEDULE

Except where otherwise noted, all talks and events will take place in 370 Dwinelle Hall.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2002

Special Session: Tibeto-Burman/Southeast Asian Linguistics

8:30 AM Coffee

9:00 AM Opening Remarks

9:30 AM Invited Speaker: Jerold Edmondson, University of Texas, Arlington, 'The Tibeto-Burman languages of Vietnam: a look at Phu Khla, Lolo, Sila, Coong, and Xa Pho'

10:20 AM break

10:30 AM Larry Hyman and Kenneth VanBik, University of California, Berkeley, 'Tone and Syllable Structure in Hakha (Lai-Chin)'

11:00 AM Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University, 'Timing tonogenesis: evidence from borrowing'

11:30 AM Rungpat Roengpitya, University of California, Berkeley, 'Different durations of diphthongs in Thai: a new finding'

12:00 PM lunch

1:30 PM Invited Speaker: Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon, 'Nominalization and Relativization in Tibeto-Burman'

2:20 PM break

2:30 PM Anne Daladier, CNRS, 'Kinship terms grammaticalized as classifiers in *k(V) for "animate" nouns in Austroasiatic and renewed again as gender pronoun-determiners in War-Khasic or animate, non animate, dual suffixes in Munda'

3:00 PM Aimee Lahaussois-Bartosik, University of California, Berkeley, 'Nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Thulung Rai'

3:30 PM David A. Peterson, Texas Tech University & MPI EVAN, 'On Khumi verbal pronominal morphology'

4:00 PM break

4:15 PM Patricia Donegan and David Stampe, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 'Southeast Asian features in the Munda languages'

4:45 PM N.J. Enfield, Max Planck, 'Bi-clausal expressions of 'cause' in mainland Southeast Asia'

5:15 PM Alice Vittrant, CNRS, 'Classifier systems in Burmese'

5:45 PM break

6:00 PM Invited Speaker: Graham Thurgood, CSU Chico, 'Contact produced variation in the Tsat of Hainan'

6:50 PM Closing Remarks

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2002

Parasession: Field Linguistics

8:30 AM Coffee

9:00 AM Invited Speaker: Ian Maddieson, University of California, Berkeley, 'Phonetics in the Field'

9:50 AM break

10:00 AM Marshall Lewis, Indiana University, 'Noun class and concord breakdown in Igo: Consensus and variation in morphosyntactic change in an endangered-language community'

10:30 AM Luciana Storto and Didier Demolin, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 'The phonetics and phonology of unreleased stops in Karitiana'

11:00 AM Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, University of Chicago, 'Directionality in vowel harmony: The case of Karaja (Macro-Je)'

11:30 AM lunch

General Session

1:00 PM Invited Speaker: Douglas Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia, 'Harmony drivers: No disagreement allowed'

1:50 PM break Please note that afternoon sessions occur concurrently in Dwinelle 370 (level F/G) & Dwinelle 3335 (level C)!

Phonology—Room 370

2:00 PM Olga Vaysman, MIT, 'Against Richness of the Base: Evidence from Nganasan'

2:30 PM Gessiane Picanco, University of British Columbia, Museu Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, 'Tonal polarity as phonologically conditioned allomorphy in Munduruku'

3:00 PM Jonathan Barnes and Darya Kavitskaya, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, 'Phonetic analogy and schwa deletion in French'

3:30 PM Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 'Language typology and tonogenesis in two Atlantic creoles'

Syntax—Room 3335

2:00 PM Deo Ngonyani, Michigan State University, 'Sentential negation and verb movement in Bantu languages'

2:30 PM Felicia Lee, University of British Columbia, 'Anaphoric R-expressions as bound variables'

3:00 PM Eun-Jung Yoo, Seoul National University, 'A lexical approach to English floating quantifiers'

3:30 PM Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego, 'Coordination, subordination, and connectedness of events'

4:00 PM break

Sociolinguistics—Room 370

4:15 PM Mie Hiramoto-Sanders, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 'Gender stereotypes in prosody: Japanese interactional particles ne and yo'

4:45 PM Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania, 'A variationist approach to dialectology: Chain shifts and mergers in Yiddish'

5:15 PM Simo Maatta, University of California, Berkeley, 'Problems of promoting regional or minority languages in the European Union: Conflicting ideologies of language'

Discourse Analysis—Room 3335

4:15 PM Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, 'Possessive NPs, discourse functions, and discourse profiles'

4:45 PM Mischa Park-Doob, University of Chicago, 'Deconstructing ‘topic’: Relevance, consciousness, and the momentum of ideas'

5:15 PM Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota, 'Syntactic projectability and co-participant completion in Japanese conversation'

5:45 PM break

6:00 PM **Note! Formerly scheduled invited speaker Lesley Milroy regretfully had to cancel her talk due to illness. A lingering ear infection has made flying too risky. We apologize for the disappointment.**

6:00 PM break; dinner party set up

7:00 PM Dinner Party -- Join us for drinks, Thai food, music, and great conversation. There is no additional charge -- cost is included in registration fee. **Note! The dinner party will now begin at 7:00 (instead of 7:30).**

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002

Parasession: Field Linguistics

8:30 AM coffee

9:00 AM Invited Speaker: Jörgen Rischel, University of Copenhagen, 'Paradoxes and Dilemnas in Linguistic Field Work'

9:50 AM break

10:00 AM Suzanne Wertheim, University of California, Berkeley, 'Cleaning up for company: Fieldwork and data “purity”'

10:30 AM Elena Benedicto, Modesta Dolores, Melba McLean, Purdue University, URACCAN University, CIDCA University, 'Fieldwork as a participatory research activity: The Mayangna Linguistic Team'

11:00 AM Suzanne Wash, University of California, Davis, 'Before you record anything else: Topics and questions to consider when you interview a speaker for the first time'

11:30 AM lunch

General

1:00 PM Invited Speaker: John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, 'Keeping and Losing Contrasts'

1:50 PM break Please note that afternoon sessions occur concurrently in Dwinelle 370 (level F/G) & Dwinelle 3335 (level C)!

Phonetics—Room 370

2:00 PM Krisztina Zajdo, University of Washington, 'Vowel acquisition in Hungarian: Developmental data'

2:30 PM Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin, 'Time course of bandwidth of the first formant'

3:00 PM Jose R. Benki, University of Michigan, 'Effects of signal-independent factors in speech perception'

3:30 PM Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Simon Fraser University, 'Japanese listeners’ use of duration cues in the identification of English high front vowels'

4:00 PM Caroline Smith, University of New Mexico, 'Discourse-related effects on speech durations: a challenge for models of speech production'

Morphology, Semantics I—Room 3335

2:00 PM Adam Albright, University of California, Los Angeles, 'Base selection in analogical change: A German/Yiddish comparison'

2:30 PM Brian Joseph and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University, 'Constellations, polysemy, and Hindi ko'

3:00 PM Ellen Dodge and Abby Wright, University of California, Berkeley, 'Herds of wildebeests, flasks of vodka, heaps of trouble: An embodied constructional approach to English measure phrases '

3:30 PM Collin F. Baker and Josef Ruppenhofer, International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 'English verb classes: Alternatives to alternations'

4:00 PM Malka Rappaport Hovav & Beth Levin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stanford University, 'Change of state verbs: Implications for theories of argument projection'

4:30 PM break

Historical—Room 370

4:45 PM Matthew L. Juge, TCU, 'Unidirectionality in grammaticalization and lexical shift: The case of English rather'

5:15 PM Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Diachronic aspects of Preferred Argument Structure in English and broader implications'

5:45 PM Paul Barthmaier, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Unpacking the Okanagan person-marking conundrum'

Semantics II—Room 3335

4:45 PM Saundra K. Wright, California State University, Chico, 'Transitivity and change of state verbs'

5:15 PM Michael Israel, University of Maryland, 'Consistency and creativity in first language acquisition'

5:45 PM Charles J. Fillmore and Hiroaki Sato, International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senshu University, Japan, 'Transparency and looking for arguments'

7:00 PM Pizza & Movie Night -- When is the last time you saw a movie with a linguist as protagonist? How about one set at a Linguistics Institute with an entire cast of linguistics students and professors? Join us for a screening of the 1977 Polish film, Barwy Ochronne (Camouflage). There is no additional charge, although a $6.00 donation is requested if you plan to eat pizza! Get more information and sign up at the registration desk at the conference.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2002

Parasession: Field Linguistics

8:30 AM coffee

9:00 AM Invited Speaker: Pam Munro, University of California, Los Angeles, '"Peculiar to Themselves": Idioms in the Dictionary'

9:50 AM break

10:00 AM Esther Pascual, University of California, San Diego, 'Interrogatives in the field: The cognitive ethnopragmatics of a murder trial '

10:30 AM Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin, 'Tracing dialect death: The Texas German dialect project'

11:00 AM Larry Hyman, Heiko Narrog, Mary Paster, and Imelda Udoh
University of California, Berkeley, Hokkaido University, and University of Uyo
'Legbo verb inflection: A semantic and phonological particle analysis'

11:30 AM William Hanks, University of California, Berkeley, 'Proximity and the deictic field'

12:00 PM Closing Remarks

8:30 AM	Coffee
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks
9:30 AM	Invited Speaker: Jerold Edmondson, University of Texas, Arlington, 'The Tibeto-Burman languages of Vietnam: a look at Phu Khla, Lolo, Sila, Coong, and Xa Pho'
10:20 AM	break
10:30 AM	Larry Hyman and Kenneth VanBik, University of California, Berkeley, 'Tone and Syllable Structure in Hakha (Lai-Chin)'
11:00 AM	Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University, 'Timing tonogenesis: evidence from borrowing'
11:30 AM	Rungpat Roengpitya, University of California, Berkeley, 'Different durations of diphthongs in Thai: a new finding'
12:00 PM	lunch
1:30 PM	Invited Speaker: Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon, 'Nominalization and Relativization in Tibeto-Burman'
2:20 PM	break
2:30 PM	Anne Daladier, CNRS, 'Kinship terms grammaticalized as classifiers in *k(V) for "animate" nouns in Austroasiatic and renewed again as gender pronoun-determiners in War-Khasic or animate, non animate, dual suffixes in Munda'
3:00 PM	Aimee Lahaussois-Bartosik, University of California, Berkeley, 'Nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Thulung Rai'
3:30 PM	David A. Peterson, Texas Tech University & MPI EVAN, 'On Khumi verbal pronominal morphology'
4:00 PM	break
4:15 PM	Patricia Donegan and David Stampe, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 'Southeast Asian features in the Munda languages'
4:45 PM	N.J. Enfield, Max Planck, 'Bi-clausal expressions of 'cause' in mainland Southeast Asia'
5:15 PM	Alice Vittrant, CNRS, 'Classifier systems in Burmese'
5:45 PM	break
6:00 PM	Invited Speaker: Graham Thurgood, CSU Chico, 'Contact produced variation in the Tsat of Hainan'
6:50 PM	Closing Remarks

1:00 PM	Invited Speaker: Douglas Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia, 'Harmony drivers: No disagreement allowed'
1:50 PM	break Please note that afternoon sessions occur concurrently in Dwinelle 370 (level F/G) & Dwinelle 3335 (level C)!
	Phonology—Room 370
2:00 PM	Olga Vaysman, MIT, 'Against Richness of the Base: Evidence from Nganasan'
2:30 PM	Gessiane Picanco, University of British Columbia, Museu Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, 'Tonal polarity as phonologically conditioned allomorphy in Munduruku'
3:00 PM	Jonathan Barnes and Darya Kavitskaya, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, 'Phonetic analogy and schwa deletion in French'
3:30 PM	Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 'Language typology and tonogenesis in two Atlantic creoles'
	Syntax—Room 3335
2:00 PM	Deo Ngonyani, Michigan State University, 'Sentential negation and verb movement in Bantu languages'
2:30 PM	Felicia Lee, University of British Columbia, 'Anaphoric R-expressions as bound variables'
3:00 PM	Eun-Jung Yoo, Seoul National University, 'A lexical approach to English floating quantifiers'
3:30 PM	Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego, 'Coordination, subordination, and connectedness of events'
4:00 PM	break
	Sociolinguistics—Room 370
4:15 PM	Mie Hiramoto-Sanders, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 'Gender stereotypes in prosody: Japanese interactional particles ne and yo'
4:45 PM	Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania, 'A variationist approach to dialectology: Chain shifts and mergers in Yiddish'
5:15 PM	Simo Maatta, University of California, Berkeley, 'Problems of promoting regional or minority languages in the European Union: Conflicting ideologies of language'
	Discourse Analysis—Room 3335
4:15 PM	Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, 'Possessive NPs, discourse functions, and discourse profiles'
4:45 PM	Mischa Park-Doob, University of Chicago, 'Deconstructing ‘topic’: Relevance, consciousness, and the momentum of ideas'
5:15 PM	Polly Szatrowski, University of Minnesota, 'Syntactic projectability and co-participant completion in Japanese conversation'
5:45 PM	break
6:00 PM	**Note! Formerly scheduled invited speaker Lesley Milroy regretfully had to cancel her talk due to illness. A lingering ear infection has made flying too risky. We apologize for the disappointment.**
6:00 PM	break; dinner party set up
7:00 PM	Dinner Party -- Join us for drinks, Thai food, music, and great conversation. There is no additional charge -- cost is included in registration fee. **Note! The dinner party will now begin at 7:00 (instead of 7:30).**

1:00 PM	Invited Speaker: John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, 'Keeping and Losing Contrasts'
1:50 PM	break Please note that afternoon sessions occur concurrently in Dwinelle 370 (level F/G) & Dwinelle 3335 (level C)!
	Phonetics—Room 370
2:00 PM	Krisztina Zajdo, University of Washington, 'Vowel acquisition in Hungarian: Developmental data'
2:30 PM	Hansang Park, University of Texas at Austin, 'Time course of bandwidth of the first formant'
3:00 PM	Jose R. Benki, University of Michigan, 'Effects of signal-independent factors in speech perception'
3:30 PM	Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Simon Fraser University, 'Japanese listeners’ use of duration cues in the identification of English high front vowels'
4:00 PM	Caroline Smith, University of New Mexico, 'Discourse-related effects on speech durations: a challenge for models of speech production'
	Morphology, Semantics I—Room 3335
2:00 PM	Adam Albright, University of California, Los Angeles, 'Base selection in analogical change: A German/Yiddish comparison'
2:30 PM	Brian Joseph and Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University, 'Constellations, polysemy, and Hindi ko'
3:00 PM	Ellen Dodge and Abby Wright, University of California, Berkeley, 'Herds of wildebeests, flasks of vodka, heaps of trouble: An embodied constructional approach to English measure phrases '
3:30 PM	Collin F. Baker and Josef Ruppenhofer, International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 'English verb classes: Alternatives to alternations'
4:00 PM	Malka Rappaport Hovav & Beth Levin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stanford University, 'Change of state verbs: Implications for theories of argument projection'
4:30 PM	break
	Historical—Room 370
4:45 PM	Matthew L. Juge, TCU, 'Unidirectionality in grammaticalization and lexical shift: The case of English rather'
5:15 PM	Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Diachronic aspects of Preferred Argument Structure in English and broader implications'
5:45 PM	Paul Barthmaier, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Unpacking the Okanagan person-marking conundrum'
	Semantics II—Room 3335
4:45 PM	Saundra K. Wright, California State University, Chico, 'Transitivity and change of state verbs'
5:15 PM	Michael Israel, University of Maryland, 'Consistency and creativity in first language acquisition'
5:45 PM	Charles J. Fillmore and Hiroaki Sato, International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senshu University, Japan, 'Transparency and looking for arguments'

7:00 PM	Pizza & Movie Night -- When is the last time you saw a movie with a linguist as protagonist? How about one set at a Linguistics Institute with an entire cast of linguistics students and professors? Join us for a screening of the 1977 Polish film, Barwy Ochronne (Camouflage). There is no additional charge, although a $6.00 donation is requested if you plan to eat pizza! Get more information and sign up at the registration desk at the conference.