Berkeley Linguistics Society
BLS 30 Schedule
FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2004
10:00-on Registration (Dwinelle 370)
12:30 Opening Remarks (Dwinelle 370)
SPECIAL SESSION I: Morphology of Native American Languages (Dwinelle 370)
1:00-2:00 MONICA MACAULAY (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"ON THE KARUK DIRECTIONAL SUFFIXES"
2:00-2:30 "A Preliminary Methodology for the Investigation of Speaker's Knowledge of Structure in Athabaskan"
Joyce McDonough & Rachel Sussman (University of Rochester)
2:30-3:00 "An Automodular Approach to Noun Classifiers in Piratapuya (Eastern Tukanoan)"
Christopher Ball (University of Chicago)
3:00-3:30 "Productivity and Lexicalization in Pima Compounds"
Pamela Munro & Jason Riggle (UCLA)
PARASESSION I: Conceptual Structure & Cognition in Grammatical Theory (370)
3:45-4:45 MELISSA BOWERMAN (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
"EVENT CATEGORIZATION IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION"
5:00-5:30 "Learning Japanese Case: Overextensions and the Effects of Feedback"
Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
5:30-6:00 "Chunks and Blending"
Michael Barlow (University of Auckland)
6:00-6:30 "Iconicity and Viewpoint in Determining the Word Order in Dative Constructions in Japanese"
Noriko Iwasaki (UC Davis)
Misumi Sadler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
6:30-7:00 "What Makes Path of Motion Salient?"
Stephanie Pourcel (University of Durham)
SATURDAY, Feb. 14, 2004
9:00-9:55 ALICE HARRIS (SUNY Stony Brook) (Dwinelle 370)
"HISTORY IN SUPPORT OF SYNCHRONY"
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (Dwinelle 370)
10:00-10:30 "Anti-Homophony Effects in Dakelh (Carrier) Valence Morphology"
Suzanne Gessner (University of Victoria)
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia)
10:30-11:00 "An Intergenerational Investigation of Hupa Stress"
Matthew Gordon & Edmundo Luna (UC Santa Barbara)
11:00-11:30 "The Emergence of Dorsal Stops after High Vowels in Huishu"
David R. Mortensen (UC Berkeley)
11:30-12:00 "How Far Likeness Can Go: Grammaticalization of kath- in Korean"
Seongha Rhee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies & Stanford University)
SYNTAX I (Dwinelle 182)
10:00-10:30 "Malagasy Control Constructions"
Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego)
Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)
10:30-11:00 "Scope of Negation and Clause Structure in Japanese"
Chung-hye Han, Dennis Storoshenko & Yasuko Sakurai (Simon Fraser University)
11:00-11:30 "The Properties of Determiners: Evidence from Skwxwu7mesh"
Carrie Gillon (University of British Columbia)
11:30-12:00 "Negation and Negative Polarity Items in Berber"
Hamid Ouali (University of Michigan)
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
PARASESSION II: Conceptual Structure & Cognition in Grammatical Theory (370)
1:00-2:00 ADELE GOLDBERG (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"THE LANGUAGE OF CONSTRUCTIONS"
2:00-2:30 "Process-Oriented Grammar Formalisms: Incorporating Constraints from Language Understanding and Acquisition"
Nancy Chang (UC Berkeley)
2:30-3:00 "Constructional Compositionality and Blending: The Case of Polish SLVF Constructions"
Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia)
3:00-3:30 "Embodied Verbal Semantics: Evidence from a Lexical Matching Task"
Shweta Narayan (UC Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute)
Benjamin K. Bergen (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Zachary Weinberg (International Computer Science Institute)
3:30-4:00 "Determinants of the Extent of Recycle in Repair"
Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of New Mexico)
4:15-5:15 ALEC MARANTZ (MIT)
"RENEWING AN ANTI-STRUCTURALIST STANCE"
SPECIAL SESSION II: Morphology of Native American Languages (Dwinelle 370)
5:30-6:00 "Classifiers in Yurok, Wiyot, and Algonquian"
Lisa Conathan (UC Berkeley)
6:00-6:30 "The Grammaticalization of Proximate Verbal Morphology in Omaha"
Ardis Eschenberg (SUNY Buffalo, Nebraska Indian Community College & Omaha Nation Public School)
6:30-7:00 "Case-Marking and Co-Reference in North Baffin Inuit"
James Slotta (University of Chicago)
7:00-8:00 ANTHONY WOODBURY (University of Texas, Austin)
"MORPHOLOGICAL ORTHODOXY IN INUIT-YUPIK-ALEUT"
8:00-11:00 DINNER & PARTY (Dwinelle 370)
SUNDAY, Feb. 15, 2004
9:00-9:55 BRUCE HAYES (UCLA) (Dwinelle 370)
"STOCHASTIC PHONOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: THE CASE OF HUNGARIAN VOWEL HARMONY"
PHONOLOGY & PHONETICS I (Dwinelle 370)
10:00-10:30 "Investigating the 'Hidden' Structure of Phonological Systems"
Egidio Marsico (Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS/Université Lyon 2)
Ian Maddieson (UC Berkeley)
Christophe Coupé (Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS/Université Lyon 2)
François Pellegrino (Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS/Université Lyon 2)
10:30-11:00 "The Evolution of Hierarchical Structure in Language"
J.C. Brown (University of British Columbia)
Chris Golston (California State University, Fresno)
11:00-11:30 "Long-Distance Voicing Agreement: An Evolutionary Perspective"
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia)
11:30-12:00 "The Function of Stem Prominence in Athabaskan"
Joyce McDonough (University of Rochester)
SEMANTICS (Dwinelle 182)
10:00-10:30 "Presupposition and the Distribution of Subjunctive Mood"
Laura Siegel (University of Pennsylvania)
10:30-11:00 "Aspect in American Sign Language: A Typological-Functional Analysis"
Elisa M. Maroney (University of New Mexico)
11:00-11:30 "High and Low Applicatives: Evidence from Lai"
David A. Peterson (Dartmouth College)
11:30-12:00 "Compositional Interaction of Sub-Event Aspectual Markers, -in- and Reduplication, in Tagalog"
Jonathon E. Cihlar (University of Chicago)
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
SPECIAL SESSION III: Morphology of Native American Languages (Dwinelle 370)
1:30-2:30 ANDREW GARRETT (UC Berkeley)
"THE EVOLUTION OF ALGIC VERBAL STEM STRUCTURE: NEW EVIDENCE FROM YUROK"
2:30-3:00 "On the Classification of Wakashan Lexical Suffixes"
Rachel Wojdak (University of British Columbia)
3:00-3:30 "Nominal Constructions and Split-Ergativity in Chol (Mayan)"
Jessica Coon (Reed College)
3:30-4:00 "Possession and Cliticization in Iquito"
Mark Brown (University of Texas, Austin)
4:00-4:30 "On the Two Salish Object Agreement Suffixes"
Kaoru Kiyosawa (Simon Fraser University)
SYNTAX II (Dwinelle 370)
4:45-5:15 "Superiority vs. Reconstruction: A Minimalist Challenge"
Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland)
5:15-5:45 "Sequentiality and Non-Tensed Verbal Coordination in Korean"
Sae-Youn Cho (Honam University)
5:45-6:15 "Assamese Verb Serialization in Functional, Areal-Typological and Diachronic Perspective"
Mark W. Post (University of Oregon)
SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Dwinelle 182)
4:45-5:15 "Devoicing and Its Environments in Perception: ‘Kinki Japanese? Or Tokyo?’"
Midori Y. Morris (Gettysburg College)
5:15-5:45 "'We'll Be Dead by Then!' – Comical Self-Disclosure by Elderly Japanese Women"
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University)
5:45-6:15 "Attribute Networking: Modeling Local Social Practices"
Robin Dodsworth (Ohio State University)
MONDAY, Feb. 16, 2004
9:00-9:55 ELIZABETH HUME (Ohio State University) (Dwinelle 370)
"DECONSTRUCTING MARKEDNESS: A NON-UNIVERSALIST APPROACH"
PHONOLOGY & PHONETICS II (Dwinelle 370)
10:00-10:30 "Comparative Markedness and Opacity in Meskwaki Palatalization"
Thomas Wier (University of Chicago)
10:30-11:00 "Tone-to-Stress and Stress-to-Tone: Ancient Greek Accent Revisited"
Lev Blumenfeld (Stanford University)
11:00-11:30 "The Interaction of Duration and Pitch in Japanese Long Vowels"
Tomoko Kozasa (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
11:30-12:00 "Apical and Laminal Articulation in Hakha Lai"
Ian Maddieson & Ken VanBik (UC Berkeley)
PRAGMATICS & DISCOURSE (Dwinelle 182)
10:00-10:30 "Subject-Agreement Markers in Betta Kurumba"
Gail Coelho (Rice University)
10:30-11:00 "The Interaction of Referentiality and Agreement in Bardi Discourse"
Claire Bowern (Harvard University)
11:00-11:30 "'Ajak of All Trades': Problems with Categorizing Balinese ajak in Discourse"
Edmundo Luna (UC Santa Barbara)
11:30-12:00 "'And That's My Big Area of Interest in Linguistics is Discourse' – The Forms and Functions of the English that's X is Y-Construction"
Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum (Rice University)
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:25 DAN JURAFSKY (Stanford University) (Dwinelle 370)
"A BAYESIAN MODEL OF SENTENCE PROCESSING"
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS & PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (Dwinelle 370)
2:30-3:00 "Serialization of Simultaneity in Mandarin"
Liancheng Chief (SUNY Buffalo)
3:00-3:30 "Association between Repair Functions and Interlocutor Relationship"
Tomoko Takeda (University of Oregon)
3:30-4:00 "A Psycholinguistic Theory of Loanword Adaptations"
Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-CNRS-ENS & Universit
4:00-4:30 "On Case-Markers Occurring in Japanese Temporal Expressions"
Shin-ya Iwasaki (Osaka University)
MORPHOLOGY (Dwinelle 182)
2:30-3:00 "Meta-Constraints: Constraint Interaction and Gender Assignment in Ukrainian"
Tore Nesset (University of Tromsö)
3:00-3:30 "Reduplication and Right-Edge Faithfulness in Amis"
Shih-chi Stella Yeh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
3:30-4:00 "Frequency and Relexicalization in Korean Cluster Codas"
Younjeoung Choi (University of Texas, Arlington)
4:00-4:30 "Zero Marking in French Impersonal Verbs: A Counter-Trend in Clitic Morphologization?"
Bonnie Fonseca-Greber (Bowling Green State University)