BLS 32 Program

Friday :: Saturday :: Sunday

Stephen R. Anderson :: Claire Bowern :: Susan Goldin-Meadow :: José I. Hualde :: Beth Levin :: Laura Michaelis :: Andrew Pawley :: Norvin Richards :: Walt Wolfram

Argument Structure Parasession :: 1 :: 2

Oceania Special Session :: 1 :: 2 :: 3

Cognitive :: Discourse and pragmatics :: Phonetics and phonology 1 :: Phonetics and phonology 2 :: Morphology :: Psycholinguistics and acquisition :: Semantics 1 :: Semantics 2 :: Sociolinguistics :: Syntax 1 :: Syntax 2

Room 1 = 371 Dwinelle Hall, Room 2 = 33 Dwinelle Hall

Friday, 10 February

8-9	Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
9-10	Laura Michaelis, U. Colorado, Boulder Complementation by construction
10-12	Room 1: Parasession Ann Bunger and Jeffrey Lidz, Northwestern U. and U. Maryland Constrained flexibility in the extension of novel causative verbs Maria Mercedes Piñango, Jennifer Mack, and Ray Jackendoff, Yale U. and Tufts U. Semantic combinatorial processes in argument structure: Evidence from light verbs Donna B. Gerdts and Thomas Hukari, Simon Fraser U. and U. Victoria A closer look at Salish intransitive/transitive alternations Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Stanford U. The states in changes of state
10-12	Room 2: Sociolinguistics Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Stanford U. Methods for the study of the social structure of linguistic variation Anna Babel and Raomir Avila, U. Michigan The things that nobodies tell us: Evidentiality and social meaning in Valley Spanish Jean-Philippe Magué, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Apparent time study of semantic changes Makiko Takekuro, U. California, Berkeley From keigo (honorifics) to keii-hyougen (respect expressions): Linguistic ideologies in contemporary Japan
12-1	Lunch
1-2	Susan Goldin-Meadow, U. Chicago Gesture's role in creating and learning language
2-3:30	Room 1: Phonetics and phonology Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe College Light verb voicing and Japanese phonological lexicon Michael R. Marlo, U. Michigan The OCP and pinball H-shift in Lunyala verbs Aaron F. Kaplan, U. California, Santa Cruz Prosodic tone with segmental pitch
2-3:30	Room 2: Psycholinguistics and acquisition Jason Brenier, Liz Coppock, Laura Michaelis, and Laura Staum, U. Colorado, Boulder and Stanford U. ISIS: It's not a disfluency, but how do we know that? Meylysa Tseng, Jung-Hee Kim, and Benjamin Bergen, U. Hawaii, Manoa Can we simulate negation? The simulation effects of negation in English intransitive sentences I. Arnon, P. Hofmeister, T. F. Jaeger, I. A. Sag, and N. Snider, Stanford U. Processing accounts for gradiance in acceptability: The case of English multiple wh-questions
3:30-3:45	Coffee break
3:45-5:15	Room 1: Phonetics and phonology Christian DiCanio, U. California, Berkeley On non-optimal laryngeal timing: The case of Trique Gwanhi Yun, U. Arizona The effects of lexical frequency and stress on coarticulation Brenda Nicodemus and Caroline L. Smith, U. New Mexico Prosody and utterance boundaries in ASL interpretation
3:45-5:15	Room 2: Morphology T. Florian Jaeger, Stanford U. Optional that-omission: Syntactic variation or allomorphy? Christopher Straughn, U. Chicago Noun incorporation and case: Evidence from Sakha (Yakut) Martha Mendoza, Florida Atlantic U. Spatial language in Tarascan: Body parts, shape and the grammar of location
5:15-5:30	Coffee break
5:30-6:30	José I. Hualde, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Basque, Palenquero, and the typology of word-prosodic systems
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Saturday, 11 February

8:30-9	Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
9-10	Stephen R. Anderson, Yale U. Verb-second, subject clitics, and impersonals in Surmiran (Rumantsch)
10-12	Room 1: Syntax Kjersti G. Stensrud, U. Chicago Unergative verbs in Norwegian intransitive expletive constructions Johanna Nichols, U. California, Berkeley A case of rare fluid intransitivity in Europe: Russian Franc Marusic and Rok Zaucer, U. Stony Brook/Politehnika Nova Gorica and U. Ottawa On the complement of the intensional transitive want Serkan Sener, U. Connecticut Right adjunction in the right peripheries
10-12	Room 2: Cognitive Karen Sullivan, U. California, Berkeley Frame-based constraints on lexical choice in metaphor Josef Ruppenhofer, U. California, Berkeley/International Computer Science Institute Fictive motion: Construction, not just construal Kevin Moore, San Jose State U. A metaphor of static temporal "location" in Wolof and English: Metonymy, motivation, and morphosyntax Tess Wood, U. California, Berkeley Plurality of events: Parallels between language and perception
12-1	Lunch
1-2	Andrew Pawley, The Australian National University On the argument structure of phrasal predicates in Kalam and other languages of the Trans New Guinea family
2-3:30	Room 1: Special session Marian Klamer and Frantisek Kratochvil, Leiden U. The role of animacy in Teiwa and Abui (Papuan) Olcher Sebastian Fedden, U. Melbourne, National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea Composite word tone in Mian compounds Catherine R. Fortin, U. Michigan Reconciling meng- and NP movement in Indonesian
2-3:30	Room 2: Semantics Dmitry Levinson, Stanford U. Polarity sensitivity in inflectional morphology Chris Taylor, Rice U. The 'perfect' converb? Semantically-related functions of the Sinhala conjunctive participle David Y. Oshima, Stanford U. GO and COME revisited: What serves as a reference point?
3:30-3:45	Coffee break
3:45-5:15	Room 1: Special session Frances Ajo, U. Hawaii, Manoa WITHDRAWN Phonemic vowel length in Makasae: Evidence from acoustic measures and reduplicants Ian Maddieson, U. California, Berkeley Areal and typological patterns in the phonology of the languages of Oceania
3:45-5:15	Room 2: Semantics John Beavers and Itamar Francez, Stanford U. Several problems for predicate decompositions William Salmon, Yale U. Compromising positions and polarity items Benjamin Bruening and Thuan Tran, U. Delaware Wh-conditionals in Chinese and Vietnamese: Against unselective binding
5:15-5:30	Coffee break
5:30-6:30	Norvin Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tagalog and the syntax of long-distance extraction
6:30-7	Reception
7-9	Dinner
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Sunday, 12 February

8:30-9	Registration and coffee (370 Dwinelle Hall)
9-10	Claire Bowern, Rice U. Australian complex predicates
10-12	Room 1: Syntax Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School Re-binding and the derivation of parallelism domains Roberta D'Alessandro and Ian Roberts, U. Cambridge Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter Pawel Rutkowski, Warsaw U./Yale U. The syntax of floating intensifiers in Polish and its implications for the Determiner Phrase hypothesis Luis Eguren, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Non-canonical uses of the article in Basque
10-12	Room 2: Special session Erich Round, Yale U. Why nominal roots in proto-Tangkic never have final apical obstruents Keira Gebbie Ballantyne Social interaction trumps spatial distance: Preliminary evidence from Yapese tripartite person-based deixis Catherine Macdonald, U. Toronto A hierarchical feature geometry of the Tongan possessive paradigm Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols, U. Leipzig and U. California, Berkeley Oceania and the Pacific Rim linguistic area
12-1	Lunch
1-2	Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State U. The public face of language diversity
2-4	Room 1: Parasession Eva H. Mok and John E. Bryant, U. California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute A best-fit approach to productive elision of arguments Tyler Peterson, U. British Columbia The morpho-semantics of causation in the Interior Tsimshian Jóhanna Barðdal, U. Bergen/U. California, Berkeley Predicting the productivity of argument structure constructions Mark Donohue, Centre for Research on Language Change, Australian National University Argument structure and adjuncts: Perspectives from northern New Guinea
2-4	Room 2: Discourse and pragmatics Joshua Raclaw, U. Colorado Punctuation as social action: The ellipsis as a discourse marker in computer-mediated communication Susan Buescher, U. New Mexico An analysis of the use of cognitive verbs in American English conversation Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Deskewing the Searlean picture: A new speech act ontology for linguistics
4-4:15	Coffee break
4:15-5:15	Beth Levin, Stanford U. First objects and datives: Two of a kind?
5:15-5:30	Closing remarks
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