BLS 33 Program
Invited Speakers :: Alexandra Aikhenvald :: Joan Bresnan :: Nick Enfield :: Nora England :: Jane Hill :: Roberto Zavala
Multilingualism and Fieldwork Parasession :: 1
Languages of Mexico and Central America Special Session :: 1 :: 2 :: 3
Cognitive :: Phonetics :: Phonetics and phonology :: Phonology and Morphology :: Psycholinguistics and acquisition :: Semantics :: Sociolinguistics :: Syntax 1 :: Syntax 2 :: Syntax and Semantics
Friday, 09 February
| 8-9 |
Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall) |
| 9-11 |
Parasession (370 Dwinelle Hall) Documenting one language in a multi-linguistic community Christina Willis, (University of Texas at Austin) Developing multilingualism in the field: Researchers in multilingual communities Juliet Langman, (University of Texas at San Antonio) -- WITHDRAWN Field notes on the pronominal system of Zhuang Adams Bodomo, (University of Hong Kong/Stanford University) Indonesian money, Balinese people: Code-switching and numerals in Balinese sociopolitical discourse Edmundo Luna, (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
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Phonetics (1229 Dwinelle Hall) When fortis goes "ballistic": The phonetics of consonantal length in Trique Christian DiCanio, (University of California, Berkeley) Variation in voice onset time of stops: The case of Chinese Korean Wenhua Jin, (University of Texas at Arlington) Gradient vowel nasalization as the cues of morphemic boundaries in Southern Min Yingshing Li, (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan) -- WITHDRAWN Tolowa peak pitch alignment Christopher Doty, (University of Oregon) |
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| 11-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:15 |
370 Dwinelle Hall Nicholas Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Title: Language contact and population thinking: semantic convergence in the multilingual uplands of Laos |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-3:15 |
Syntax (145 Dwinelle Hall) Reduplication in Indonesian and the Lexicalist Hypothesis Yosuke Sato and Bradley McDonnell, (Arizona State University) Basque adjectives and the internal structure of DP Xabier Artiagoitia, (University of the Basque Country) -- WITHDRAWN Comparative correlatives -- The case of German Stefan Huber, (University of South Florida, Tampa) |
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Sociolinguistics (370 Dwinelle Hall) Political ideology and language policy in North Korea Jacob Terrell, (University of Hawai'i) Language change in progress: Evidence from computer-mediated communication Natsuko Tsujimura, (Indiana University) Interpreting intra-regional Southern vowel distinctions Valerie Fridland, (University of Nevada, Reno) |
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| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee break |
| 3:45-5:15 |
Semantics (145 Dwinelle Hall) Disjunctive counterfactuals in a Hamblin Semantics Luis Alonso-Ovalle, (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Elaboration, anaphoric reference to events, and coercion Graham Katz, (Stanford University) Instrumental subjects Scott Grimm, (Stanford University) |
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Special Session (370 Dwinelle Hall) The phonetic realization of pitch accent in Huave Keelan Evanini, (University of Pennsylvania) Taking what a language gives us: the reported inclusive/exclusive distinction in Maya-Mam Wesley Collins, (Universidad Ricardo Palma/SIL International) Metaphors of Mayan morphosyntax John Haviland, (University of California, San Diego) -- WITHDRAWN | |
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5:00-5:15 |
Coffee break |
| 5:30-6:30 |
370 Dwinelle Hall Jane Hill (University of Arizona) Title: The Proto-Uto-Aztecan Cultivation Hypothesis: New Linguistic Evidence |
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Saturday, 10 February
| 8:30-9 | Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall) |
| 9-11 | Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition (156 Dwinelle Hall) Toward a substantively biased theory of learning Sara Finley, (Johns Hopkins University) Phonological structure in syllabification: Evidence from dyslexia Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Fusa Katada, (California State University, Fullerton, and Waseda University) Debunking the trochaic bias myth: Evidence from phonological development Yvan Rose and Christine Champdoizeau (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Influences of L1 grammar on children's learning of the past-tense during ESL acquisition Tracy O'Brien, (University of Alberta) -- WITHDRAWN |
| Phonology and Morphology (370 Dwinelle Hall) An explanation of base TETU effects in Kwak'wala reduplication Erin Haynes, (University of California, Berkeley) Distributed reduplication: A case study in Kankanaey, a language of the northern Philippines Bradley McDonnell, (Arizona State University) Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Gabriela Caballero, (University of California, Berkeley) Marjorie Pak, (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| 11-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:15 |
370 Dwinelle Hall
Nora England (University of Texas) Title: Marking Aspect and Inferring Time in Mam |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-3:15 | Special session (370 Dwinelle Hall) Problems in Zapotec tone reconstruction Rosemary Beam de Azcona, (La Trobe University) Argument quantification and qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac David Beck, (University of Alberta) Split coordination in Otomi and the expression of comitativity Enrique L. Palancar, (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro) |
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Syntax and Semantics (156 Dwinelle Hall) Dative external possessor construction in Sidaama Kazuhiro Kawachi, (State University of New York, Buffalo) VP Ellipsis in Japanese Michiko Todokoro Buchanan (University of Minnesota) Three types of relative clause constructions in Korean: A construction-based approach Jong-Bok Kim and Jaehyung Yang, (Kyung Hee University, and Kangham University) | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Semantics (156 Dwinelle Hall) Double-subject sentences, double-dimension semantics William Salmon, (Yale University) The Japanese contrastive topic marker 'wa': A mirror image of EVEN Osamu Sawada, (University of Chicago) Scope disambiguation strategies in ATB wh-questions Barbara Citko, (University of Washington) |
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Historical Linguistics (370 Dwinelle Hall) The (evolutionary) phonology of glottal stops in K'ichean languages Rusty Barrett, (University of Kentucky) From exclusive particle to adversative conjunction: A study on the particle tasol in Tok Pisin Aya Inoue, (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Creole phonology: An alternative to markedness based accounts Whitney Ward, (Yale University) | |
| 5:00-5:15 | Coffee break |
| 5:15-6:15 |
370 Dwinelle Hall
Alexandra Aikhenvald (La Trobe University) Title: Multilingual fieldwork, and emergent grammars |
| 6:15-6:45 | Reception (371 Dwinelle Hall) |
| 6:45-9 | Dinner (370 Dwinelle Hall) |
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Sunday, 11 February
| 8:30-9 | Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall) |
| 9-11 | Cognitive Linguistics (156 Dwinelle Hall) Topics are interesting the way they appear in non-thematic subject positions Jennifer Mack, (Yale University) Laughing our heads off: When metaphor constrains aspect Jaume Mateu and M. Teresa Espinal, (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) The metaphoric grounding of grammar: The modal construction with 'give' in Brazilian Portuguese Maria-Margarida Salomao, (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil) Compass-oriented use of speech and gesture among speakers of Ishigaki Makiko Takekuro, (Waseda University) |
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Special session (145 Dwinelle Hall) Henrik Bergqvist, (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies) Directional markers in Q'anjob'al: Their syntax and meaning B'alam Mateo-Toledo, (University of Texas at Austin) A definite mystery Pamela Munro, (University of California, Los Angeles) Phonemic versus Phonetic Correlates of Vowel Length in Chuxnabán Mixe Carmen Jany, (University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| 11-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | 370 Dwinelle Hall Roberto Zavala (CIESAS-Sureste) Title: Split intransitives and agentivity in Cholan and other Mayan languages |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-3:15 | Syntax (145 Dwinelle Hall) A typology of nominal classifiers in the Eastern Tukanoan languages Wilson Silva and Joshua Bowles, (University of Utah) Object case and event type: Accusative-dative object case alternation in Japanese Shin Fukuda, (University of California, San Diego) Toward a true theory of the periphery: Why some of Culicover's 'odd prepositions' aren't that odd Elizabeth Coppock, (Stanford University) |
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Phonetics and Phonology (156 Dwinelle Hall) The kinematics of sign movement Martha Tyrone, (Haskins Laboratories) On the tone/vowel interaction in Fuzhou Cathryn Donohue, (University of Nevada, Reno) Stress in Punjabi Rajdip Dhillon, (Yale University) | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:30 |
370 Dwinelle Hall Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) Title: Is Syntactic Competence Probabilistic? Evidence from English dative constructions. |
| 4:30-4:45 | Closing remarks |
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We would like to thank everyone who has been involved in organizing this year's meeting. We also express our thanks for the gracious support we have received from the following groups and organizations:
Department of Linguistics
Department of Anthropology
Graduate Assembly
Graduate Division
Division of Social Sciences