11-12 February 2012

PROGRAM

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ABSTRACTS

Invited Thematic Session Speakers:

  • Mark Donohue (Australian National University): Studying Contact without Studying the Languages Involved [pdf]
  • Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin): On Linguistic Diversity and Large-Scale Contact Effects: The Case of Amazonia [pdf]
  • Victor Friedman (University of Chicago): Languages are Wealth: The Sprachbund as Linguistic Capital [pdf]
  • Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan): Contact-Induced Language Change and Typological Congruence [pdf]

    • Invited General Session Speakers:

  • John Esling (University of Victoria): The Articulatory Function of the Larynx and the Origins of Speech [pdf]
  • Dominique Sportiche, (UCLA & ENS-Paris): Binding Domains [pdf]

    • Saturday Feb. 11, 9-11am

    Syntax I

  • Giorgio Iemmolo: Are dislocated direct objects clause-external? Evidence from Differential Object Marking systems [pdf]
  • Priyanka Biswas: Reanalyzing the default classifier in Bangla as a degree function [pdf]
  • Rebekah Baglini: Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: evidence from Wolof [pdf]

    • Thematic session I: language contact

  • Andrew Dombrowski: Multiple relative marking in 19th century West Rumelian Turkish [pdf]
  • Nadine Borchardt: Color categories in language contact: "Pygmy" hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers [pdf]
  • Donna Gerdts: On the (lack of) impact of English on Halkomelem Salish [pdf]
  • Nate Maddux: Phonological adaptation of Spanish loanwords in Salasaka Kichwa: Integration strategies and the effects of bilingualism [pdf]

    • Saturday Feb. 11, 2:15-3:45pm

    Pragmatics

  • Yong-cheol Lee: Prosodic correlation between the focus particle ocik 'only' and focus/GIVENness in Korean [pdf]
  • David Y. Oshima: Iconicity, implicature, and the manner interpretation of coordinating structure: Through comparison of English and French [pdf]
  • Linda Konnerth: Additive focus and additional functions of Karbi (Tibeto-Burman) =ta 'also; even; etc.' [pdf]

    • Phonetics

  • Gwanhi Yun: Prosody-based word recognition for L2 speakers [pdf]
  • Marc Garellek, Patricia Keating and Christina Esposito: Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception [pdf]
  • Yukiko Sugiyama: Perceiving pitch accent in the absence of F0 [pdf]

    • Saturday Feb. 11, 5-7pm

    Sociolinguistics

  • David Eddington and Matthew Savage: Where are the mountains in Utah? [pdf]
  • Tridha Chatterjee: Bilingual Compound Verbs: So what's new about them? [pdf]

    • Psycholinguistics

  • Ying-Shing Li: Lexical effects in phonemic neutralization in Mandarin Chinese [pdf]
  • Katya Pertsova: Logical complexity in morphological learning [pdf]

    • Historical Linguistics

  • Stefanie Ramos Bierge: From demonstrative to nominalizer: the suffix -gai in Northern Tepehuan [pdf]
  • Tatiana Nikitina: "External" perspective in conceptualization of spatial relations [pdf]
  • Yi-Yang Cheng: Verbal Reduplication and Grammaticalization: A Study of Mandarin VV-kan and V-kankan Constructions [pdf]
  • Aimee Lawrence: Reconstruction of Proto-Kampa Verbal Morphology [pdf]

    • Sunday Feb. 12, 9:40-11:40am

    Semantics I

  • Zhiguo Xie: Weak generic sentences: partitioning and comparison [pdf]
  • Sylvia L. Reed: Beyond states and events: a semantics for verbs of spatial configuration [pdf]
  • Nicole Palffy-Muhoray: Future Reference in Hungarian [pdf]

    • Thematic session II: language contact

  • Justin Spence: Code switching and mixes language genesis in Tiwi [pdf]
  • Keri Miller: Language Contact Influence on the Morphological Typology of the Arabic of Bukhara [pdf]
  • Harald Hammarström: Inferring Bilateral Contact Scenarios: An Arawak Case Study [pdf]
  • Gregory A. Key: Differential Object Marking in Turkic and Persian as a Contact Phenomenon [pdf]

    • Sunday Feb. 12, 1:45-3:45pm

    Cognitive Linguistics

  • Yuki-Shige Tamura: Epistemicity and Deixis: Perspectives from Central Alaskan Yup'ik [pdf]
  • Hiromi Oda: On the Porcess of Establishing Cognitive Mappings in Artificial Gestural Dialogue Experiments [pdf]
  • Tiffany Ying-Lu Lin and I-Hsuan Chen: How Visual Perception links to Semantics: Image Schemas in the art of Chinese Calligraphy [pdf]
  • Kristina Štrkalj-Despot, Julia Ostanina-Olszewska and Inna Skrynnikova: Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Metaphoric Conceptions of DUSHA ('soul') in Slavic (Russian, Polish and Croatian) [pdf]

    • Phonology

  • Eva Zimmerman: Templates as affixation of segment-sized units: the case of Southern Sierra Miwok [pdf]
  • Matthew Faytak: Logical sonority scales and turbulence in fricative-vowel languages [pdf]
  • Darya Kavitskaya: Opacity in Crimean Tatar: vowel harmony, syncope, palatalization [pdf]
  • Jackson Lee: The representation of contour tones in Cantonese [pdf]

    • Sunday Feb. 12, 5-6:30pm

    Morphology

  • Doris Ching-Jung Yen and Loren Billings: The cluster-internal ordering of clitics in Kavalan (East Formosan, Austronesian) [pdf]
  • Kimi Akita: Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese [pdf]
  • Ryo Otoguro: Constructional paradigm in constraint-based morphosyntax: a case of Japanese verb inflection [pdf]

    • Syntax and Semantics (II)

  • Tomoko Ishizuka: The extra-thematic passive in Japanese [pdf]
  • Vincent Homer: As simple as it seems [pdf]
  • Juwon Lee: Multiple interpretations and constraints of causative serial verb constructions in Korean [pdf]