February 4-6, 2000
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Royce Hall, Room 314
8:45 - 9:00
Introductory Remarks
9:00 - 9:30
Complementation and veridicality: a comparison between Greek and English
Anna Roussou, University of Cyprus
Ian Roberts, University of Stuttgart
9:30 - 10:00
Expletives as Features
Joachim Sabel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
10:00 - 10:30
V1 Phenomena and the Syntax/Prosody Interface
David Adger, University of York
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 11:15
Aspect and Partitive Objects in Finnish
Karine Megerdoomian, USC and CRL, New Mexico State University
11:15 - 11:45
Determiner Sharing
Vivian Lin, MIT
11:45 - 12:15
Noun Phrase Word Order and Definiteness in Japanese
Tomomi Kakegawa, Michigan State University
12:15 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Adverbial quantification over (interrogative) complements
Alexander Williams, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 - 3:00
On Inclusive Questions
Richard Zuber, CNRS, Paris
3:00 - 3:30
Temporal Interpretation of Participles
Kiyomi Kusumoto, Harvard University
3:30 - 3:45
Break
3:45 - 4:15
Scope Dependencies and the structure of Headed Relative Clauses
Calixto Aguero-Bautista, MIT
4:15 - 4:45
The Interaction of Obligatory and Non-obligatory Control in Rationale Clauses
Manuel Espanol-Echevarria, Université Laval
4:45 - 5:15
Deriving Adversity
Liina Pylkkänen, MIT
5:15 - 5:45
Break
5:45 - 7:15
How Movement, Binding and Agreement are Related
Invited Speaker: Richard Kayne, NYU
Session B: Friday, February 4
Royce 154
Workshop on Acquisition
2:00-2:45
Auxiliary Insertion in Child Dutch
Shalom Zuckerman, Roelien Bastiaanse, and Ron van Zonneveld, University of Groningen
2:45-3:30
Auxiliaries, Features and the Grammar of Inversion in the
Acquisition of English Yes/No Questions
Lynn Santelmann, Portland State University
Stephanie Berk, University of Connecticut
Barbara Lust, Cornell University
3:30-3:45
break
3:45-4:30
Auxiliaries and Topic Drop in Child English
Ken Wexler, MIT
Jenny Ganger, University of Pittsburgh
4:30-5:00
general question and discussion period
Session C: Saturday, February 5
Royce Hall, Room 362
Phonology
9:00 - 9:30
Predicting Irregularity in Tamil Verbs
Bhavani Saravanan, University of Utah
9:30 - 10:00
Ternary Rhythm Through Binary Footing in Estonian
Steve McCartney, University of Texas at Austin
10:00 - 10:30
Opaque Consonant Gradation in Finnish: The Case of Possessive Suffixes
Heli Harrikari, University of Helsinki
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 11:15
Perceptual Distinctiveness in Reduplication
Andrew Wedel, UC Santa Cruz
11:15 - 11:45
Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Yoruba: the Seeds of ATR Vowel Harmony
Marek Przezdziecki, Cornell University
11:45 - 12:15
The Phonetic Basis for Tonal Melody Mapping in Mende and Elsewhere
Jie Zhang, UCLA
12:15 - 2:00
Lunch / Business Meeting
2:00 - 2:30
Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints
Eric Bacovic, Penn State
Colin Wilson, Johns Hopkins
2:30 - 3:00
Long-Distance Consonantal Identity Effects
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California
3:00 - 3:30
Arguments for a rhyme-based account of stressed syllable IDENTITY in reduplication
Nicole Nelson, Rutgers University
3:30 - 3:45
Break
3:45 - 4:15
Reduplication in Southern Paiute and Correspondence Theory
Naomi Gurevich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:15 - 4:45
Dynamic versus static phonotactic constraints account for over-, under-, and regular application
in reduplicative and truncatory morphology
Daniel Silverman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:45 - 5:15
The base(s) of double reduplications
Suzanne Urbanczyk, University of Calgary
5:15 - 5:45
Break
5:45 - 7:15
Phonological Derivations in Harmonic Serialism
Invited Speaker: John McCarthy, UMass, Amherst
Session D: Saturday, February 5
Royce Hall, Room 314
Syntax and Semantics
9:00 - 9:30
Repair-Driven Movement and Local Optimization
Fabian Heck, Universität Stuttgart
Gereon Müller, Universität Tübingen
9:30 - 10:00
Contrastive Left Dislocation, Reconstruction and Movement
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Maryland
10:00 - 10:30
Free Adjunct Free Relatives
Roumyana Izvorski, Georgetown University/USC
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 11:15
Instrumental Case and Verb Raising in the Russian Copula
Ora Matushansky, MIT
11:15 - 11:45
Agreement, Shells and Focus
Andrew Simpson, SOAS
Zoe Wu, USC
11:45 - 12:15
The Structure of Agreement Failure in Lebanese Arabic
Peter Hallman, UCLA
12:15 - 2:00
Lunch / Business Meeting
2:00 - 2:30
The Two Verbs Begin, Again
Maria Polinsky, UCSD
Eric Potsdam, Yale University
2:30 - 3:00
The Loss of the Verb Second Constraint in Middle English
Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 - 3:30
Passive and Passive-Like Constructions in Hmong
Cassandre Creswell, University of Pennsylvania
Kieran Snyder, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 - 3:45
Break
3:45 - 4:15
ACD in AP
Richard Larson, SUNY – Stony Brook
4:15 - 4:45
Quantification in Blackfoot
Jennifer Glougie, University of British Columbia
4:45 - 5:15
Scope Ambiguity and "Scrambling"
J.-R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California
Session E: Sunday, February 6
Royce Hall, Room 314
Syntax and Acquisition
9:00 - 9:30
Syntactic Wh-Movement and Wh-in-situ in Inuktitut
Carrie Gillon, University of British Columbia
9:30 - 10:00
The Syntax of Focus and Wh-in-situ: Evidence for Covert Phrasal Movement
Jon Nissenbaum, MIT
10:00 - 10:30
Multiple Wh-Questions and Multiple Specifiers
Hidekazu Tanaka, University of British Columbia
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 11:15
An Argument against Multiple Specifiers
Jan-Wouter Zwart, NOW/University of Groningen
11:15 - 11:45
Resultatives Result from the Compounding Parameter:
On the Acquisitional Correlation between Resultatives and N-N Compounds in Japanese
Koji Sugisaki, University of Connecticut
Miwa Isobe, Keio University
11:45 - 12:15
The Acquisition of the English Copula
Misha Becker, UCLA
Japanese Attributive Adjectives are not Relative Clauses
Hiroko Yamakido, SUNY-Stony Brook
(Anti)-Reconstruction Effects in Free Relatives
Barbara Citko, SUNY-Stony Brook
No More "EPP"
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Maryland
John Drury, University of Maryland
Juan Carlos Castillo, University of Iowa
On the (In)ability of Prenominal Adjectives to Take Complements
Antonia Androutsopoulou, UCLA
Control in Basque
Itziar San Martin, University of Maryland at College Park
Donkey Anaphora as NP-Ellipsis
Paul Elbourne, MIT
On the Constituent Structure of Catalan Verbs
Isabel Oltra-Massuet, UAB
Constraints on Geminates in Buginese and Selyarese
Robert Podesya, Stanford University