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>Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:25:42 -0700
>From: Andrew Carnie <carnie@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Subject: University of Arizona: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
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>Comments: To: Christopher M Ruhlen <cmruhlen@U.Arizona.EDU>,
> hsmith@U.Arizona.EDU, patrickr@U.Arizona.EDU
>
>The Department of Linguistics is proud to announce that it is sponsoring
>this year's West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. April 8-11th.
>
>Attached is a tentative program:
>
>
>________________________________________________________________
>
>West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
>(SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
>
>Thursday April 8th
>6-8pm Registration, Plaza Hotel
>
>Friday April 9th
>7:00am  Registration, Student Union
>8:15 am Welcoming remarks  Senior Ballroom
>
>
>Session A: Senior Ballroom
>8:30    How to get a free ride? Additional scrambling
>        effects and the principle of minimal compliance.
>        Cedrix Boeckx & Koji Sugisaki, UConn
>9:00    Resurrecting scrambling
>        John F. Bailyn, SUNY at Stonybrook
>9:30    Evidence for feature-driven A-scrambling
>        Martha McGinnis, UPenn
>Session B: Rincon Room
>8:30    Phonetic basis of coronal phonotactics
>        Yoonjung Kang, MIT
>9:00    Consonant clusters in Tsou and their theoretical
>        implications
>        Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn
>9:30    Obstruent neutralization in Andalusian Spanish
>        Chip Gerfen, UNC at Chapel Hill
>
>
>10:00-10:15 Break
>
>
>Session C: Rincon Room
>10:15   A syntactic derivation of Semitic verbs
>        Edit Doron, Hebrew UJerusalem
>10:45   Object asymmetries and their
>        morphophonological reflexes
>        Amanda Seidl, UPenn
>11:15   The inadequacy of the root
>        Adam Sherman UCSC
>
>
>Session D: Senior Ballroom
>10:15   Structural markedness and minimalist checking
>        theory
>        Susana Bejar, UToronto
>10:45   Phrase-linking meets minimalist syntax
>        Hans-Martin Gaertner UPotsdam
>11:15   Right node raising and the LCA
>        Chris Wilder, ZAS Berlin
>
>11:45-1:30 Lunch Break
>
>
>Session E: Senior Ballroom
>1:30    Language change and the verb second position in
>        Early Irish
>        Cathal Doherty, Univ College Dublin
>2:00    Expletives and existentials in Early Middle
>        English
>        Alexander Williams, UPenn
>2:30    Binding domains and minimalist features
>        Elly van Gelderen, ASU
>
>Session F: room 256
>1:30    The asymmetry of base reduplicant identity
>        Liina Pylk�nen, MIT
>2:00    Unfaithful bases and syncope in Tohono
>        O'odham reduplication.
>        Colleen Fitzgerald, SUNY at Buffalo
>2:30    A-Templatic reduplication in Thompson River
>        Salish
>        Gail Coelho, UTexas at Austin
>
>
>3-3:30 Coffee Break
>
>3:30-6:00 Special Session or Plenary Talk (to be announced-subject to
funding)
>
>6:00-7:30 Dinner Break
>
>
>Session G: Senior Ballroom
>7:30    Predicative and non predicative verb particle
>        constructions and the role of aspect
>        Mikael Vinka, McGill.
>8:00    Raising without infinitives and the nature of
>        agreement
>        Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS Berlin
>        Elena Anagnostopoulou, UCrete
>8:30    Multiple I-checking, the EPP and inverse voice in
>        Innu-aim�n
>        Phil Branigan & Marguerite MacKenzie, MUN
>
>Session H: Room 256
>7:30    Psych-adjectives and semantic selection
>        Idan Landau, MIT
>8:00    Extraposition and scope: a case for overt QR
>        Danny Fox and Jon Nissenbaum, MIT
>8:30    Durative adverbials for result states
>        Christopher Pi��n, Uduesseldorf
>9:00    Tough movement and semantic connectivity
>        Mike Calcagno, Tuebingen
>
>
>
>Saturday, April 10th
>
>
>Session I: Arizona Ballroom
>9:00    On multiple Wh-movement: weak crossover, D-
>        linking, and the third wh-phrase effect.
>        John D. Lewis, McGill
>9:30    Cyclic spell-out and the Comp-T effects
>        Toru Ishii, Kitami Inst Tech
>10:00   What is the true nature of successive cyclic
>        movement?
>        M�ire Noonan, YorkU
>
>
>Session J: Room 256
>9:00    A unified mora account of Chuukese
>        Jennifer S. Muller, OSU.
>9:30    Where and why do CVC syllables count as heavy
>        Mee-Jin Ahn, UIUC
>10:00   The phonology of foot and syllable structure: evidence
>        from Amazonia
>        Daniel Everett, UPitt
>
>10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
>
>
>Session K: Arizona Ballroom
>10:45   Long-distance agreement in Tsez
>        Eric Potsdam, Yale & Maria Polinsky, UCSD
>11:15   A reconsideration of unaccusativity in  ergative
>        alternations
>        Makinari Matsuoka        McGill
>11:45   Case features and case particles
>        Dong-Whee Yang, Seoul NatU
>
>Session L: Room 256
>10:45   Two views of Polish reflexives
>        Anna Lubowicz, UMass
>11:15   Unified semantics of mosts
>        Katsuhiko Yabushita, Naruto Univ of Education
>11:45   Manner in dative alternation
>        Manfred Krifka, UTexas, Austin
>
>
>
>12:15-12:30   Business Meeting
>12:30-2:00  Lunch Break
>
>
>Session M: Arizona Ballroom
>2:00    Modal verbs must be raising verbs
>        Susi Wurmbrand McGill & UQAM
>2:30    So-called sluicing in Japanese and some
>        implications
>        Teruhiko Fukaya & Hajime Hoji USC
>3:00    Temporal adjectives and the structure of
>        possessive DPs
>        Richard Larson & Christine Cho, SUNY at
>        Stonybrook
>
>
>Session N: Room 256
>2:00    Same edge alignment with opposite edge effects
>        Nathan Sanders UCSC
>2:30    Interaction of tone and stress in Seoul and
>        Chonnam Korean
>        Eon-Suk Ko, UPenn
>3:00    A multiplanar account of voice-tone interaction
>        Mary Bradshaw, OSU
>
>
>3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
>
>
>Session O: Arizona Ballroom
>3:45    Verbal classifiers as heads of functional
>        projections: Evidence from ASL
>        Diane Brentari & Elena Benedicto,  PurdueU.
>4:15    Inflection is syntactic: Evidence form Salish
>        possessives
>        Henry Davis, Martina Wiltschko, UBC
>4:45    The morphosemantics of object case in Kannada
>        Jeffrey Lidz, UPenn
>
>Session P: Room 256
>3:45    Subject and object coordination in HPSG
>        Michelle Moosally, UHouston-Downtown
>4:15    Combien-extraction in dynamic montague
>        grammar.
>        Martin Honcoop, UCLA
>4:45    A comprehensive LMT analysis of three
>        Hungarian participles
>        Tibor Laczko, Stanford/KossuthU
>
>
>3:30-5:45 Poster Session Arizona Gallery
>8:00 -?  Party
>
>Sunday April 11
>
>9-11:30  Special Ken Hale Session Senior Ballroom
>(Judith Aissen, Eloise Jelinek, Mary Willie, Ted Fernald, Ken Hale, Jane
Hill, Lynn Nichols, Keren Rice, Lexlie Saxon, Carlota Smith, Peggy Speas,
Ofelia Zapeda)
>
>11:30-11:45 Break
>
>
>Session Q: Senior Ballroom
>11:45   Compensatory lengthening as coalescence:
>        analysis and implications
>        Meghan Sumner SUNY at Stonybrook
>12:15   At-will spoonerisms and vowel length in Finnish
>        Heli Harrikari, UMass/UHelsinki
>
>
>Session R: Rincon Room
>11:45   Properties as arguments
>        Miriam Englehardt, MIT
>12:15   Indexical pronouns as bound variables
>        Murat Kural UCI & Georges Tsoulas UYork
>
>ALTERNATE SPEAKERS
>SYNTAX:
>Subject and adjunct islands asymmetries: evidence from syntactic satiation
>Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn
>Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms
>Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender,  StanfordU
>
>PHONOLOGY:
>Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based approach.
>Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU.
>Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese.
>Jennifer L. Smith, UMass
>
>SEMANTICS:
>Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted quantification.
>Josep Quer, UAutonoma Barcelona
>
>POSTER SESSION
>
>
>SYNTAX:
>Subject and adjunct islands asymmetries: evidence from
>        syntactic satiation
>        Kazuko Hiramatsu, UConn
>Constructions and the distribution of predicative idioms
>        Susanne Riehemann & Emily Bender,  StanfordU
>Sluicing as PF deletion
>        Sandra Stjepanovic, UConn
>Possessor raising and causatives: a minimalist account of
>        structural and inherent case.
>        Juan Carlos Castillo, UMaryland
>On adjunct Wh-NPs
>        Masao Ochi & Tien-Hsin Hsin, UConn
>What diachrony tells about English tough-constructions
>        Gwang-Yoon Goh, Ohio State U.
>Syntax, Semantics, chicken and egg: remarks on the
>        development of English modal auxiliaries
>        Kieran Snyder, UPenn
>Raising in Icelandic
>        Dianne Jonas, YaleU
>Reconstruction and linearity in long-distance cleft
>        constructions
>        Mika Kizu & Hidekazu Tanaka, McGill
>The Yes-No question clitic li placement in Russian
>        Elena Rudnitskaya, CUNY
>Clitic Combinations
>        Francisco Ordonez & Arhonto Terzi, UIUC
>Locative inversion and optional featuers
>        Jeong-Seok Kim, KoreaU
>That-trace effects: a minimalist approach
>        Adam Szczegeilniak, HarvardU
>
>PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY:
>Typology of consonantal weakening in a constraint based
>        approach.
>        Seung-hoon Shin, DongseoU.
>Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese.
>        Jennifer L. Smith, UMass
>The behavior of the velar nasal and syllabification
>        Chin Wan Chung & Byung Jin Lim, Indiana
>Constraining a constraint-based theory
>        Daniel Currie Hall, UToronto
>Not-so-fixed segmentism in reduplication: dissimilation and
>        respecification in the Turkish emphatic partial
>        reduplication.
>        Alan Yu, UCBerkeley
>Bare-consonant reduplication in Yokuts
>        Sean Hendricks, UArizona
>Diminutive bare consonant reduplication in Stl'atl'imcets
>        Sonya Bird, UArizona
>Featural Optimality Theory: a computational model
>        Andrea Heiberg, UArizona
>Empty C-slots revisited: the case of the verbal agreement
>        system of Panth�re Limbu.
>        Matthew Richardson, YaleU
>A correspondence theory of morpheme order
>        Paul de Lacy, UMass
>Size restrictors and prosodic structure in the acquisition of
>        stress
>        Suzanne Curtin, USC
>Head-dependent asymmetries and the root-affix
>        metaconstraint.
>        Anthi Revithiadou, UMass
>
>
>SEMANTICS & SYNTAX/SEMANTICS:
>Non-logical if and the syntax-semantics mapping of restricted quantification.
>        Josep Quer, UAutonoma Barcelona
>Determiner copulas in conditionals and relatives
>        Barbara Citko, SUNY at Stonybrook/MIT
>The effects of focus on argument structure: depictives. vs resultatives
>        Bokyung Noh, UTexas at Austin
>The focusing negative mhaih in Cantonese-Chese: a look at contrastive and
     metalinguistic negation.
>Juliet Wai-hong Du, UTexas at Austin
>        Pair-quantificational operator Tokoro-clause
>        Hironobu Hosoi, McGill
>
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