The 18th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

The conference will take place in the Communications building on the UW campus (click for map, walking directions from the Watertown Hotel). The tutorials will be in room 202 and the workshop and main conference in room 120. Coffee breaks and the poster session will be near room 202.

Monday, August 22nd: Tutorials (Communications 202)

8:30-9:00	Registration open
9:00-10:30	Johanna Nichols Argument Structure Cross-Linguistically (part 1) [slides]
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Johanna Nichols Argument Structure Cross-Linguistically (part 2)
12:30-14:30	Lunch
14:30-16:00	Nicholas Asher The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Implicatures and Discourse Structure (part 1) [slides]
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-18:00	Nicholas Asher The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Implicatures and Discourse Structure (part 2)

Tuesday, August 23rd: Workshop (Communications 120)

Information Structure and Formal Grammar

8:30-9:00	Registration open
9:00-9:10	Welcome
	Keynote (chair: Jean-Marie Marandin)
9:10-10:10	Mats Rooth (invited talk) New Moves in the Theory of Focus
10:10-10:30	Coffee break
	Session 1 (chair: Nicholas Asher)
10:30-11:10	Jean-Marie Marandin Information Structure and its alternatives: In search of the common features of Subject Inversion in French
11:10-11:50	Caitlin Light The information structure of subject extraposition in Early New High German [slides]
11:50-12:30	Jong-Bok Kim Floating Numeral Classifiers in Korean: A Thematic-Structure Perspective [slides]
12:30-14:30	Lunch break
	Session 2 (chair: Mats Rooth)
14:30-15:10	Sanghoun Song and Emily M. Bender Using Information Structure to Improve Transfer-based MT [slides]
15:10-15:50	Jon Stevens Information Structure as Parallel Tree Building
15:50-16:10	Coffee break
	Session 3 (chair: Jong-Bok Kim)
16:10-16:50	Anne Bjerre Topic and focus in local subject extractions in Danish
16:50-17:30	Anna Gazdik On the Syntax-Discourse Interface in Hungarian
17:30-18:10	Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers Integrating GIVENness into a structured meaning approach in HPSG [slides]

Poster

Sanghoun Song and Varya Gracheva Parallel Text Annotation for Information Structure: Using The Little Prince

Posters will be presented at the main conference poster session.

Wednesday, August 24th: Main Conference (Communications 120)

8:30-9:00	Registration open
9:00-9:10	Welcome
	Session 1 (chair: Jean-Marie Marandin)
9:10-10:10	Tom Wasow (invited talk, joint work with David Clausen) Weak Cross-over and Informativity [slides]
10:10-10:30	Coffee break
	Session 2 (chair: Ivan Sag)
10:30-11:10	Rui Chaves Extraposition and Additive Right Node Raising
11:10-11:50	Robert Levine Linearization and its discontents
11:50-12:30	Michael Hahn Pronominal Null Conjuncts in Arabic [slides]
12:30-14:30	Lunch break
	Session 3 (chair: Olivier Bonami)
14:30-15:10	Doug Ball Morphology in the `Wrong' Place: The Curious Case of Coast Tsimshian Connectives
15:10-15:50	Juliette Thuilier Cases suffixes and postposition in Hungarian
15:50-16:10	Business Meeting
16:10-17:10	Coffee break & Poster session
	Session 4 (chair: Heike Walker)
17:10-17:50	Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells The English Binominal NP Construction: A Construction-Based Perspective [slides]
17:50-18:30	Joanna Nykiel and Ivan Sag Sluicing and Stranding [slides]
20:00	Conference dinner

Thursday, August 25th: Main Conference (Communications 120)

8:30-9:00	Registration open
	Session 5 (chair: Robert Levine)
9:00-9:40	Heike Walker Adjuncts and the HPSG Binding Theory [slides]
9:40-10:20	Tibor Kiss On Autonomous PP Complements in German [slides]
10:20-11:00	Janna Lipenkova Reanalysis of semantically required adjuncts as complements in the Chinese ba-construction
11:00-11:20	Coffee break
	Session 6 (chair: Stefan Müller)
11:20-12:00	Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Bernd Kiefer Converting CCG into Typed Feature Structure Grammars [slides]
12:00-12:40	Joshua Crowgey and Emily M. Bender Analysing Interacting Phenomena: Word Order and Negation in Basque [slides]
12:40-14:30	Lunch break
	Session 7 (chair: Rui Chaves)
14:30-15:10	Bjarne Ørsnes and Stefan Müller Wh-Extraction and Expletives in Danish and Yiddish - an HPSG Approach
15:10-15:50	Andrew Wetta A Construction-based Cross-linguistic Analysis of V2 Word Order
15:50-16:30	Akio Hasegawa and Jean-Pierre Koenig Focus particles, secondary meanings, and Lexical Resource Semantics: The case of Japanese shika
16:30-16:50	Coffee Break
	Session 8 (chair: Jean-Pierre Koenig)
16:50-17:30	Katya Alahverdzhieva and Alex Lascarides An HPSG Approach to Synchronous Deixis and Speech [slides]
17:30-18:30	Olivier Bonami (invited talk) Reconstructing HPSG morphology

Poster

George Aaron Broadwell Surrogate possession in Copala Triqui