WCCFL 25 Conference Program
Friday, April 28, 2006
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8:00 - 8:45 |
Registration and light breakfast |
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8:45 - 9:00 |
Opening remarks in HUB 310 |
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Location |
HUB 310 |
HUB 108 |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Syntactic Doubling and the Encoding of Voice – Roberta
D'Alessandro & Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) |
Evaluative Predicates: An Adjunct Control Analysis –Laura Kertz (UCSD) |
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9:30 - 10:00 |
Pieces of the Perfect in German and Older English – Thomas
McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart) |
Generalized Domain Widening – Jan Anderssen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Dative Alternation in Tamil: A Non-Derivational Approach – Sandhya Sundaresan (University
of Pennsylvania) |
Backward Object Control: Against an Empty Category Analysis – Eric Potsdam (University
of Florida) |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee break |
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10:45 - 12:00 |
INVITED TALK: Maria Polinsky (UCSD) Empty categories in Korean: Using processing data to decide among theoretical analyses in HUB 310 |
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12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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Location |
HUB 310 |
HUB 108 |
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1:30 - 2:00 |
The Categorical Status of (anti)(anti)-Agreement – Noureddine
Elouazizi (LUCL/Leiden University) & Martina Wiltschko (UBC) |
Learning Phonotactic Grammars from Surface Forms
– Jeffrey Heinz (UCLA) |
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2:00 - 2:30 |
Unaccusative Adjectives and the Structure of VP – Joseph
Sabbagh (McGill
University) |
Using Entropy to Learn OT Grammars From Surface Forms
Alone – Jason Riggle (University of Chicago) |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
On the Units of Spell-Out and Long Distance Agreement
– Ivan Ortega-Santos (University of Maryland,
College Park) |
The Emergence of the Comparatively Unmarked – Martin
Krmer (University of Tromsæ) |
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3:00 - 3:15 |
Coffee break |
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Location |
HUB 310 |
HUB 108 |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
Deletion Versus Pro-Forms – Mark Baltin (NYU) |
Synchronizing Modalities: A Model for Synchronization of Gesture and Speech as
Evidenced by American Sign Language – Sarah Churng (UCLA) |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Lexical Evidentiality and the Distribution of OC PRO
– Fujii Tomohiro (University of Maryland, College Park) |
Visible Prosody:
Spreading and Stacking of Non-Manual Markers – Roland Pfau (University
of Amsterdam) |
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4:15 - 4:45 |
When a Complement PP Goes Missing: A Study on the Licensing of Swiping
– Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono & Masaya Yoshida (University
of Maryland, College Park) |
Subject Preference in the Processing of Relative Clauses
in Chinese – Chien-Jer Charles Lin & Thomas Bever (University
of Arizona) |
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4:45 - 5:00 |
Coffee break |
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Location |
HUB 310 |
HUB 108 |
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5:00 - 5:30 |
"Have To" and "Be To" – Felicia
Lee (UBC) |
The Semantics of Even and Negative Polarity Items in
Japanese – Kimiko Nakanishi (University of Calgary) |
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5:30 - 6:00 |
Comp-trace Effects Explained Away – Jason Kandybowicz (UCLA) |
Count and Mass Nouns in Dene Sulin – Andrea
Wilhelm (University of Victoria) |
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6:00 - 9:30 |
Party hosted by Fritz Newmeyer & Marilyn Goebel |
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Saturday, April 29, 2006
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Light breakfast |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
When Resumption Determines Reconstruction – Nicolas
Guilliot & Nouman Malkawi (University of Nantes) |
High-Ranking Affix Faithfulness in Sahaptin – Sharon
Hargus (University of
Washington) & Virginia Beavert
(Heritage University) |
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9:30 - 10:00 |
The Adjunction Prohibition and Extraction from Non-Factive
CPs – Carlos de Cuba (Stony Brook University) |
Contrastive Syllabification in Blackfoot – Emily
Elfner (University of Calgary) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Sub-Extraction from Subjects – ēngel Gallego (Universitat Autnoma de
Barcelona) & Juan
Uriagereka (University
of Maryland, College Park) |
Phonetic Variation in German Fricative Voicing: Implications for Phonological Theory
– Jill Beckman (University
of Iowa), Michael Jessen (Bundeskriminalamt)&
Catherine Ringen (University of Iowa) |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee break |
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10:45 - 12:00 |
INVITED TALK: Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC) TBA in Gowen 301 |
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12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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1:30 - 2:00 |
Past Participle Agreement: Split Auxiliary Selection of the Null-Subject Parameter
– Roberta D'Alessandro & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) |
On the Consequences of Event Quantification in
Counterfactual Conditionals – Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa) |
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2:00 - 2:30 |
Capturing Object-Sharing in Ditransitives – Youngmi
Jeong (University
of Maryland, College Park) |
Deriving Concealed Questions from the Semantics of the
Predicate – Ilaria Frana (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree
– Hamid Ouali (University
of Michigan) |
Monotonicity, Closure and the Semantics of Few – Stephanie
Solt (CUNY) |
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3:00 - 3:15 |
Coffee break |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
Adjunction, Condition C, and the Background Adjunct Coreference
Principle – Petr Biskup (University of Leipzig) |
Wug-Testing the "Tone Circle" in Taiwanese
– Jie Zhang, Yuwen Lai & Craig Turnbull-Sailor (University
of Kansas) |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Case and Coordination in Japanese – Reiko
Vermeulen (UCL/Queen Mary, University of London) |
A Foot-Based Reanalysis of Edge-In Tonal Phenomena in
Bambara – Scott Weidman & Sharon Rose (UCSD) |
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4:15 - 4:45 |
Weakest Island Effects – Miki Obata (University of Tsukuba/McGill
University) |
Coordinate Compound Ordering Effects and Abstract
Phonological Scales – David Mortensen (UC, Berkeley) |
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4:45 - 5:00 |
Coffee break |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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5:00 - 5:30 |
Scalar (Non-) Identity and Similarity – Peter
Alrenga (UCSC) |
Definiteness Marking in the Bulgarian – Ascander
Dost & Vera Gribanova (UCSC) |
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5:30 - 6:00 |
Aktionsart Restrictions as Conditions on Measure Phrase
Licensing – Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University) |
Verb Movement and Phase Sliding – ēngel Gallego (Universitat Autnoma de
Barcelona) |
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6:00 - 9:30 |
Dinner at Waterfront Activities Center |
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Sunday, April 30, 2006
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Light breakfast |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Instrument Subjects are Agents or Causers – Artemis
Alexiadou & Florian Schfer (University of Stuttgart) |
Korean Evidentials and Assertion – Kyung-Sook
Chung (Simon Fraser
University) |
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9:30 - 10:00 |
Infinitives Are Tenseless – Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut) |
Attributive "Wrong" – Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University) |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee break |
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Location |
Gowen 301 |
Gowen 201 |
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10:15 - 11:30 |
INVITED TALK: James McCloskey (UCSC) TBA in Gowen 301 |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee break |
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11:45 - 12:15 |
Triggering Factivity: Prosodic Evidence for Syntactic Structure – Dalina
Kallulli (University of
Vienna) |
Creolization, Sound Change and OT: Toward an Explanatory Framework
– Eric Russell Webb (UC, Davis) |
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12:15 - 12:45 |
Adjective Ordering Restrictions Revisited – Alexandra
Teodorescu (University of Texas at Austin/McGill University) |
Stages of OT Phonological Acquisition and Error-Selective
Learning – Anne-Michelle Tessier
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
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12:45 - 1:15 |
The Interpretation of Universally Quantified DPs and
Singular Definites in Adverbially Quantified
Sentences – Stefan Hinterwimmer
(Humboldt Universitt,
Berlin) |
Opaque Allomorphy in OT – Ania Lubowicz (USC) |