The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference
April 16, 2005
Silver Building, Room 206, 100 Washington Square East (Map)
| 9:15-10:00am | Breakfast |
Session I: Syntax
| 10:00-10:30 | Tomoyuki Yabe (CUNY): Morphological Transitivization and Causativization in two Ethiopian Semitic Languages, Amharic and Ge'ez |
| 10:30-11:00 | Marcos Rohena-Madrazo (NYU): Superlative Movement in Puerto Rican Spanish |
| 11:00-11:30 | Alexandra Ioannidou (CUNY): P-less 'to' source: Preposition Drop After Manner-of-Motion Verbs, with Specific Reference to Greek |
| 11:30-11:45 | BREAK |
Session II: Phonology
| 11:45-12:15 | Julie Weisenberg (SUNY): 'Mouthing' - A Discourse Strategy in Signed Language-Spoken Language Interpretation |
| 12:15-12:45 | Jason Shaw (NYU): Deriving Lexical Stratification from an Exemplar Model: The Case of Japanese Compounds |
| 12:45-1:15 | Susan Huidobro (SUNY): Phonological Constraints on Verum Focus |
| 1:15-2:45 | LUNCH BREAK (local restaurants) |
Session III: Semantics
| 2:45-3:15 | Jonathan E. McDonald (SUNY): Inner Aspect and Iterative Interpretation |
| 3:15-3:45 | Karoi Furuya (CUNY): Bare Nominals in Japanese |
| 3:45-4:15 | Carlos de Cuba (SUNY): Non-local Licensing of NPIs in Basque and English |
| 4:15-4:30 | BREAK |
Session IV: Syntax
| 4:30-5:00 | Xuân-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka, Lidiya Tornyova, William Gregory Sakas, and Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY): Statistics vs. UG in Language Acquisition: Does a Bigram Analysis Predict Auxiliary Inversion? |
| 5:00-5:30 | Tomoko Kawamura (SUNY): A Concealed Clause in the Japanese "no koto" Construction |
| 5:30-6:00 | Peter Slomanson (CUNY): Finiteness and Pseudo-Affixation in Sri Lankan Malay |
| post-talks | PARTY - Solas, 232 E. 9th St. (between Second & Third Ave.) |
ALTERNATE PAPER
| Kevin Roon (NYU): | Russian Stress in Compound Nouns: Head Dominance or Anti-Faithfulness? |
Last Modified: April 15, 2005