The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference
Dedicated to the memory of Jerrold J. Katz
April 20, 2002
Main Building, Room 206, 100 Washington Square East
| 8:30-9:15am | Coffee |
Session I
| 9:15-9:45 | Arto Anttila (NYU): Assibilation |
| 9:45-10:15 | Gerry Dempsey (CUNY): Consonant lengthening in Icelandic |
| 10:15-10:45 | Jonathan MacDonald (SUNY): Cue Weight Dependence on Vowel Space Distribution |
| 10:45-11:00 | BREAK |
Session II
| 11:00-11:30 | Tomoyuki Yabe (CUNY): On the expressions of possession in Amharic and Somali, and their prepositional elements "lä/la" |
| 11:30-12:00 | Kasangati K.W. Kinyalolo (SUNY): What's with the associative marker -a in Bantu? |
| 12:00-12:30 | Mamori Sugita (CUNY): Set-Theoretic Commutativity of Noun Phrases in Predicate Inversion Constructions |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH |
Session III
| 2:00-2:30 | Ana M.S. Zilles (NYU): Subject-Verb Agreement with first person plural in Brazilian Portuguese: Comparing Evidence from Different Communities |
| 2:30-3:00 | Charles Cairns (CUNY): Foot and syllable in Southern Paiute |
| 3:00-3:30 | Mariane Borroff (SUNY): Against an ONSET Analysis of Hiatus Resolution |
| 3:30-3:45 | BREAK |
Session IV
| 3:45-4:15 | Tanya Scott (SUNY): The CP-Topic Parameter & Russian Wh-Movement |
| 4:15-4:45 | Ana Longenecker (CUNY) & Marcel den Dikken (CUNY): Linking the event to its instigator: A study of Spanish causative constructions |
| 4:45-5:15 | Bill Haddican (NYU): Aspects of DP Word Order Across Creoles |
ALTERNATE PAPERS
Phonology
| Franc Marusic (SUNY) | *Aff-stem-ix: on the nature of discontinuous affixes |
| Robert Vago (CUNY) | On the Treatment of Geminate Consonants in Moraic Theory |
Syntax
| Barbara Ürögdi (SUNY) | Feature Doubling, Aspectual Structure, and the Beginnings of a Theory of Expletives |
| Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) | Lexical Integrity, Checking and the Mirror: A checking approach to syntactic word formation |
Last Modified: March 29, 2002