North East Linguistic Society (NELS)
32nd Annual Meeting
CUNY Graduate Center
& New York University
October 19-21, 2001
Invited speakers: Janet Dean Fodor & Richard Kayne
NELS 32 - Preliminary Program
(last updated 21 October 2001)
FRIDAY 10/19 CUNY Grad Center, Elebash Recital Hall
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks CUNY |
| Chair: Paul Postal (NYU) |
| 09:15-09:45 | Idan Landau (Ben Gurion U): A typology of psych passives |
| 09:45-10:15 | Liina Pylkkänen (MIT): Root-selecting, Verb-selecting and VoiceP-selecting causatives |
| 10:15-10:45 | Asya Pereltsvaig (Tromsø): Case and aspect in American Russian: What does American Russian morphology tell us about syntax? |
COFFEE/TEA
| Chair: Robert Fiengo (CUNY Grad Center) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Paula Menéndez-Benito (Umass Amherst): Aspect and adverbial quantifiers in Spanish |
| 11:30-12:00 | Michela Ippolito (MIT): Presuppositions and implicatures in counterfactuals |
| 12:00-12:30 | Yael Sharvit (UConn): The extensionality of 'try' - An event-based analysis |
LUNCH
| Chair: Anna Szabolcsi (NYU) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Christopher Potts (UC Santa Cruz): No vacuous quantification constraints in syntax |
| 14:30-15:00 | Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser U) & Maribel Romero (UPenn): Ellipsis in the syntax of alternative questions |
| 15:00-15:30 | Elena Guerzoni (MIT): Even NPIs in questions |
COFFEE/TEA
| Chair: Hubert Truckenbrodt (Rutgers) |
| 15:45-16:15 | Carolina González (USC): The effect of prosody on glottal stop deletion in Capanahua |
| 16:15-16:45 | Masanori Deguchi & Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Indiana U): Prosody in wh-questions |
| 16:55-17:55 | Invited Speaker: Janet Dean Fodor, Special Theme: Prosodic Phrasing
Title tba |
SATURDAY 10/20 NYU Main Building, Room 703
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks NYU |
| Chair: Jaklin Kornflit (Syracuse University) |
| 09:15-09:45 | Line Hove Mikkelsen (UC Santa Cruz): Ambiguous copula sentences in Danish: Evidence against the inversion hypothesis |
| 09:45-10:15 | Andrew Simpson (SOAS) & Zoe Wu (USC): Cyclic Spell-Out and the size of phases |
| 10:15-10:45 | Winfried Lechner (Tübingen): Deriving PS-paradoxes by conditions on Merge |
COFFEE/TEA
| Chair: Howard Lasnik (UConn) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Andrea Rackowski (MIT): Subject and specificity: The case of Tagalog |
| 11:30-12:00 | Felicia Lee (UBC Vancouver): Anaphoric R-expressions: 'Bound' names as bound variables |
| 12:00-12:30 | Ivy Sichel (Hebrew U Jerusalem): Demonstrative anaphora and indexical representation |
LUNCH
| Chair: Harry van der Hulst (UConn) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Jonathan Barnes (UC Berkeley): Domain-initial strengthening and the phonetics and phonology of positional neutralization |
| 14:30-15:00 | Daniel Currie Hall (Toronto): A source-filter model for generative metrics |
| 15:00-15:30 | David Harrison, Mark Dras & Berk Kapicioglu (UPenn): Agent-based modeling and microparametric variation: Modeling the evolution of vowel harmony |
COFFEE/TEA
| Chair: Anthony Kroch (UPenn) |
| 15:45-16:15 | Thomas McFadden (UPenn): The morphosyntax of Finno-Ugric Case-marking: A DM account |
| 16:15-16:45 | Alison Henry (Ulster): Microparametric variation in the syntax of expletives: Belfast English and standard English |
| 16:55-17:55 | Invited Speaker: Richard Kayne,
Special Theme: Microparametric Variation
Title tba |
SUNDAY 10/21 NYU Main Building, Room 703
| Chair: Stephen Crain (UMD College Park) |
| 09:15-09:45 | John Whitman (Cornell) & Dianne Jonas (Yale): Limiting multiple specifiers to the interface |
| 09:45-10:15 | Arhonto Terzi (TEI Patras) & Ken Wexler (MIT): A-chains and S-homophones in children's grammar: Evidence from Greek passives |
| 10:15-10:45 | Hirohisa Kiguchi & Rozalind Thornton (UMD College Park): Children's understanding of Binding Principle B in ACD constructions |
COFFEE/TEA
| Chair: Ellen Broselow (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Colin Wilson (UCLA): Phonotactic learning with targeted constraints |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jeff Mielke (Ohio State): Turkish /h/ deletion: Evidence for the interplay of speech perception and phonology |
| 12:00-12:30 | Paul de Lacy (UMass Amherst): Conflation and the expression of scales |
LUNCH
| Chair: Richard Larson (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Zeljko Boskovic (UConn & CNRS): Expletives don't move |
| 14:30-15:00 | Bridget Copley (MIT): A linguistic argument for indeterministic futures |
| 15:00-15:30 | Kimiko Nakanishi (UPenn) & Satoshi Tomioka (UDelaware): Non-Uniform Plurality: A Case Study of Japanese Plurals |
Alternates:
| Benjamin Bruening (MIT): Raising to object and phase edges |
| Norvin Richards (MIT): Lowering and cyclicity: Attraction by X from SpecXP |
| Semantics | Richard Larson & Miyuki Sawada (SUNY Stony Brook): Adjunct clauses, presupposition and root transformations |
| Andrew Nevins (MIT): Counterfactuality without past tense and the morphology-pragmatics interface |
| Martin Hackl (UMD College Park): The ingredients of essentially plural predicates |