Program (now with some Handouts)

 

 

 

     
     
     
Saturday October 23, 2004
All day at ITE C80
08:30 Breakfast
9:00 Session 5 Syntax (chair: Susi Wurmbrand)
Martina Wiltschko
British Columbia		 Expletive categorical features. A case study of number marking in Halkomelem Salish
Susana Bejar
McGill		 Syntactic projections as vocabulary insertion sites
Milan Rezac
U. Toronto		 The free rider principle: Agree, features and atoms
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Session 6 Phonology (chair: David Michaels)
Kathryn Flack
UMass		 Lateral phonotactics in Australian languages
Nicholas Fleisher
UC Berkeley		 Preservation of the marked in vowel reharmonization
11:45 Invited Talk
Lisa Selkirk
UMass		 The syntax of intonational phrasing from the standpoint of English
12:45 Lunch (1.5 hrs)
14:15 Session 7 Semantics (chair: Kimiko Nakanishi)
Bridget Copley
USC		 A conceptual and a grammatical distinction for modals
Mandy Simons
Carnegie Mellon U.		 Or and modals
15:15 Poster Session II (See details)
16:15 Special Session SL linguistics (chair: Gaurav Mathur)
Jairo Nunes and Ronice Müller de Quadros
Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina		 Focus duplication of wh-elements in Brazilian Sign Language
Christian Rathmann
U. Texas, Austin		 FINISH in American Sign Language: One or two lexical entries?
Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach
U. Amsterdam and U. Mainz		 Relative clauses in German Sign Language: Extraposition and reconstruction
17:45 Coffee Break
18:00 Invited Talk
Diane Lillo-Martin
University of Connecticut		 Sign Linguistics and the Interfaces
19:15 Party at the Rome Ballroom