April 22-24, 2011

University of Arizona 3

rd floor, Memorial Student Union

Program

Friday, April 22

8:00-8:45: Registration (Sabino Room)

Breakfast/Coffee (Catalina Room)

8:45-9:00: Opening remarks: Laura Briggs, Associate Dean

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

(Santa Rita Room)

9:00-10:30: Session 1

Santa Rita room Rincon room

Syntax: Case. Chair: Mike Putnam

Phonology.

Chair: Diana Archangeli

9-9:30 Claire Halpert, MIT.

Case, agreement, EPP and

information structure: A

quadruple-dissociation in

Zulu.

Laura McPherson, UCLA.

Tonal underspecification and

interpolation in Tommo So.

9:30-

10

Mark Norris, UCSC.

Towards an analysis of

concord (in Icelandic).

Martina Martinovič, Chicago.

The Interaction of Animacy with

Phonetic and Phonological

Factors in Neostokavian.

10-

10:30

Edit Doron, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem,

and Geoffrey Khan,

Cambridge.

PCC and Ergative Case:

Evidence from Neo-

Aramaic.

Brett Hyde, Brooke Husic and

Kenny Hofmeister,

Washington.

Post-Peninitial Accent in

Kashaya: An Alternative to

Initial Extrametricality.

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break (Catalina Room)

10:45-12:15: Session 2

Santa Rita room Rincon room Syntax: Nominals.

Chair: Heidi Harley Endangered Languages 1.

(Sponsored by AIS)

Chair: Carrie Gillon

10:45-

11:15 Honglei Wang, David

Potter and Masaya

Yoshida, Northwestern.

"Gapping" in Determiner

Phrase.

Jason Kandybowicz,

Swarthmore, and Harold

Torrence, Kansas.

Krachi Wh- In-Situ: A

Question of Prosody.

11:15-

11:45

Ryan Nelson, Arizona.

A principled account of

Malagasy deverbal nouns.

Heather Willson, Brigham

Young.

Concealed pseudoclefts in

Marshallese wh- questions.

11:45-

12:15 Michael Yoshitaka

Erlewine, MIT.

Share to Compare: the

Mandarin bǐ Comparative.

Amy Rose Deal, Harvard.

A-thematic possessor raising.

12:15-1:45: Lunch

1:45-2:45: Poster Session (Catalina Room)

Andrei Antonenko, Stony Brook.

On phases and tense dependency: subjunctives and binding.

*Ana Arregui, Maria Luisa Rivero and Andres Pablo Salanova,

Ottawa. (Alternate.)

The construction of imperfectivity in Mebengokre.

Miloje Despic, UConn.

Phases, Reflexives and Spell-Out Domains.

Michael Frazier, Northwestern.

Coordination Reduction in Yidiny and Feature-Driven

Accounts of Syntactic Ergativity.

Kelly Garvey and Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers.

Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place

contrasts.

Laura Kalin, UCLA.

Hixkaryana: The Syntax of OVS Word Order.

Mikko Kupula, MIT.

The role of Spec,vP in clitic doubling.

Jonathan Macdonald, UIllinois Urbana-Champaign.

Nouns affect aspect syntactically.

Frédéric Mailhot, Ohio State.

Learning vowel harmony from real speech in an exemplar-

based model.

Miho Nagai, CUNY, and Oner Ozcelik, McGill.

Syntactic positions of Turkish bare NPs: The view from

Aspect and Prosody.

*Chuoying Ouyang, USC. (Alternate.)

Stress and Affixation in Isbukun Bunun.

Shigeki Taguchi, Shinshu/UConn.

The Syntax of Mean.

Cherlon Ussery, Carleton.

Case and Phi Features as Probes.

Coppe Van Urk, MIT.

Visser's Generalization: A Window into the Syntax of Control.

Martin Walkow, UMass Amherst.

Syntax Drives Morphological Impoverishment of Clitics.

Susanne Wurmbrand, UConn.

The syntax of valuation in auxiliary-participle constructions.

Hideaki Yamashita, YNU.

Prosody and the Comparative Syntax of Wh-questions in

Tokyo and Kumamoto Yatsushiro Japanese.

2:45-4:45: Session 3

Santa Rita room Rincon room Syntax.

Chair: Janet Nicol Endangered Languages 2.

(Sponsored by AIS)

Chair: Andrew Carnie

2:45-

3:15

Bill Haddican, CUNY,

Eytan Zweig, York, and

Daniel Ezra Johnson.

The syntax of be like

quotatives.

Violeta Vazquez-Rojas,

NYU.

Purepecha Classifiers are

Distributive Predicates.

3:15-

3:45

Shoichi Takahashi, Nihon.

Anatomy of Tough

Movement.

Carrie Gillon, ASU, and

Solveiga Armoskaite, UCLA.

DP ≠ DefP.

3:45-

4:15

Laurel MacKenzie, UPenn.

English auxiliary contraction

as a two-stage process:

Evidence from corpus data.

Jessica Coon and Omer

Preminger, MIT.

Towards a Unification of

Person Splits.

4:15-

4:45 Simin Karimi, Gregory

Key and Deniz Tat, Arizona.

Complex predicates in focus.

Sylvia Reed, Arizona.

Multiple Perfects in Scottish

Gaelic.

4:45-5:15: Coffee Break (Catalina Room)

5:15-6:30: Plenary 1 (ILC 140):

Norvin Richards, MIT.

Generalized Contiguity.

Saturday, April 23

8:00-8:30: Registration (Sabino Room)

Breakfast & Coffee (Sabino Room)

8:30-10:30: Session 4

Santa Rita room Rincon room Semantics.

Chair: Jorge Hankamer Methods and Modelling 1.

Chair: Erwin Chan?

8:30-

9

Tony Wright, Texas.

Temporal Adverbials and

Stereotypical Intervals.

Kyle Grove, Cornell.

+Q/-Q and the Ambiguity

Hypothesis of Wh-islands.

9:-

9:30

Mike Putnam, Penn State,

and Volker Gast, Friedrich-

Schiller U Jena.

The Syntax and Semantics of

Excessivity: Evidence from

Germanic.

Irina Agafonova, Concordia.

Computing Hamblin

Alternatives.

9:30-

10

Udo Klein, Bielefeld U.

Quantification, witness sets

and conservativity.

Shin Fukuda, UHawaii,

Grant Goodall, Dan Michel,

and Henry Beecher, UCSD.

Is Magnitude Estimation

Worth the Trouble?

10-

10:30 Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John Hale, Cornell.

Structural Expectations in

Chinese Relative Clause

Comprehension.

Yurie Hara, City University

of Hong Kong, and Shigeto

Kawahara, Rutgers.

The Prosody of Evidentiality

in Japanese: A rating study.

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break (Sabino Room)

10:45-12:15: Session 5

Santa Rita room Rincon room

Syntax.

Chair: Amy Rose Deal Methods and Modelling 2.

Chair: Paul Smolensky

10:45-

11:15

Jorge Hankamer, UCSC.

Turkish Pseudo-Sluicing. Jane Chandlee, Angeliki

Athanasopoulou and Jeffrey

Heinz, Delaware.

Evidence for Classifying

Metathesis Patterns as

Subsequential.

11:15-

11:45

Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai,

Harvard.

Descriptive Complement

Constructions as Concealed

Pseudoclefts in Chinese.

Giorgio Magri, CNRS.

HG has no computational

advantages over OT: towards

a new approach to

computational OT.

11:45-

12:15

Erik Schoorlemmer, MIT,

and Tanja Temmerman,

LUCL/HUB/FUSL.

Head Movement as a PF-

phenomenon: evidence from

identity under ellipsis.

Shinichiro Sano,

International Christian U.

Predicting Ongoing Global

Paradigm Optimization in

Voice in Japanese: Corpus-

Based OT Analysis.

12:15-2:15: Lunch

2:15-3:45: Session 6

Santa Rita room Rincon room Syntax.

Chair: Dalila Ayoun Methods and Modelling 3

Chair: Andy Barss

2:15-

2:45 Rajesh Bhatt and Martin

Walkow, UMass.

Locating agreement in

grammar.

Young Ah Do, MIT.

Learning Alternations without

Bias.

2:45-

3:15

Bill Haddican, CUNY

Queens/York, and Anders

Holmberg, Newcastle.

Object movement symmetries

in British English dialects.

E. Graham Katz,

Georgetown, and Roberto

Zamparelli, Trento.

Quantifying Count/Mass

Elasticity.

3:15-

3:45

Bjarne Ørsnes Freie U

Berlin, Line Mikkelsen,

Berkeley, and Dan Hardt,

Copenhagen Business School.

Orphans hosted by VP-

Anaphora.

Hadas Kotek, Yasutada

Sudo, Edwin Howard and

Martin Hackl, MIT.

A Superlative Reading for

Most-prop.

3:45-4:15: Coffee Break (Sabino Room)

4:15-5:30: Plenary 2 (ILC 140):

Tom Bever, Arizona.

Where do linguistic universals come from?

7:00: Dinner & party, at

Cushing St. Bar and Grill

Directions from the Hotel Arizona to the conference party at the

historic Cushing St. Bar and Grill:

From the south entrance of the hotel (the side opposite from Congress

St.), walk diagonally to your left (southeast) between the opera house

and the music hall to the front of the Tucson Convention Center.

Walk straight south along the front of the convention center and across

the parking lot.

The Cushing St Bar and Grill will be directly in front of you on the

corner of Cushing St. and 14th

St.

Sunday, April 24

8:00-8:30: Coffee & Breakfast (Catalina Room)

8:30-9:30: Session 7

Santa Rita room Rincon Room Psycholinguistics.

Chair: Grant Goodall Endangered Languages 3.

Chair: Simin Karimi

8:30-

9

Jean Crawford, UConn.

Using Syntactic Satiation to

Investigate Subject Islands.

Will Bennett, Akinbiyi

Akinlabi (Rutgers) and Bruce

Connell, York.

Two subject asymmetries in

Defaka focus constructions.

9:-

9:30

Lisa Hsin, Johns Hopkins.

Accelerated acquisition in

English-Spanish bilinguals:

The Structural Transfer

Hypothesis.

Justin Nuger, Maryland.

Discourse Configurationality

in Palauan: Against a clause-

nominalization analysis of the

topic construction.

9:30-9:45: Coffee Break (Catalina Room)

9:45-10:30: Session 8

Santa Rita room Rincon room Semantics.

Chair: Massimo Piattelli-

Palmarini

Phonology: Dependencies.

Chair: Mike Hammond

9:45-

10:15

Marcin Morzycki,

Michigan State.

The Several Faces of

Adnominal Degree

Modification.

Amy LaCross, University of

Arizona.

Non-adjacent phonological

dependency effects on Khalkha

Mongolian speech perception.

10:15-

10:45

Luka Crnic, MIT.

How to get 'even' with

imperatives.

Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe.

Visibility of Covert Voicing

Feature in Serialism.

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break (Catalina Room)

11:15-12:30: Plenary #3 (ILC 140):

Susanne Gahl, UC Berkeley.

Why so short? Competing explanations for

variation

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Poster Session (Catalina Room)

Byron Ahn, UCLA. Agentive Focus and Clausal Reflexivity.

*Alya Asarina, MIT. (Alternate.)

Constraints on Quantifier Lowering.

Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, MIT.

The Crosslinguistic Defaultness of BE.

Lindsay K. Butler, Arizona, T. Florian Jaeger, Rochester, and

Juergen Bohnemeyer, Buffalo.

Psycholinguistics and under-represented languages: Number

in Yucatec Maya sentence production.

Jennifer Culbertson, Rochester, and Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins.

Bayesian modeling of substantive biases for word order in an

artificial language learning paradigm

Natalia Ivlieva, MIT.

Agreement with Disjunction.

Nicholas Lacara, UMass Amherst.

Predicate Which Appositives.

Juwon Lee, UTexas at Austin.

Change of State Verb and Syntax of Serial Verb Constructions

in Korean: An HPSG Account.

Dongsik Lim, CCHS-CSIC.

Temporal and inferential interpretation of Korean direct

evidential -te-.

Hiroki Nomoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

A General Theory of Bare "Singular" Kind Terms.

Jeffrey Punske, Arizona.

Escape Hatches and the Derivation of the DP.

Gregory Scontras, Harvard.

Stubborn Distributivity and Groups.

Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, Yale, and Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser.

Modelling Cross-linguistic Variation in Binding Using

Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar.

Takeru Suzuki, Tokyo Gakugei U.

Strong Resultatives as a PathP Construction: PathPP structure

and Parametrized Path Head Movement.

Andrew Wedel, Arizona, and Abby Kaplan, Utah.

Statistical testing of the functional load hypothesis and

implications for phonological theory.

3:00-5:00: Session 9

Santa Rita room Rincon room Syntax.

Chair: Edit Doron Phonology: Prosody.

Chair: Adam Ussishkin

3:00-

3:30

Anie Thompson, UCSC.

Emotive Factives and Object

Pronominals.

Brian Gainor, Regine Lai and

Jeffrey Heinz, Delaware.

Computational

Characterizations of Vowel

Harmony Patterns and

Pathologies.

3:30-

4:00

Claire Halpert, MIT and

Hadil Karawani,

Amsterdam. Aspect in

counterfactuals from

A(rabic) to Z(ulu).

Sverre Stausland Johnsen,

Harvard. Rhyme acceptability

determined by perceived

similarity.

4:00-

4:30

Usama Soltan, Middlebury

College. Morphosyntactic

effects of NPI-licensing in

Cairene Egyptian Arabic:

The puzzle of -š

disappearance resolved.

Lev Blumenfeld, Carleton.

Russian yers and prosodic

structure.

4:30-

5:00

Marcel Pitteroff and

Artemis Alexiadou,

Stuttgart. The properties of

German sich lassen-middles.

Jiwon Yun, Cornell. The

Deterministic Prosody of

Indeterminates.

This conference could not have happened without the

support of the following people and organizations, to whom

we extend our deepest thanks:

WCCFL Sponsors:

Department of Linguistics

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Vice President for Research

Graduate and Professional Students Council

Cognitive Science

The Office of Student Affairs

American Indian Studies

School of Information Science, Technology and Arts

Anthropology

English Language and Linguistics

Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Spanish and Portuguese

Sociology

WCCFL Reviewers:

Barbara Abbott, Adam Albright, Edith Aldridge, Artemis Alexiadou,

Elena Anagnostopoulou, Karlos Arregi, Ash Asudeh, Audrey Li, Sjef

Barbiers, Josef Bayer, John Beavers, Misha Becker, Jonathan Bobaljik,

Cedric Boeckx, Eulalia Bonet, George Aaron Broadwell, Benjamin

Bruening, Miriam Butt, Seth Cable, Michael Cahill, Maggie Camp,

Andrew Carnie, Andrew Carstairs-Mccarthy, Catherine Ringen,

Emmanuel Chemla, Sandra Chung, Brady Clark, Jennifer Cole,

Elizabeth Cowper, Henry Davis, Marcel Den Dikken, Anna Maria Di

Sciullo, Miriam Diaz, Edit Doron, Laura Downing, Stanley Dubinsky,

Sam Epstein, Dan Finer, Nicholas Fleisher, Lyn Frazier, Naoki Fukui,

Chris Golston, Christine Gunlogson, Javier Gutiérrez Rexach, Martin

Hackl, Daniel Hall, Mike Hammond, Chung-Hye Han, Jorge

Hankamer, Kazuko Harada, Randy Hendrick, Julia Herschensohn,

Caroline Heycock, Hajime Hoji, Sabine Iatridou, Alana Johns, Kyle

Johnson, Jongho Jun, Elsi Kaiser, Jason Kandybowicz, Simin Karimi,

Shigeto Kawahara, Edward Keenan, Paula Kempchinsky, Yoshihisa

Kitagawa, Heejeong Ko, Alexei Kochetov, Hilda Koopman, Jaklin

Kornfilt, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Julie Legate, Geraldine Legendre, Beth

Levin, Roger Levy, David Lightfoot, Alec Marantz, Diane Massam,

William Mcclure, Shigeru Miyagawa, Line Mikkelsen, Pam Munro,

Andrew Nevins, Jairo Nunes, Naomi Ogasawara, Francisco Ordonez,

Anna Papafragou, Andrea Pham, Eric Potsdam, Chris Potts, Ljiljana

Progovac, Carlos Quicoli, Norvin Richards, Maribel Romero, Hotze

Rullmann, Jeff Runner, Mamoru Saito, Mario Saltarelli, Uli Sauerland,

Tobias Scheer, Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Carson Schütze, Sharon Rose,

Andrew Simpson, William Snyder, Peggy Speas, Benjamin Spector,

Donca Steriade, Tim Stowell, Megha Sundara, Yuji Takano, Ida

Toivonen, Judith Tonhauser, Esther Torrego, Ayumi Ueyama, Suzanne

Urbanczyk, Marc Van Oostendorp, Kai Von Fintel, Rachel Walker,

Natasha Warner, Martina Wiltschko, Susanne Wurmbrand, James

Yoon, Alan Yu, Leyla Zidani-Eroglu, Kie Zuraw, Jan-Wouter Zwart.

The WCCFL Metacommittee:

Abstracts: Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Tom Bever, Andrea Davis,

Kara Hawthorne, Bryan James Gordon, Heidi Harley

Book Display: Dalila Ayoun, Lionel Mathieu, Elly van Gelderen

(ASU), Rob Mailhammer (ASU)

Communications: Heidi Harley, Amy Fountain, Chen-chun E,

Alex Trueman

Coordination: Heidi Harley, Mike Hammond

Food: Natasha Warner, Stacey Oberly, Sylvia Reed, Chen-chun E,

Jae-Hyun Sung

Fundraising: Rudy Troike, Tom Bever, Heidi Harley, Megan Stone,

Hyun Kyoung Jung

Linguistics Staff: Marian Wisely, Kimberley Young,

Jennifer Columbus

Party: Andy Wedel, Kevin Schluter, Bryan James Gordon

Proceedings: Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, Tom Bever, Jaehoon Choi,

Jeff Punske, Alex Trueman, Alan Hogue, Deniz Tat,

Chenchun E, Jessamyn Schertz, Tatyana Slobodchikoff,

Dane Bell, Megan Stone, Kara Hawthorne, Samantha Wray,

Hyun Kyoung Jung

Program: Simin Karimi, Adam Ussisshkin, Jeff Punske, Deniz Tat,

Dane Bell, Megan Stone, Jaehoon Choi

Registration: Diane Ohala, Adam Ussishkin, Alex Trueman,

Lionel Mathieu, Amy LaCross, Lindsay Butler,

Zachary Brooks

Rooms/Equipment: Andrew Carnie, Hyun Kyoung Jung,

Jennifer Columbus

Website: Janet Nicol, Erwin Chan, Emma Ehrhardt, Dan Brenner,

Rolando Coto, Brian Berrellez

On Friday and Sunday, food and coffee breaks, as well as the book

display, are in the Catalina Room; on Saturday, they are in the Sabino

Room.