NELS 34 at Stony Brook
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NELS 34 Program
The conference will be held in the Wang Center.
Please check the campus map for directions to the Wang Center.

Friday, November 7, 2003
08.00 Breakfast
08.30 Opening Remarks: Jim Staros
08.45
Session I Syntax, Syntax-Semantics chair: Dan Finer
Minjeong Son & Peter Cole (U. Delaware) The Verbal Suffix –kan and Event Structure in Standard Indonesian
Vita G. Markman (Rutgers) Causatives without Causers and Burzio’s Generalization
Shoici Takahashi (MIT) Pseudogapping and Cyclic Linearization
10.15 Coffee Break
10.30
Session II Phonology chair: Christina Bethin
Michael Wagner (MIT) Prosody as a Diagonalization of Syntax
Abigail Cohn (Cornell) Truncation in Indonesian: Evidence for Violable Minimal Words and AnchorRight
Arto Anttila (NYU), Vivienne Fong (NYU/National University of Singapore), Stefan Benus & Jennifer Nycz (NYU) Deriving Consonant Cluster Phonotactics
12.00 Lunch
13.30
Session III Semantics, Syntax/Semantics chair: Benjamin Bruening
Roumyana Pancheva (USC) & Arnim von Stechow (Tübingen) On the Present Perfect Puzzle
Lynsey Wolter (UCSC) Demonstratives, Definiteness and Determined Reference
Youngjoo Lee (MIT)
15.00 Coffee Break
15.15
Special Session Sentence and Speech Processing chair: David S. Warren
Duane Watson & Michael K. Tannenhaus (U. Rochester) Processing Phrase Accents in Spoken Language Comprehension
Timothy Gambell & Charles Yang (Yale) Scope and Limits of Statistical Learning in Word Segmentation
Tessa Warren (U. Pittsburgh), Edward Gibson, Mariko Jamieson & Christopher Hirsch (MIT) Effects of NP Type on Sentence Complexity
16.45
 Poster Session I
Details
17.45-18.45
Invited Speaker: Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorodo Boulder)
Statistical Processing of Linguistic Structure: Testing a Bayesian Model of Sentence Processing



Saturday, November 8, 2003
08.00 Breakfast
08.30
Session IV
Syntax chair: Barbara Citko
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University) Chain Resolution in Hebrew and V(P)-Fronting
Michael Barrie (U. Toronto) Moving Towards Partial Control
Anikó Lipták (Leiden)
10.00 Coffee Break
10.15
Session V Phonology chair: Lori Repetti
Shigeto Kawahara (UMass) Echo Epenthesis and Reduplication
Alan C. L. Yu (UChicago) Reduplication in English Homeric Infixation
11.15-12.15
Invited Speaker: Ellen Broselow (Stony Brook University)
Language contact phonology: richness of the stimulus, poverty of the base
12.15 Lunch
13.45
 Poster Session II
Details
14.45
Session VI Syntax-Semantics chair: Marcel den Dikken
Franc Marušič (Stony Brook) & Rok Žaucer (UOttawa) The Intensional FEEL-LIKE Construction in Slovenian
Asaf Bachrach (MIT) Pseudoclefts
15.45 Coffee Break
16.00
Session VII Semantics chair: Christopher Potts
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (UMass) Simplification of Disjuntive Antecedents in a Hamblin Semantics
Kimiko Nakanishi & Maribel Romero (UPenn) Two Constructions with Most and their Syntactic Properties
17.00-18.00
Invited Speaker: Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)
Sentence-final Adverbs and "Scope"
19:00 Party in the evening


Sunday, November 9, 2003
09.00 Breakfast
09.30
Session VIII Morpho-Syntax chair: Mark Aronoff
Heidi Harley (U. Arizona) Merge, Conflation and Head Movement: The First Sister Principle Revisited
Jason Brown, Karsten Koch & Martina Wiltschko (U. British Columbia) The Person Hierarchy: Primitive or Epiphenomenal? Evidence from Halkomelem Salish
Jeffrey Lidz (Northwestern) & Alexander Williams (UPenn) C-locality and the Interaction of Reflexives and Ditransitives
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15-12.15
Invited Speaker: Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)
The dual source of adjectives and XP- vs. N-raising in the Romance DP
12.15
 Lunch
13.45
Session IX Syntax chair: John Bailyn
Klaus Abels (U. Leipzig) Right Node Raising: Ellipsis or Across the Board Movement?
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Leiden/ULCL) Stranding Under Sluicing
C-T James Huang (Harvard) & Masao Ochi (U.Osaka) Syntax of The Hell: Two Types of Dependencies
15.15 NELS 35 Planning Meeting


Alternates (*poster session I, **poster session II, ***not presenting a poster)
 
Phonology
Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik U.)
 The Feature [tense] Revisited: the case of Korean three-way phonation consonants*
Zhiqiang Li (MIT) Edge Prominence and Metrical Prominence in Tone Mapping: A Case of Tone Movement**
 
Syntax
Uli Sauerland & Kazuko Yatsushiro (U. Tübingen)

 A Silent Noun in Partitives***
Lotus Goldberg (Northwestern, McGill)

 Deriving V-Stranding VP Ellipsis**
 
Semantics
Christian Ebert (Kings College) & Cornelia Endriss (U. Potsdam)

 Topic Interpretation and Wide Scope Indefinites***
Benjamin Bruening (Delaware)

 Unselective Binding in Chinese and Passamaquoddy**
Special Session
Edson T. Miyamoto (NAIST/Tsukuba), Michiko Nakamura (U. Hawaii at Manoa) & Shoichi Takahashi (MIT)

 Processing Relative Clauses in Japanese with Two Attachment Sites*
Marta Ortega-Llebaria (U. Northern Colorado) The Effect of Suprasegmental Constraints in the Perception and Processing of Acoustic Features*


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