NELS 40 schedule

Printable (PDF) version of schedule, updated October 8th

Main conference location: MIT Building 46: 43 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA.

Friday

8:30-9:15: Registration and Breakfast; Room: Building 46 3rd floor Atrium
9:20-9:30: Opening Remarks
9:30-10:30: Session Chair: Claire Halpert
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Session Chair: Jeremy Hartman
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Explaining non-native consonant cluster processing
Lisa Davidson (NYU) & Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins); The syntax of comparative numerals
Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago); Phonological rule change: The constant rate effect
Josef Fruehwald, Jonathan Gress-Wright, & Joel Wallenberg (UPenn); Irreversible binding
Martha McGinnis (University of Calgary)
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Chair: Gillian Gallagher
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Alya Asarina
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Learning a novel accent: Implicit acquisition of phonological alternations
Katrin Skoruppa & Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP Paris); Wh-reciprocals, quantifier raising, and phasehood
Ryan Bennett (UCSC); Naïve parameter learning for Optimality Theory - The hidden structure problem
Gaja Jarosz (Yale); Ways of Wh-coordination
Barbara Citko (University of Washington) & Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (METU); The phonetics and phonology of fricative non-neutralization in Turkish
Andreea Nicolae & Andrew Nevins (Harvard); Maximalization and the definite reading in Mandarin wh-conditionals
Chloe Gu (UMass Amherst)
12:30-2:00: Lunch (NOT PROVIDED)
2:00-3:30: Chair: Peter Graff
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Iain Giblin
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Challenging locality in constraint indexation: Epenthesis in the Vedic perfect
Adam Cooper (Cornell); The non-existence of a phi-feature dependency between Tº and Cº
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht); Initial syllable faithfulness as the best model of word-size effects in alternations
Michael Becker & Andrew Nevins (Harvard); Agree to remain silent: The syntactic licensing of ellipsis
Lobke Aelbrecht (Ghent); Underapplication of vowel reduction in Majorcan Catalan and in other Romance languages
Clàudia Pons Moll (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Variability in Icelandic agreement: An interaction of DP licensing and Multiple Agree
Cherlon Ussery (Carleton College)
3:30-4:00: Break
4:00-5:00: Chair: Bronwyn Bjorkman
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Luka Crnic
NOTE: Room change to Stata 141 (32-141); Exceptions in stress assignment: Feet in input
Öner Özçelik (McGill); On ‘restricted degrees’
Alexander Grosu (Tel Aviv University) & Hadas Kotek (MIT); On the nature and distribution of successive cyclicity
Marcel den Dikken (CUNY); Do children know when their room counts as clean?
Francesca Foppolo & Francesca Panzeri (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
5:10: Room: Stata 123 (32-123); Michael Ullman (Georgetown)
Memory, language, brain and sex; followed by commentator-led discussion with commentator Adam Albright

Saturday

8:30-9:30: Breakfast
9:30-10:30: Chair: Maria Giavazzi
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Michael Erlewine
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); To alternate or not to alternate: What is the boundary?
Jennifer Michaels (MIT); Plural epistemic indefinites
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (UMass Boston) & Paula Menendez-Benito (Goettingen); Morpho-phonological edge effects and their implications
Eva Dobler (McGill); Epsitemic modality and indexicality
Vincent Homer (UCLA)
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Chair: Jonah Katz
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Tue Trinh
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Morphological alternations at the intonational phrase edge (in K’ichee’)
Robert Henderson (UCSC); Shifted indexicals in Uyghur
Kirill Shklovsky & Yasutada Sudo (MIT); Recursivity and binarity in prosodic phrasing: Evidence from Connemara Irish
Emily Elfner (UMass Amherst/UCSC); Counterfactuals, negation, and polarity
Michela Ippolito & Julia Su (University of Toronto); Prosodic effects in word order: Evidence from Ukranian
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (Reed, SUNY Stonybrook) & Roksolana Mykhaylyk (SUNY Stonybrook); Non-restrictive relative clauses within a unidimensional semantics
Philippe Schlenker (CNRS)
12:30-2:00: Lunch (PROVIDED)
2:00-3:30: Chair: Natasha Ivlieva
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Marie-Christine Meyer
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Prepositional versus verbal causitivizers
Miyoko Yasui (Dokkyo); Disjunction in Wh-questions
Andreas Haida & Sophie Repp (Humboldt University, Berlin); The syntax of syncretism
Bronwyn Bjorkman (MIT); Some observations on the semantic types of question-embedding verbs
Lance Nathan (Northeastern); On inflectional and derivational diminutives
Marijke De Belder (CRISSP/Utrecht/HUBrussels), Noam Faust (Université Paris VII), & Nicola Lampitelli (Université Paris VII); Quantificational properties of ne-Wh items in Russian
Natalia Kondrashova (University of MIchigan) & Radek Simik (Groningen)
3:30-4:00: Break
4:00-5:00: Chair Alexander Podobraev
Room: BCS McGovern seminar room (46-3189); Chair: Hadas Kotek
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Meaning targets in syntax and morphology: A study of Hupa agreement
Amy Campbell (UC Berkeley); The interpretation of the German specificity markers "bestimmt" and "gewiss"
Christian Ebert (Bielefeld), Cornelia Ebert (Osnabruck), & Stefan Hinterwimmer (Humboldt University, Berlin); Elaborations on Cyclic Agree: A window into phonology/syntax mismatch
Bethany Lochbihler (McGill); Two sides of the same pragmatic move: The German discourse particles etwa and nicht
Simone Gieselman & Ivano Caponigro (UCSD)
5:00: Business Meeting; Room: 46-3002 (Auditorium)
Party at MIT Museum: Begins 15 minutes after the end of the Business Meeting (roughly 6:15); Dinner is included.

Sunday

(The two workshops, on Phonological Similarity and the Semantics Workshop on Pronouns, will run in parallel to the main session on Sunday.)

8:30-9:30: Breakfast
9:30-10:30: Chair: Kirill Shklovsky
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Linearization and the architecture of grammar: A view from the Final-over-Final constraint
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge/Stellenbosch), Anders Holmberg (Newcastle), & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge); The resuscitation of the CED
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle)
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Chair: Liudmila Nikolaeva
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); VP-scrambling, linearization preservation, and the theories of control
Kensuke Takita (Nanzan); Paths in remnant movement: A single solution to three problems in the Polish OVS syntax
Bartosz Wiland (Poznan); Testing Greenberg’s Universal 18 using an artificial language learning paradigm
Jennifer Culbertson (Johns Hopkins)
12:30-2:00: Lunch (PROVIDED)
2:00-3:30: Chair: Sam Al Khatib
Room: BCS Singleton Auditorium (46-3002); Parameterizing Case Theory: Raising verbs in Bantu
Vicki Carstens (University of Missouri) & Michael Diercks (Georgetown); The crosslinguistic distribution of polydefinites: case and expletive determiners
Marika Lekakou (Meertens Institute) & Kriszta Szendroi (UCL); A unified analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-effects in Barceloni Catalan
Martin Walkow (UMass Amherst)

Alternates

On the nature of adjectival modification: A case study in Javanese
Jozina Vander Klok (McGill)

Inverted antecedents in hidden conditionals
Maria Biezma (UMass Amherst)

Indefinites in Chinese and the theory of D-V merge
Wei-wen Liao (USC)