Friday, January 26 [download pdf]
8:00
Breakfast & Registration
The Vest Student Street (outside 32-123/141)
9:00
That-trace effects: insights from Igbo
Doreen Georgi
[slides]
(32-123)
10:00
Break
| Session 1 (32-141) chair: Hani Na'eem | Session 2 (32-155) chair: Vincent Rouillard | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | The Learnability of Syntax Islands Annika Heuser, Hector Vazquez Martinez & Charles Yang | Covert reciprocals Jad Wehbe [handout] |
| 11:00 | Size matters: clause structure and selective opacity in Swahili relatives Tom Meadows [handout] | What makes a plurality sentient?: grouphood as the structure of number in Ktunaxa Rose Underhill |
| 11:30 | Syntactic ergativity without inversion in Kalaallisut Amy Rose Deal, Line Mikkelsen & Ellen Thrane [handout] | Higher order quantification outside questions: the case of free relatives Luis Alonso-Ovalle [slides] |
12:00
Lunch (on your own!)
1:30
| Special Session: Austronesian Languages (32-141) chair: Giovanni Roversi | Session 3 (32-155) chair: Bergül Soykan | |
|---|---|---|
| 2:30 | The Malayic verbal phase and Cyclic Linearization Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot [handout] | On the monotonicity of attitudes: NPIs and clausal embedding Tanya Bondarenko & Patrick Elliott [handout] |
| 3:00 | Adverb order with still Aviv Schoenfeld, Moshe E. Bar-Lev & Roni Katzir [slides] |
3:30
Break
| 4:00 | Recalling adjective-noun order in Tagalog is sensitive to phonological markedness constraints Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Alessa Farinella, John Michael De Pano & Patricia Asuncion | Before and after decomposing first and last Johanna Alstott [slides] |
| 4:30 | How to be a word in Atara Imere Adam Chong & Coppe van Urk | Fake mass nouns and associative plurality Yağmur Sağ |
5:00
Break (and walk to MIT museum)
| 6:00-7:00 | Poster Session A | bar + hors d'œuvres MIT Museum |
| 7:00-8:00 | Poster Session B |
Saturday, January 27 [download pdf]
8:00
Breakfast
The Vest Student Street (outside 32-123/141)
9:00
Theories of linguistic inferences: What experiments can tell us
Lyn Tieu
[slides]
(32-123)
| Special session: Experimental Methods in Linguistic Theory (32-141) chair: Jad Wehbe | Session 4 (32-155) chair: Anton Kukhto | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Priming parasitic gaps: multiple ways to produce silence Shota Momma, Brian Dillon & Kyle Johnson | The third person is present: an argument from determiners in generic statements Artemis Alexiadou, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić & Uli Sauerland [slides] [handout] |
| 10:30 | Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: the case of cumulation Jonathan Palucci [handout] | A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax (Coast Tsimshian) Colin Brown & Henry Davis [handout] |
11:00
Break
| 11:30 | Experimental vs. elicited data in sign language syntax Jessica Lettieri, Mirko Santoro & Carlo Geraci | Evidence from impersonals for [±hearer] Carol Rose Little |
| 12:00 | Close vs. Cloze: The role(s) of contact and expectancy in English pronoun preferences Shannon Bryant [slides] | Concord feeds apparent non-local allomorphy in Bidhaawyeet Andrew Murphy & Bob Offer-Westort [handout] |
12:30
Lunch & PUMP (32-123)
(food provided)
| Session 5 (32-141) chair: Elise Newman and Stanislao Zompì | Session 6 (32-155) chair: Eunsun Jou and Bingzi Yu | |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 | Finite control in Brazilian Portuguese Julie Anne Legate & Gesoel Mendes | Experimental evidence that learning morphophonological alternations starts local Caleb Belth |
| 2:30 | Resolution by case syncretism in Icelandic passives Jim Wood, Oddur Snorrason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson | Phonetic faithfulness in counterfeeding opacity Yeong-Joon Kim |
3:00
Poster Session C
The Vest Student Street (outside 32-123/141)
4:00
Short break
| 4:15 | In defense of cyclic coordination structures: The view from German Philipp Weisser & Luise Schwarzer [handout] | Marginal representations in loanword adaptation: affrication in Brazilian Portuguese English Natália Brambatti Guzzo & Guilherme Duarte Garcia [slides] |
| 4:45 | P0-stranding vs. p0-stranding: Phasehood and antilocality in the adpositional phrase Andrew McInnerney | Beyond unpredictability: A GHG analysis of Greek noun stress Giorgos Markopoulos, Eirini Apostolopoulou, Vassiliki Apostolouda & Anthi Revithiadou |
5:15
Short break
5:30
How phonology and morphology interact: The case of French liaison
Benjamin Storme
[slides]
(32-123)
6:30
Walk to dinner
7:00
Conference Dinner
Samberg Conference Center
Poster sessions [download pdf]
Poster session A
(MIT Museum, Friday, 6-7pm)
Poster session B
(MIT Museum, Friday, 7-8pm)
Poster Session C
(Student Street, Saturday, 3.00-4.00pm)
