Program


Conference Location: Stevenson College and Environs

Friday Afternoon, April 13th

1:00 - 5pm
Registration
2:45pm
Opening - William Ladusaw, Dean of Humanities, UCSC
3:00-4:30pm
1st Plenary Lecture - Christopher Potts (Stanford University)
Relevance and Pragmatic Enrichment in a Task-Oriented Dialogue Corpus
5:00-6:30pm
Reception

Saturday Morning, April 14th

9:00-11:00am
Registration

Session 1


Session 2


9:30-10:00
Upward vs. Downward-Probing Agree: Defining a Single Feature Valuation Operation
Michael Diercks, Michael Putnam,
Marjo van Koppen
Pomona College, Pennsylvania State University, Utrecht University
The Object of My POSSession:
Predication and the Structure of Possessives in American Sign Language
Natasha Abner
UCLA
10:00-10:30
Aspect-based Agreement Reversal
in Dialects of Neo-Aramaic
Laura Kalin, Coppe van Urk
UCLA, MIT
Noun Incorporation
and Non-Canonical Objects
Michael Barrie, Audrey Li
Sogang University, USC
10:30-11:00
Sources of Symmetry
in Bantu Double Object Constructions
Mark Baker, Ken Safir, Justine Sikuku
Rutgers University
Semantically Conditioned Case in Finnish
Alex Djalali
Stanford University
11:30-12:00
Clitic-hood as a Phonological Correlate
of Phase-head Status:
Evidence from the Germanic DP
Alexandra Simonenko
McGill University
A headedness distinction in Hebrew WH-phrases
Hadas Kotek
MIT
12:00-12:30
A Split Analysis of Plurality:
Evidence from Amharic
Ruth Kramer
Georgetown University
Eliminating Rightward Movement:
Extraposition as Flexible Linearization
of Adjuncts
Tim Hunter, Robert Frank
Yale University


Saturday Lunchtime, April 14th

12:30-2:00
First Poster Session ⬎
(Lunch Provided)

Saturday Afternoon, April 14th

Session 1


Session 2


2:00-2:30
On the Syntax of Why-Stripping
Chizuru Nakao, Masaya Yoshida,
Ivan Ortega-Santos
Daito Bunka University,
Northwestern University
Dissimilation by Correspondence
in Sundanese
Will Bennett
Rutgers University
2:30-3:00
The Pragmatics of Belief Reports in Development
Shevaun Lewis, Valentine Hacquard,
Jeffrey Lidz
University of Maryland
Superfeet as Recursion

Violeta Martínez-Paricio

CASTL, University of Tromsø
3:30-4:00
Pseudo-NP Coordination

Michael Frazier, David Potter,
Masaya Yoshida
Northwestern University
Cross-Linguistic Differences in Superlative
Movement out of Nominal Phrases
Roumyana Pancheva, Barbara Tomaszewicz
USC
4:00-4:30
An Ellipsis Approach
to Contrastive Left-Dislocation
Dennis Ott
University of Groningen
A New Standard of Comparison
Peter Alrenga, Chris Kennedy,
Jason Merchant
Boston University, University of Chicago



Saturday Evening, April 14th

4:45-6:00
2nd Plenary Lecture - Kie Zuraw (UCLA)
Quantitative Patterns of Constraint Interaction
6:30-9:00
WCCFL 30 Party

Sunday Morning, April 15th

Session 1


Session 2


10:00-10:30
Variability and Trigger Competition in Finnish Disharmonic Loanwords
Wendell Kimper, Riikka Ylitalo
UCSC, Oulu University
The Modality of ’offer’ and Other
Prospective Verbs
Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer
University of Stuttgart
10:30-11:00
Emergent Rankings
in Foreign Word Adaptation
Ellen Broselow, Marie Huffman,
Jiwon Hwang, Sophia Kao, Yu-An Lu
Stony Brook University
How to Express Yourself:
On the Discourse Effect of Wh-Exclamatives
Anna Chernilovskaya, Cleo Condoravdi,
Sven Lauer
Utrecht University, Stanford University
11:00-11:30
Infant Word Segmentation:
An Incremental, Integrated Model
Constantine Lignos, Charles Yang
University of Pennsylvania
A Scalar Opposite of Scalar Only
Barbara Tomaszewicz
USC



Sunday Lunchtime, April 15th

12:00-1:30
Second Poster Session ⬎

Sunday Afternoon, April 15th

1:30-3:00
3rd Plenary Lecture - Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
On Competence and Performance, Mostly
3:00
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First Poster Session, Saturday 12:30-2:00

Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse in Ellipsis: Accounting for Voice Mismatch
Steve SanPietro, Ming Xiang, Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)

Processing Strategies and Resumptive Pronouns in English
Chung-Hye Han, Susannah Kirby, Marina Dyakonova, Noureddine Elouazizi, Christina Galeano, Emrah Görgülü, Nancy Hedberg, Jennifer Hinnell, Meghan Jeffrey, Kyeongmin Kim (Simon Fraser University)

Indefiniteness and the Typology of Implicit Arguments
Scott AnderBois (University of Connecticut)

Topic Abstraction as the Source for Nested Alternatives: A Conservative Semantics for Contrastive Topic
Noah Constant (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Revisiting Wh-Movement out of the VP-Ellipsis Site
Seungwan Ha (Kyungpook National University)

New Evidence for Long-Distance Agreement Without Movement: PCC Effects in Senaya
Laura Kalin, Laura McPherson (UCLA)

Against Partial WH-Movement in Russian
Natalia Korotkova (UCLA)

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Second Poster Session, Sunday 12:00-1:30

On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English
Jesse Harris (Pomona College)

Successive-Cyclic Movement as Recursive Symmetry Breaking
Andreas Blümel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Why There Must be Exceptions to Principle B
Thomas Graf (UCLA)

Polish Is Not a Bidirectional Stress System
Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz (NYU)

Evidence for Final Lengthening as Prominence
Nick Deschenes, Nick Kalivoda, Anya Lunden (UCSC, University of Georgia)

Structural and Accidental Phonotactic Gaps
Kyle Gorman (University of Pennsylvania)

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