Preliminary Conference Program(subject to change) 2001 Texas Linguistic Society Conference The Role of Agreement in Natural Language March 2-4, Austin, Texas8:30-9:30am COFFEE & REGISTRATION 9:30-10:00am OPENING REMARKS Session 1 10:00-10:30am Number, Gender and Person Agreement in Prenominal Possessives Nancy Mae Antrim, UT-El Paso 10:30-11:00am Agreement Patterns in Maasai Possessive DPs Gianluca Storto, UCLA 11:00-11:30am Inflected Complementizers and the Licensing of Non-referential Pro-drop Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Universite de Poitiers 11:30-1:00pm LUNCH Session 2 1:00-1:30pm Lexical, Semantic, and Structural Gender Stephen Wechsler, UT-Austin 1:30-2:00pm Quantifier Agreement in Korean Sungeun Cho, MIT 2:00-2:30pm D-raising and Asymmetric Agreement in French Antonia Androutsopoulou, UCLA Manuel Español Echevarría, Université Laval 2:30-2:45pm BREAK Session 3 2:45-3:15pm Hybrid Agreement in English Jong-bok Kim, Kyung Hee University Kyung-Sup Lim, Dongshin University 3:15-3:45pm The Functional Projections of Split Subjects Mary S. Linn, University of Kansas Sara Thomas Rosen, University of Kansas 3:45-4:15pm Agreement: Terms and Boundaries Greville Corbett, University of Surrey 4:15-4:45pm Towards a Typology of Agreement Phenomena Tania Avgustinova, University of Saarland Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI 4:45-5:00pm BREAK Keynote Address 5:00-6:00pm Functional Categories and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface Margaret Speas, UMASS 6:30pm Happy Hour (at Dog & Duck Pub) Saturday, March 3rd 8:30-9:00am COFFEE & REGISTRATION Keynote Address 9:00-10:00am The Locality of Agreement Hilda Koopman, UCLA 10:00-10:15am BREAK Session 1 10:15-10:45am Agree, Move and Eliminate the Phrase Impenetrability Condition Sandra Stjepanovic, Kanda University of International Studies Shoichi Takahashi, Kanda University of International Studies 10:45-11:15am Defective Feature Copy and Anti-agreement in Language Production Roland Pfau, Johan-Wolfgang-Goethe University 11:15-11:45am Resumptive Strategies, Hyperraising and Left-branch Violations as Effects of Anti-agreement Cedric Boeckx, UCONN 11:45-1:00pm LUNCH Session 2 1:00-1:30pm Adjectival Agreement and the Individual-Event Distinction in Balanta Kirsten Fudeman, Ithaca College 1:30-2:00pm Agreement, Specificity Effects, and Phrase Structure in Rural Palestinian Arabic Existential Constructions Fredrick M. Hoyt, UT-Austin 2:00-2:30pm Morphological and Semantic Plurality in Hebrew Ron Artstein, Rutgers University 2:30-3:00pm A Morphological and Pragmatic Approach to Korean Partial Honorific Agreement In-Cheol Choi, UT-Austin 3:00-3:15pm BREAK Session 3 3:15-3:45pm Agreement Features in Sentence Processing: A Sentence-matching Study on Subject-verb and Noun Phrase Internal Agreement in German Ulrike Jansen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Sonja Eisenbeiss, Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet 3:45-4:15pm Aspects of Agreement: Evidence that Agreement Morphology and Aspectual Distinctions are Acquired Independently by Child L2 Learners Tania Ionin, MIT 4:15-4:45pm Partial Agreement and Attraction by F[person] Ivy Sichel, CUNY 4:45-7:00pm DINNER 7:00-11:00pm TLS Party Sunday, March 3rd 8:30-9:00am COFFEE & REGISTRATION Keynote Address 9:00-10:00am The Two Faces of Agreement Sandra Chung, UC-Santa Cruz 10:00-10:15am BREAK Session 1 10:15-10:45am The Optionality of Agreement Phrase: Evidence from Signed Languages Christian Rathmann, UT-Austin 10:45-11:15am French Object Agreement with Restructuring Verbs Eric Mathieu, University College London 11:15-11:30am BREAK Session 2 11:30-12:00pm Displaced Agreement Suffix in Suleimaniya Kurdish: A Distributed Morphology Approach Behrad Aghaei, UT-Austin 12:00-12:30pm Feature Movement Approach to Subject Agreement in Korean Changguk Yim, Cornell University 12:30-1:00pm CONCLUDING REMARKS Alternates Long-distance Agreement in Hindi Rajesh Bhatt, UT-Austin The Status of Agreement Phrase in Universal Grammar William Earl Grifin, UT-Austin
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