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Friday, November 4th: Texas Union Governor's Room

9:00

Keynote: Stephen Wechsler, University of Texas - Austin
The Austronesian WH Disagreement

10:00

Edith Aldridge:
Case in Ergative Languages and Split-Ergativity

10:30

Susan Smythe-Kung:
Numbers and Numeral Classifiers in Lhiimaqalhqama' (Huehuetla Tepehua)

11:00

Break

11:15

Gabriela Alboiu & Michael Barrie:
Split Applicative Phrases in Iroquoian: Severing the Argument from the Event

11:45

Judith  Tonhauser:
Benefactive and Purposive Constructions in Guarani: Semantic Extension of a Future-Oriented Temporal Morpheme

12:15

Lunch

1:30

Keynote: Sam Mchombo, University of California - Berkeley
Argument Binding and Morphology in Chichewa

2:30

Aimee Johansen:
Tense and Singular Agreement in Comorian

3:00

Brent Henderson:
The Syntax of Agreement in Bantu Relatives

3:30

Break

3:45

Tristan Purvis:
A Reanalysis of Non-Emphatic Pronouns in Dagbani

4:15

Ken Hiraiwa & Adams Bodomo:
Serial Verbs and Object Sharing in D`ag´a´ar`e: Evidence for Syntactic Sharing

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Saturday, November 5th: Parlin Room 1

9:00

Keynote: Andrew Garrett, University of California - Berkeley
Morphosyntactic Complexities and Mirages, or, An Indo-Europeanist in California

10:00

Seth Cable:
“Rule Replacement” in Lingít: The Importance of Morphosyntax to Morphophonology

10:30

Thomas Wier:
Clitic (?) Subject-Markers in Balsas Valley Nahuatl and the
Omnipredicativity Hypothesis

11:00

Break

11:15

Dimitrios Ntelitheos:
Malagasy Instrumental Nominalizations

11:45

Olya Gurevich:
Steal Me an Apple: Version in Georgian

12:15

Lunch

1:30

Keynote: Rose-Marie Déchaine, University of British Columbia
Evidential Marking Across the Cree Dialect Continuum

2:30

Eric  Mathieu:
Pseudo Noun Conflation in Ojibwa

3:00

Jason D. Haugen:
N Incorporation and Denominal V Constructions Reconsidered:
Uto-Aztecan Evidence for a Unified Syntactic Account

3:30

Break

3:45

Solveiga Armoskaite:
Sources of Temporal Interpretation in Plains Cree

4:15

N. Gulsat Aygen & Conor McDonough Quinn:
Finiteness Revisited: Mood Marking a [+independent] Feature at C

Time

Saturday Special Sessions, November 5th: Parlin Room 301

*Middle Eastern Languages Panel*

10:00

Pollet Samvelian:
What Sorani (Central) Kurdish Absolute Prepositions
Learn Us About Cliticization and Extraction

10:30

Karine David:
Number Marking in Maltese

11:00

Tomoyuki Yabe:
Morphological Transitivization and Causativization
 in Amharic and Classical Ethiopic (Ge‘ez)

*South Asian Languages Panel*

2:30

Christina Willis:
Clause-Chaining and Non-Finite Verb Marking in a Tibeto-Burman Language

3:00

Ascander Dost:
A Domain-Based Approach to 2P Clitics in Pashto

3:30

Peter Slomanson:
The Development of Tense and Finiteness in the Morphosyntax of Sri Lankan Malay

Time

Sunday, November 6th: Parlin Room 1

9:00

Keynote: Lisa Green, University of Texas - Austin
-ing as an Agreement Marker in African American English: Implications for Acquisition

10:00

Erika Troseth:
Appalachian English They-Existentials

10:30

Hans C. Boas & Hunter Weilbacher:
Wir Haben die Car in die Garage Gemoved, y'know? -or- The Syntax of Bilingual Discourse Markers in Texas German

11:00

Have a safe trip home!