Full Program
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
All sessions on Friday will take place at the Thompson Conference Center (TCC). The general session will be held at TCC 2.122 and the parallel session at TCC 1.126
| 08:30 | Registration desk open (coffee served) | |
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| 08:45 - 09:00 | TLSXII Opening Remarks: Richard Meier | |
| 09:00 - 11:15 | Morning General Session (at TCC 2.122) | |
| Moderator: Alexis Palmer | ||
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Deriving Aspectual Classes from Scales of Change John Beavers (UT Austin) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Effects of Focus Type and Argument Length on the Dative Alternation Mary Byram, Elsi Kaiser, Maria Zubizarreta (University of Southern California) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | break | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Morphological case and interpretation Aniko Csirmaz (University of Utah) | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Persian Number Agreement Hyun Jong Hahm (UT Austin) | |
| 09:30 - 11:15 | Morning Parallel Session (at TCC 1.126) | |
| Moderator: David Beaver | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | An Experimental Approach to Verb Phrase Ellipsis Laura Kertz (UC San Diego) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | break | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Licensing German Multiple Fronting in Context Philippa Cook, Felix Bildauer (Freie Universitaet Berlin) | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | The effect of NP type on the processing of French focus constructions Robert Reichle (Northern Illinois University), Emilie Destruel (UT Austin) | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Parallel Session Keynote (at TCC 2.122) A cross-linguistic investigation of pronouns and reflexives: Experiments on picture NPs in English and beyond Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 - 17:00 | Afternoon General Session (at TCC 2.122) | |
| Moderator: John Beavers | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Reduplication revised: reduplication in Sign Languages Francesca Forza (University of Verona) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | The Effect of Frequency on the Loss of Split-Intransitivity in Old Spanish Christopher Sams (Stephen F. Austin State University ) | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | break | |
| Moderator: Jason Baldridge | ||
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Classifiers and Mixed Content Eric McCready (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | How Might Metalinguistic Negation Work? Andy Rogers (Armadillo Research Institute) | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | break | |
| Moderator: Nicholas Gaylord | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | White Performances of a "Hip Hop Accent" Qiuana Lopez (UT Austin) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Focus on Conditional and Quantificational Coordination Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan) | |
| 13:30 - 15:15 | Afternoon Parallel Session (at TCC 1.126) | |
| Moderator: Katrin Erk | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Clitic vs. Agreement in Hungarian Elizabeth Coppock (Cycorp), Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Processing (Non-)Compositional Expressions: Context Effects Edward Holsinger, Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | break | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | A pragmatic resolution of a semantic conflict Hyuna Kim (University of Southern California) | |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | General Session Keynote (at TCC 2.122) Lexical semantics vs. lexical pragmatics: Aspects of a theory of un-verbs Laurence Horn (Yale University) |
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 (at Calhoun 100)
All sessions on Saturday will take place in Calhoun 100.
| 09:00 - 10:00 | General Session Keynote Strategic Shortcuts and Provisional Representations in Children's Language Learning Colin Bannard (UT Austin) |
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| 10:15 - 12:30 | Morning General Session |
| Moderator: Colin Bannard | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Chinese Conditionals Revisited: On Modal Implication and Pronoun Distributions Yahui Anita Huang (UT Austin) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Natural Logic, de Morgan Inferences, and Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic Frederick Hoyt (UT Austin) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Situation entities and genre distinctions in the Penn Discourse TreeBank Alexis Palmer, Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | The Contrastive Topic: Not Simply Contrastive + Topic Michihiko Kawamura (Shizuoka University) |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 17:45 | The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Opening Remarks: Stephen Wechsler |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | The De Se Theory of Indexicals: Convergent Evidence from Philosophy, Psychology, and Typology Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Sources of Lexical Inferences Lauri Karttunen (PARC/Stanford University) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | break |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Going from X to Y Annie Zaenen (PARC) |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Bounded-rational theory of mind for conversational implicature Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University) |
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 (at Calhoun 100)
All talks on Sunday will take place in Calhoun 100.
| 09:00 - 12:15 | The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Measurement and Intensionality in the Semantics of the Progressive Cleo Condoravdi (PARC/Stanford University) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Focus Contrast in Web Harvested Data Mats Rooth (Cornell University) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Implicatures in Discourse Nicholas Asher (UT Austin) |