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) |