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

08:30Registration desk open (coffee served)
08:45 - 09:00TLSXII Opening Remarks: Richard Meier
09:00 - 11:15Morning 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 - 11:15Morning 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 - 12:30Parallel 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 - 17:00Afternoon 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 - 15:15Afternoon 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)