Program: General Session
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 (at TCC 2.122)
| 09:00 - 11:15 | Morning Session |
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| 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) |
| 13:30 - 17:00 | Afternoon Session |
| 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) |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | Keynote Lexical semantics vs. lexical pragmatics: Aspects of a theory of un-verbs Laurence Horn (Yale University) |
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 (at Calhoun 100)
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote Strategic Shortcuts and Provisional Representations in Children's Language Learning Colin Bannard (UT Austin) |
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| 10:15 - 12:30 | Morning 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) |