Program: General Session

Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 (at TCC 2.122)

09:00 - 11:15Morning Session
 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 - 17:00Afternoon 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 - 10:00Keynote
Strategic Shortcuts and Provisional Representations in Children's Language Learning
Colin Bannard (UT Austin)
10:15 - 12:30Morning 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)