Pre-registration Reception:
You are welcome to join us on Thursday, October 18th for an informal reception and a chance to register for NELS43 following the CUNY Graduate Center Special Colloquium on East-Asian Linguistics featuring Peter Sells (York) and James Yoon (UIUC) from 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM. The colloquium is open to the public and registration is not required. The informal reception (5:30 PM – 8:00 PM) will include snacks and wine and a chance to mingle for those who get into NYC a night early.
Paper Guidelines
Poster Guidelines
NB: First-time visitors to CUNY Graduate Center must sign in at the security desk located in the ground-floor lobby, showing some form of photo ID. Take any elevator to the seventh floor, where signs provide directions to the Linguistics Lounge. Once you register, the name badge will allow you access to the building.
Program
The complete Program and information booklet can be downloaded here.
The complete Abstracts booklet (alphabetical by first author) can be downloaded here.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 – At the CUNY Graduate Center
In the Linguistics Lounge on the 7th Floor:
8:00 REGISTRATION and COFFEE
– After 9:15, all Friday events are on the Concourse Level –
In the Proshansky Auditorium:
9:15 OPENING REMARKS
9:30 Barbara Citko, University of Washington & Martina Gracanin-Yuksek, Middle East Technical University
Wh-coordination in free relatives
10:00 Carlo Cecchetto, University of Milan Bicocca,Caterina Donati, University of Roma Sapienza
& Mirta Vernica,University of Milan Bicocca
Relative clauses vs clausal complements of nouns: Reversing the picture
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 Elliott Moreton & Katya Pertsova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pastry phonotactics
11:15 Michael Becker, Indiana University & Maria Gouskova, New York University
Source-oriented generalizations as grammar inference in yer deletion
11:45 Eugene Buckley, University of Pennsylvania
Spanish secondary stress without gradient alignment
12:15 LUNCH BREAK
1:45 Invited speaker: Tarald Taraldsen, University of Tromsø
Modeling the Neighborhood Hypothesis for syncretisms
2:45 POSTER SESSION I (rooms C201-C204 on the Concourse level)
Boris Harizanov, University of California at Santa Cruz & Vera Gribanova Stanford University
Inward sensitive contextual allomorphy and its conditioning factors
Sangim Lee, New York University
Syntax-based phonological asymmetries: The case of adjective reduplication in Mandarin Chinese
Josef Fruehwald, University of Pennsylvania [ALT]
Phonology has an early effect on sound changes
Peter Jurgec, Meertens Institute [ALT]
Morphology affects loanword phonology
Maria Biezma, Daniel Siddiqi, Carleton University & Andrew Carnie, University of Arizonay
Counterfactuality in non-standard subjunctive conditional
Erin Zaroukian, Johns Hopkins University
(Just) about: An analysis
Gregory Kierstead, Ohio State University [ALT]
(Non-)speaker oriented conventional implicatures: A case study of Tagalog sana
Timothy Leffel, New York University & University of Potsdam, Radek Šimik & Marta Wierzba, University of Potsdam
Information structure and pronominal morphology in Basaá
Yasutada Sudo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Person and number features on bound pronouns and the structure of indices
Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart, Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete & Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut [ALT]
Movement vs. long distance Agree in raising: Disappearing phases and feature valuation
Alan Bale, Concordia University
Agreement without AGREE: Disjunction in Mi’gmaq
Matthew Barros, Rutgers University
Else-modification as a diagnostic for pseudosluicing
Jaehoon Choi, University of Arizona
The locus of person feature, agreement, and DP/CP parallelism
William Haddican, CUNY Queens College & Daniel Ezra Johnson, University of Lancaster
Focus effects on particle placement in English and the left periphery of PP
Megumi Hasebe,Yokohama National University & Hideki Maki, Gifu University
The That-adverb-trace effect in English: A visual analogue scale analysis
Laura Kalin, University of California, Los Angeles
Last resort structure building: Agreement and argument licensing in Senaya
Dalina Kallulli, University of Vienna
Bavarian parasitic gaps revisited
Eunah Kim, Myeong Hyeon Kim & James Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An experimental investigation of on-line and off-line binding properties of Korean reflexive
Neil Myler, New York University
Cliticization feeds agreement: A view from Quechua
Maziar Toosarvandani and Coppe van Urk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Directionality and intervention in nominal concord: Evidence from Zazaki ezafe
Jean Crawford, University of Connecticut
Verbal passives in child English: Evidence from judgments of purpose phrases
Michael Frazier, Northwestern University
Argument structure-driven parsing in Tagalog
In the Proshansky Auditorium:
4:45 Dan Velleman, University of Texas at Austin
Believe possible verbs: Would you believe they’re possible after all?
5:15 Peter Klecha, University of Chicago
Modal constraints on temporal reference
5:45 COFFEE BREAK
6:00 Hazel Pearson, Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin
A semantic theory of partial control
6:30 Jessica Coon, McGill University
Predication, predicate fronting, and what it takes to be a verb
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 – At Hunter College
In room HW615:
9:00 Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine & Hadas Kotek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diagnosing covert pied-piping
9:30 Gary Thoms, University of Edinburgh
Constraints on exceptional ellipsis are only parallelism effects
10:00 Dennis Ott & Mark de Vries, University of Groningen
Right-dislocation as deletion
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 Philippe Schlenker, Institut Jean-Nicod, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & New York University and Jonathan Lamberton
Iconic variables in ASL and LSF
11:15 Seth Cable, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Distance distributivity and pluractionality in Tlingit (and beyond)
11:45 Alan Bale, Concordia University, and Jessica Coon, McGill University
Classifiers are for numerals, not for nouns
12:15 LUNCH BREAK
1:45 Invited speaker: Juliette Blevins, CUNY Graduate Center
How diverse are repairs for multiple labial consonants?
2:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:00 Charles Yang, Kyle Gorman, Jennifer Preys & Margaret Borowczyk, University of Pennsylvania
Productivity and paradigm gaps
3:30 Annie Gagliardi, Harvard University, Alexis Wellwood & Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
With no help from syntax: Four models of meaning choice for novel adjectives
4:00 POSTER SESSION II (In the Faculty Dining room, 8th floor)
Allan Jay Schwade, University of California, Santa Cruz
Modality matters: What online adaptations can tell us about loanwords
Sam Steddy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A regular rule of palatalization in Italian verbs
Karthik Durvasula and Jimin Kahng, Michigan State University
Phonological alternations modulate illusory vowel perception
Jeremy Kuhn, New York University
Harmony via positive agreement: Evidence from trigger-based count effects
Kristen Syrett & Georgia Simon, Rutgers University & Kirsten Nisula, Ohio State University
Speakers and hearers use prosody to disambiguate scopally-ambiguous sentences
Hanna de Vries, University of Utrecht [ALT]
Lexical distributivity with group nouns and property indefinites
Lisa Bylinina, University of Utrecht
Judge-dependence in degree constructions
Esra Kesici, Cornell University
Embedded root phenomena in Turkish: A paratactic analysis of ki-clauses
Diego Pescarini, University of Padua
Double object constructions and the PCC: Evidence from Italian
Marcel Pitteroff and Florian Schäfer, University of Stuttgart
The argument structure of reflexively marked anticausatives and middles: Evidence from datives
Jelena Runic, University of Connecticut [ALT]
A new look at argument ellipsis: Evidence from Slavic
Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge
Partial control, inflected infinitives and defective intervention
Gianina Iordachioaia, University of Stuttgart [ALT]
The interaction between NP and DP in nominalizations
Tara McAllister Byun, New York University and Sharon Inkelas, University of California at Berkeley
Child consonant harmony and phonologization of performance errors
Aaron Steven White, Rachel Dudley, Valentine Hacquard & Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland [ALT]
Discovering classes of attitude verbs using subcategorization frame distributions
Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Morgan Purrier and Rebekah Ward, Northwestern University
The processing of backward sluicing
5:30 Alexandra Simonenko, McGill University
Microvariation in head-exponent alignment: Finno-Ugric
6:00 Hyon Sook Choe, Yeungnam University
The functional category COM(PARISON) and its double complement structure
6:30 NELS BUSINESS MEETING
7:00 Conference Dinner (In the Faculty Dining Room on the 8th floor)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 – At Hunter College
In room HW615:
9:00 Norvin Richards and Coppe van Urk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On the architecture of long-distance extraction: Evidence from Dinka
9:30 Andrew Weir, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Why-stripping targets Voice Phrase
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:15 Roberta D’Alessandro, LUCL Leiden &Tobias Scheer, University of Nice
Modular PIC
10:45 Elan Dresher, Christopher Harvey & Will Oxford, University of Toronto
Contrast shift as a kind of diachronic change
11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Guillaume Thomas, Institut Jean-Nicod, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Embedded imperatives in Mbyá
12:00 Andreea Nicolae, Harvard University
An alternative account of distribution of NPIs in interrogatives
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 Invited Speaker: Robert Frank, Yale University
Believing our grammars
Workshop in Computational Linguistics
3:15 Kyle Gorman, University of Pennsylvania
Categorical and gradient aspects of wordlikeness judgements
3:45 Kevin Tang and Andrew Nevins, University College London
Naturalistic Speech Misperception – A Computational Corpus-based Study
4:15 BREAK
4:25 Giorgio Magri, SFL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Restrictiveness of error-driven ranking algorithms
4:55 Bruce Tesar, Rutgers University
When Worst Is Best: Grammar Construction in Phonological Learning