Announcing:
The
University of Maryland
at College Park’s
Fall 1998
Linguistics Department
Student Conference
October 22nd and 23rd
Marie Mount Hall
1108B (Seminar Room)
For more information contact jdrury@wam.umd.edu
DAY ONE:Thursday, October 22, Seminar Room (1108B MMH)
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9:30-9:55 |
ARRIVE: Coffee and Bagels Served |
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9:55-10:00 |
Opening Remarks |
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TALKS |
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(1) 10:00-10:30 |
Peggy Antonisse (psycholinguistics) "Aspectual Influence in Processing Temporal Modifiers" |
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(2) 10:30-11:00 |
Ana Gouvea (phonology) "Stress in Kuikuro (Caribe): Some OT Considerations" |
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11:00-11:15 |
SHORT BREAK |
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(3) 11:15-11:45 |
Juan Carlos Castillo (syntax) "Possessor Raising & the Nature of Different Possessive Relations" |
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(4) 11:45-12:15 |
Fred Savarese (language acquisition) TBA |
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12:15-1:30
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LUNCH BREAK |
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(5) 1:30-2:00 |
Maximiliano Guimaraes (syntax/phonology) "In Defense of Vacuous Projections in Bare Phrase Structure" |
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(6) 2:00-2:30 |
Caro Struijke (phonology) "Markedness Domains, Reduplicant Size, and Locus of TETU Alternations: A Cross-Linguistic Study" |
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2:30-2:45 |
SHORT BREAK |
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(7) 2:45-3:15 |
Itziar San Martin (syntax) "Argumenthood and Relativization" |
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(8) 3:15-3:45 |
Bruce Morén (phonology) "Distinctive Moraicity in Two Hungarian Dialects" |
DAY TWO:Friday, October 23rd, Seminar Room (1108B MMH)
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9:30-9:55 |
ARRIVE: Coffee and Bagels Served |
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9:55-10:00 |
Opening Remarks |
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TALKS |
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(9) 10:00-10:30 |
Claudia Brovetto & Shiraz Nerenberg *Georgetown University* (syntax) "Pronouns and the Structure of DP" |
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(10) 10:30-11:00 |
Yi-Ching Su (acquisition) "A Cross-Linguistic Study on Quantifier Scope in Child Language: English vs. Chinese" |
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11:00-11:15 |
SHORT BREAK |
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(11) 11:15-11:45 |
Kleanthes K. Grohmann (syntax) "More Extractions with More Questions: DRQ, Multiple Wh, and Wh-islands" |
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(12) 11:45-12:15 |
Frida Morelli (phonology) TBA |
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12:15-1:30
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LUNCH BREAK
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(13) 1:30-2:00 |
John Drury (syntax) "The Status of Precedence" |
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(14) 2:00-2:30 |
Lucia Quintana (semantics) "The Semantics of Reciprocals" |
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2:30-2:45 |
SHORT BREAK |
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(15) 2:45-3:15 |
Stephan Greene (computational phonology) "Design of an Optimality Theoretic Edit Distance Cost Table" |
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3:15-4:15
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SPECIAL GUEST CLOSING SPEAKER Jairo Nunes "Portuguese Inflected Infinitives and Checking Configurations" |