Invited talks are 45 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion. Regular papers are 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of discussion.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21                                                                                                                

Registration and Coffee: 8:45-10:15 (smith room)

Morning session: 10:15-11:45

PARALLEL SESSION 1: VOICE ( moss )

 – chair: Almerindo Ojeda (University of California, Davis)

Easily in the middle

     Charles Jones (George Mason University)

A Verb Raising Analysis of Interrogatives in Spanish 

     Omar Beas (University of Southern California)

Syntax and semantics: Argument mapping and maturation in child passives

     Susannah Kirby (UNC-Chapel Hill)

PARALLEL SESSION 2: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (garrison)

 – chair: Cecilia Colombi (University of California, Davis)

Subject expression in monolingual Castilian Spanish 

     Ana de Prada Pérez (Penn State University)

The pragmatics of the choice between raised and non-raised complement structures in Korean: A corpus study 

     Hanjung Lee, Goeun Chae

Classroom interaction: What happens to reticent students?

     Weihua Zhu (University of Florida)

Lunch: 11:45-1:30

PLENARY SESSION: 1:30-2:30 (muii room)

WELCOME :Orhan Orgun (University of California, Davis)

INVITED SPEAKER: Diane Brentari (Purdue University)

How does a system become phonological? Grammatical Regularities at the Grammatical Interfaces 

Diane Brentari    

Break: 2:30-2:45

Early afternoon session: 2:45-3:45

SESSION 3: SEMANTICS (garrison)

- chair: Patrick Farrell (University of California, Davis)

Understood complements and complex logical forms 

     Martin Port (City University of NewYork)

When declaratives become evidentials: the case of Korean 

     Dongsik Lim (University of Southern California)

Break: 3:45-4:15

Late afternoon session: 4:15-5:45

PARALLEL SESSION 4: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (garrison)

- chair: David Corina (University of California, Davis)

Frequency-based expectations and context influence bridge quality 

     Anubha Kothari (Stanford University)

Animacy preference effects in Chinese relative clause processing 

     Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)

Computational cognitive modeling of reading comprehension at the word level

     Mary Dungan (L-3 Communications)

PARALLEL SESSION 5: QUANTIFIERS (muii)

- chair: Raul Aranovich (University of California, Davis)

A PF movement analysis of non-constituent scrambling  

     Brian Agbayani, Chris Golston, Toru Ishii (California State University, Fresno)

Intervention effects and quantificational (non)-exhaustivity of focus 

     Zhiguo XIE (Cornell University)

Quantified questions and event semantics

     Aviva Shimelman (San Jose State)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22                                                                                                                         

Registration and coffee: 8:00-9:00 (smith room)

Morning session: 9:00-10:30

PARALLEL SESSION 6: SPECIAL SESSION ON LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, NEUROLINGUISTICS, AND BRAIN IMAGING (muii)

- chair: Matthew Traxler (University of California, Davis)

Functional morphology in pre-symptomatic Huntington’s disease: evidence from Hungarian 

     Dezso Nemeth (University of Szeged/Georgetown University) ZsuZsa Londe, (University of California, Los Angeles), Cristina Dye, Michael Ullman ( Georgetown University), Tamás Sefcsik, Gabriella Gárdián, Péter Klivenyi, Géza Ambrus, László Vecsei (University of Szeged), Agnes Lukács,(Hungarian Academy of Science)

 ERP-evidence for laryngeal underspecification in English: a mismatch negativity study 

     Karthik Durvasula, Arild Hestvik, Catherine Bradley, Evan Bradley (University of Delaware)

PARALLEL SESSION 7: RELATIVE CLAUSES (garrison)

- chair: John Hawkins (University of California, Davis)

More appositives in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your linguistics 

     Francesca Del Gobbo (University of California, Irvine)

The effect of classifiers in predicting Chinese relative clauses 

     Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser, Elaine Andersen (University of Southern California)

Performance, competence, and extra prepositions 

     Joanna Nykiel

PARALLEL SESSION 8: NOMINALS (de carli)

- chair: Raul Aranovich (University of California, Davis)

Two paradoxes of English determination: the construction of complex number expressions

     Michael Ellsworth, Russell Lee-Goldman, Russell Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)

Partitivity and Thai split nominals 

     Pornsiri Singhapreecha, Rint Sybesma (Thammasat University)

A comparative analysis of determiners: on nominal structures in article-less languages 

     Soo Jung Chang (University of Georgia)

Break: 10:30-11:00

POSTER SESSION: 11:00-12:00 (muii)

Information structure of case on adjuncts in Korean

     Bo Kyoung Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Intrusive vowels as examples of gestural mistiming: evidence from Mandarin-English interlanguage

     Cory Messing (University of California, Davis)

Temporal adverbials in indirect speech: from a cross-linguistic perspective

      Hyuna B Kim (University of Southern California)

Perception of sub-phonemic contrasts: comparison of behavioral and event-related potential methodologies

     Michael Grosvald, David Corina (University of California, Davis)

Compositional telicity and heritage Russian aspect

     Oksana Laleko (University of Minnesota)

Topic-driven derivation and interpretation of verb copying in Mandarin Chinese

     Zhiguo XIE, (Cornell University) Yao YAO (University of California, Berkeley)

Lunch: 12:00-1:30

PLENARY SESSION: 1:30-2:30 (muii)

INVITED SPEAKER: Harald Baayen (University of Alberta)

Electrophysiological effects in language production: a picture naming study using generalized additive modeling

Harald Baayen, Peter Hendrix, Wieke Tabak and Rob Schreuder

Break: 2:30-3:00

Afternoon session: 3:00-5:00

PARALLEL SESSION 10A/10B: DRT/BILINGUALISM (muii)

- chair: Julia Menard-Warwick (University of California Davis)

Anaphoric resolution in conjunction and quantificational structures in discourse representation theory 

     So-Woo Chung (Sungshin Women's University/University of Washington)

Topic-focus articulation and DP scrambling as a focus movement in Japanese

     Koichiro Nakamura (Hiroshima Jogakuin University, Japan)

Bilinguals in China evidence for English as a Lingua Franca 

     Weihua Zhu (University of Florida)

Variation in Chicano English: the case of final (z)-devoicing 

     Robert Bayley, Cory Messing (University of California,Davis)

PARALLEL SESSION 11: SYNTAX (garrison)

- chair: Patrick Farrell (University of California, Davis)

So-inversion as polarity focus 

     Jim P. Wood (New York University)

CED effects, extraposition, and the final-over-final constraint 

     Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)

Strategies of subordination in Italian Sign Language

     Carlo Geraci, Cecchetto, Zucchi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

Dinner Reception: 7:00-10:00  (putah creek lodge)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23                                                                                                                               

Registration and coffee: 8:00-9:00 am (smith room)

Early morning session: 9:00-10:30

PARALLEL SESSION 12: ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS (garrison)

- chair: Robert Bayley (University of California Davis)

Familial tie or other social network link: Which is linguistically most relevant with be? 

     Gaillynn Clements (High Poimt University/University of Cambridge)

Scottish Gaelic: a case study in heritage language revival 

     William James, Michael McIntyre (University of Phoenix/EDMC/Cal State Northridge)

PARALLEL SESSION 13: PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY (de carli)

- chair: Travis Bradley (University of California, Davis)

Movement epenthesis in Italian Sign Language

     Carlo Geraci (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

A position class analysis of the Greek verbal paradigm 

     Sylvia L. Reed (University of Arizona)

A cartographic approach to multiple-modal constructions in Mandarin Chinese 

     Xiao-You, Kevin Huang (National Tsing Hua University)

Break: 10:30-11:00

Late morning session: 11:00-12:30

PARALLEL SESSION 14: PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY (garrison)

- chair: Orhan Orgun (University of California Davis)

Exemplars versus mental categories in the tonal phonology of Yoruba 

     Deepti Ramadoss (John Hopkins University)

Gestural coordination and secondary articulation in Judeo-Spanish

     Travis G Bradley (University of California, Davis)

PARALLEL SESSION 15: TOPIC/FOCUS (de carli)

- chair: Raul Aranovich (University of California, Davis)

Some syntactic considerations regarding the focalizing ser (‘to be’) construction in Colombian Spanish

     Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo (Indiana University)

A unified theory of contrastive topic and RFR (Rise-Fall-Rise) 

     Jieun Kim

Topic prominence as a typological dimension in syntactic change

     Thomas F. Shannon University of California, Berkeley)

Movement out of  ‘islands’: a case of finite embedded clauses

     Shiti Malhotra, Pritha Chandra (University of Maryland, College Park)