the chicago linguistic society

8:00	Registration and Coffee
9:15	Welcome
9:30	Locality in Phonology
9:30	Sharon Gerlach (University of Minnesota):
	Consonant harmony and non-local metathesis in phonological development: The acquisition of consonant feature sequences
10:00	Eric Bakovic (University of California San Diego):
	Local blocking and minimal violation
10:30	Adam Wayment (Johns Hopkins University):
	Integrating preconditions on parasitic vowel harmony
11:00	Max Bane & Ed King (University of Chicago):
	Local predictability in the lexicon
11:30	Break
11:45	Invited Speaker: Ivan Sag
12:45	Lunch
2:00	Locality in Syntax I
2:00	Yosuke Sato & Dwi Hesti Yuliani (University of British Columbia):
	Phase-bound locality, deletion, and failure of vocabulary insertion at the syntax-phonology interface
2:30	Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University):
	On Left-Branch Extraction (LBE) and Left-Branch Condition (LBC) effects
3:00	Sverre Johnsen (Harvard University):
	Non-local binding in tenseless clauses
3:30	Alex Drummond (University of Maryland):
	The unity of extraposition and the A/A-bar distinction
4:00	Break
4:15	Invited Speaker: Kyle Johnson
TBA	Graduate Student Mixer
	Location: University of Chicago Pub in the basement of Ida Noyes, 1212 East 59th Street

8:00	Registration and Coffee

	Home Room	National Room
9:00	Syntax I	Computational Phonology
9:00	Jeremy Rafal (The City University of New York):	Marc Ettlinger, Ann Bradlow & Patrick Wong (Northwestern University):
	On the structure of associative plurals: a view from Hawaiian Creole English	The persistence and obliteration of opaque Interactions
9:30	Michael Diercks (Georgetown University):	Max Bane & Jason Riggle (University of Chicago):
	Subject extraction and anti-agreement effects in Bukusu: A Criterial Freezing Approach	Evaluating Strict Domination: The Typological Consequences of Weighted Constraints
10:00	Pei-Jung Kuo (University of Connecticut):	Silke Hamann, Diana Apoussidou & Paul Boersma (University of Dusseldorf):
	Differential Object Marking in Mandarin Chinese	Modeling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the mental lexicon
10:30	Vincent Homer & Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California Los Angeles):	Peter Graff & T. Florian Jaeger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
	Looking at Japanese Causatives from a French Perspective	The OCP is a pressure to keep words distinct: Evidence from Aymara, Dutch and Javanese

11:00	Break
11:15	Invited Speaker: Paul Boersma
12:15	Lunch

1:30	Syntax Locality II	Pragmatics
1:30	Daniel Buring (University of California Los Angeles):	Jennifer Mack & Yael Fuerst (Yale University):
	The Non-Locality of Predicate Integration	English Optional Expletives and the Pragmatics of Judgments
2:00	Brent Henderson (University of Florida):	Rachel Szekely (Long Island University):
	Anti-Agreement: Locality of Movement or Agreement?	Existential Dependencies: Holes, problems and other flaws in the argument
2:30	Jesse Harris (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):	Luis Alonso-Ovalle ():
	Locality, Event-construal and Extraction: Evidence from Language Processing	Scalar Additive Particles in Biased Questions: Evidence from Spanish

3:00

Break

3:15	Experiments in Structure and Meaning	Nothing but Nasals
3:15	Susannah Kirby (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill):	Hiroki Nomoto (University of Minnesota):
	Child passives: A-chain maturation or argument mismatches?	More on Austronesian nasal substitution
3:45	Erin Tavano and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California):	William G. Bennett (Rutgers University):
	Eye-movement evidence of effort in scalar implicature processing	The Distribution & Representation of Nasalized Clicks
4:15	Hyun Kyung Hwang (Cornell University):	Caleb Everett (University of Miami):
	The role of prosody and pragmatics on wh-scope assignment in Korean and Japanese	Understanding the adjacency of nasal oralization and stress in Karitiana

4:45	Break
5:00	Invited Speaker: Chris Potts

8:00	Registration and Coffee

	Home Room	National Room
9:00	Semantics	Phonology
9:00	Carlos Balhana (Georgetown University):	Karen Jesney (University of Massachusetts Amherst):
	What Does This Even Mean? Modality, Ordering and Focus	Licensing in Multiple Contexts: An Argument for Harmonic Grammar
9:30	Eun-Hae Park (University of Chicago):	James Gruber (Georgetown University):
	Definite Free Choice Analysis in Korean	The Composition of Phonological Tone in Burmese
10:00	Zhiguo Xie (Cornell University):	Olga Vaysman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
	A two-layer analysis of ability modality -- a case study of able to	Mansi Rhythmic Allomorphy
10:30	Olga Eremina (Michigan State):	Peter Jenks & Sharon Rose (Harvard University & University of California San Diego):
	Ambiguity or Unification? Choice Function Approach to -TO indefinites in Russian	Syllable weight and High Tone in Moro

11:00	Break
11:15	Invited Speaker: Lenore Grenoble
	Losing it in Siberia: Assessing the impact of contact
12:15	Lunch

1:30	Syntax II	Language Change
1:30	Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University/University of Connecticutt/JSPS):	Matt Bauer (Illinois Institute of Technology):
	Genuine' Sluicing in Japanese	Sound change and functionalism: The role of laryngeal height
2:00	Vincent Homer (University of California, Los Angeles):	Kelly L. Maynard (University of Chicago):
	Backward Control in Samoan	The Aspect Marker pe in Samsun Albanian
2:30	Jackie Bunting (University of Chicago):	Ashley Lober & Brenda H. Boerger (The University of Texas at Arlington & Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics):
	Comparing quality and quantity in Ewe: a look at the serial wu	Spatial Relationships in Natugu: Micro-level Directionals

3:00

Break

3:15	Degrees and More	Discourse and Interaction
3:15	Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University):	M. Catherine Gruber:
	Degree Modification of Extreme Adjectives	I just wanna apologize: The socio-interactional meanings of just in defendants' apologies
3:45	Julie Li Jiang (Harvard University):	Matt Garley, Benjamin Slade & Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
	Monotonicity and Measure Phrases in Chinese	Hwaet! LOL! Common formulaic functions in Beowulf and blogs
4:15	Jozina Vander Klok (McGill University):	Diana Marinova (American University):
	Indirect modification in Javanese: Evidence from attributive comparatives	Collaborators or Underminers of the Dispute Resolution Process? Disputants Reaction to Mediators Assessments

4:45	Break
5:00	Invited Speaker: Rachel Walker
6:30	Banquet

Daniel Michel(University of California San Diego):
Positional Transparency in cLela
(Phonology)

Christopher Straughn (University of Chicago):
Exceptional Case Marking in Uzbek Complementizer Clauses
(Syntax)

Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois):
Variationist methodology in pragmatics: (how) can it be done?
(Pragmatics)

Kevin McGowan (University of Michigan):
Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law
(Computational Phonology)

Kenneth Olson & D. Will Reiman (SIL International and University of North Dakota & SIL International):
The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko (Guinea-Bissau)
(Nothing but Nasals)

Yusuke Kubota (Ohio State):
More on scale structure and degree modification: the case of kanari in Japanese
(Semantics)

E-Ching Ng (Yale University):
Singaporean English word-level tone assignment: An optimality theory account
(Language change)

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