Schedule
(Click on talk title to view abstract)
Jump to: Day 2 Posters
All events will be held at the Thomson House Ballroom
| May 17th: | |
| 8:30–9:00 | breakfast |
| 9:00–9:15 | opening remarks |
| 9:15–10:15 |
Susi Wurmbrand (presenting collaborative work with Magdalena Lohninger) Implicational hierarchies in the domain of complementation |
| 10:15–10:30 | break |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Julianne Doner How to organize parameters: Accounting for alternations in EPP type |
| 11:00–12:00 |
Michelle Sheehan When can you passivise causatives? A phase-based account |
| 12:00–2:00 | lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00–2:30 |
Kazuya Nishimaki Japanese V-V compounds as strong resultatives: The interaction between macroparametric and microparametric requirement |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Vicki Carstens Gender parameters: How grammatical gender licenses nP-internal subjects |
| 3:00–3:15 | break |
| 3:15–4:15 |
Henry Davis (presenting collaborative work with Gloria Mellesmoen) Is there a degree semantics parameter? Evidence from Salish |
| 4:15–4:30 | break |
| 4:30–5:30 |
Mark Baker (presenting collaborative work with Livia Camargo Souza) Parameterizing Agree to get a very different effect: Switch-reference and reflexive voice in Panoan |
| 5:30–8:45 | party at Thomson House |
| May 18th: | |
| 9:00–9:30 | breakfast |
| 9:30–10:30 |
Ileana Paul Microparametric variation in proper determiners |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Jurij Božič Microparameters of DP-licensing and Case Discrimination |
| 11:00–11:15 | break |
| 11:15–11:45 |
Norvin Richards Contiguity-prominence: a prosodic parameter with syntactic consequences |
| 11:45–12:15 |
Heather Goad, Nátalia Brambatti Guzzo and Lydia White Crosslinguistic variation in relative clause attachment: implications of a prosodic perspective for second language acquisition |
| 12:15–1:45 |
poster session and lunch buffet (jump to posters) |
| 1:45–2:15 |
Itamar Kastner The Voice parameter in argument structure alternations |
| 2:15–2:45 |
Nico Baier, Jessica Coon and Theodore Levin Mayan Agent Focus and the Ergative Extraction Constraint |
| 2:45–3:00 | break |
| 3:00–4:00 |
Laura Kalin Parameters of allomorphy and infixation |
| 4:00–4:15 | break |
| 4:15–5:15 |
Lisa Travis Micro-variation and macro-parameters |
| Posters: |
|
Abdel-Rahman Hani Abu Helal
On the L2 Acquisition of embedded Tense in Before-Clause: A bi-directional study of a truth conditional mismatch |
|
Calixto Aguero
Deriving Directionality Parameters from Functional Typing |
|
Nico Baier
The locus of variation in types of Ā-sensitive agreement |
|
Brian Hsu
Prominence-based licensing in head movement and head bundling |
|
Yining Nie
Applicatives and the parameters of promotion |
|
Hisao Tokizaki
Head parameter and the prosody in Chinese |