LINGUISTICS AT SANTA CRUZ

Stevenson Fireside Lounge, March 7-8, 2008

FRIDAY

2:25            WELCOME

2:30            Scott AnderBois           Strong positions in Yukatek Maya

3:00            Katrina Vahedi            Participial gapping: evidence for post-syntactic morphological agreement

3:30            Matt Barros               Verbless questions in Brazilian Portuguese

4:00            BREAK

4:15            Andrew Dowd               Irish agreement

4:45            Paul Willis               Strategic inference and neutralization of the unmarked

SATURDAY

10:00           Judith Fiedler            Phrasing, focus, and the sentential position of German weak pronounss

10:30           Gigi Ying                 An analysis of ‘gauging’     

11:00           Abby Kaplan               Perceptual and articulatory influences on phonological alternations

11:30           LUNCH

12:45           Amanda Morris             Polarity ellipsis

1:15            Jeremy O’Brien            Restrictions on English possessors

1:45            BREAK

2:00            ALUMNA SPEAKER:

                Christine Gunlogson,      Quality, Commitment, and Context                 
                University of Rochester