Here is the .pdf version of the Program for LSRL43 (updated 4/16/13; please note that the Program will be updated periodically. Check date in header of .pdf document for latest version).

Here is the .pdf version of the LSRL43_Abstract Booklet.  Registered attendees will receive a bound paper-copy at the conference.

 

BREAKFAST NOTE: EACH MORNING, BREAKFAST BEGINS AT 8:00am.

 

PROGRAM (with links to abstracts):

FIRST DAY: APRIL 17 (Wednesday):

Breakfast, 8:00-9:30am (C201)

Opening Remarks, 9:30-10:00am (C204/205):

• William Fritz, President, the College of Staten Island
• Louise Lennihan, Associate Provost and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences, The Graduate Center
• Gita Martohardjono, Executive Officer of the Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center

10:00-11:00am: Invited talk (C204/205). Ricardo Otheguy, The CUNY Graduate Center, A linguistic tour of Latino New York (with emphasis on second generation bilinguals) (Chair: Gita Martohardjono)

11:00-11:30am: Coffee Break (C201)

11:30am-12:30pm: Session 1:

Session 1.1 (Syntax/Semantics), C202; Chair: Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

• On capacities and their epistemic extensions, Elena Castroviejo & Isabel Oltra-Massuet
• Root que in Spanish. Evidentiality vs. Insubordination, Violeta Demonte & Olga Fernandez-Soriano

Session 1.2 (Acquisition), C203; Chair: Ricardo Otheguy

• Converging on probabilistic grammatical patterning, Naomi Lapidus Shin
• Atoms of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies, Anamaria Bentea & Stephanie Durrleman

Session 1.3 (Syntax), C204/205; Chair: Cecilia Poletto

• The Italian locative lì as a topic head and the typology of topics, Marco Nicolis
• The make-up of clitic clusters in the history of (Gallo-)Romance, Diego Pescarini

12:30-2:30pm Lunch Break

2:30-3:30pm: Session 2:

Session 2.1 (Phonetics/Phonology), C202; Chair: Lori Repetti

• French loanwords in Korean: Modeling lexical knowledge in OT, Haike Jacobs
• “Toned-up” Spanish: stress -> pitch -> tone(?) in Equitorial New Guinea, John Lipski

Session 2.2 (Acquisition), C203; Chair: Gregory Guy

• Input variability and late acquisition: Clitic misplacement in European Portuguese, João Costa, Alexandra Fiéis, & Maria Lobo
• Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese and Chilean Spanish: Variation effects in L1 acquisition, Cristina Schmitt

Session 2.3 (Syntax), C204/205; Chair: Daniel Kaufman

• At the PF Interface: Negation and clitic clusters, Jacopo Garzonio & Cecilia Poletto
• Reviewing constituent negation in Spanish, Ricardo Etxepare & Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break (C201)

4:00-5:00pm: Session 3:

Session 3.1 (Phonetics/Phonology/Experimental), C202; Chair: Douglas H. Whalen

• Perception of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native Spanish speakers, Natalia Mazzaro, Alejandro Cuza, & Laura Colantoni
• Going, going, gone? Devoicing of unstressed vowels in São Paolo Portuguese, Ronald Beline-Mendes & James Walker

Session 3.2 (Syntax/Semantics), C203; Chair: Marcel den Dikken

• On the genericity of mass indefinites, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
• Dimensions of definiteness in French-based creoles, Viviane Déprez

Session 3.3 (Historical Syntax), C204/205; Chair: William Haddican

• Participle fronting and clause structure in Old and Middle French, Marie Labelle
• Old French possessives and ellipses, Deborah Arteaga & Julia Herschensohn

5:00-7:00: RECEPTION (Skylight Room, Ninth Floor)

 

SECOND DAY: APRIL 18 (Thursday):

Breakfast, 8:00-9:00am (C201)

9:00am-12:30pm: SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION ON ROMANCE PARSED CORPORA (C204/205); Chair: Christina Tortora

• 9:00-10:00am, Anthony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini, U. of Pennsylvania, The syntactic evolution of French as seen in the MCVF corpus
  

15 minute break (10:00-10:15am)

•  10:15-11:15am, Charlotte Galves, U. of Campinas, The Tycho Brahe Corpus of Historical Portuguese: Methodology and results
  

15 minute break (11:15-11:30am)

• 11:30am-12:30pm, Ana Maria Martins, U. of Lisbon, Dialect syntax through corpora: the subject doubling se construction
  

12:30-2:30pm: Lunch Break; Business Meeting (partially overlapping with lunch): 2:00-2:30 (Room C204/205)

2:30-3:30pm: Session 4:

Session 4.1 (Syntax/Semantics), C202; Chair: Julia Herschensohn

• French modals “falloir” and “devoir” and antecedent determination in Control Clauses, Lisa Reed & Marc Authier
• The epistemic and counterfactual interpretations of present perfect pouvoir in French, Alda Mari

Session 4.2 (Experimental), C203; Chair: Isabelle Barrière

• Analyzing the structure of code-switched written texts: The case of Guaraní-Spanish Jopara, Bruno Estigarribia & Zachary Wilkins
• Beyond the subject DP vs. the subject pronoun divide in agreement in Spanish, Juana Liceras, Raquel Fernández Fuertes, & Anahí Alba de la Fuente

Session 4.3 (Historical Syntax), C204/205; Chair: Beatrice Santorini

• The distribution of bare nominals in Old French: A quantitative analysis of two 12th Century texts, Monique Dufresne, Mireille Tremblay, & Rose-Marie Déchaine
• Pre-verbal subjects, information structure, and object clitic position in Old Occitan, Bryan Donaldson

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break (C201)

4:00-5:00pm: Session 5:

Session 5.1 (Phonetics), C202; Chair: Barbara Bullock

• On Southwestern Sinalefa, Brian Funk
• Development of a spontaneous speech corpus for the articulatory study of consonantal weakening, Laura Colantoni & Alexei Kochetov

Session 5.2 (Syntax), C203; Chair: Cristina Schmitt

• VP ellipses, null objects, and aspect as a licensing category in Brazilian Portuguese, Sonia Cyrino & Ruth Lopes
• Low sentence structure and word order in French, Karen Lahousse

Session 5.3 (Language Change), C204/205; Chair: Stefania Marzo

• Stages of grammaticalization of the assertion structure in Spanish varieties, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
• Spanish por + a > para: Loss of compositionality in grammaticalization, Rena Torres-Cacoullos & Joseph Bauman

5:00-5:30pm: Coffee Break (Skylight Room, Ninth Floor)

5:30-6:30pm: Session 6:

Romance Parsed Corpora, Skylight Room; Chair: Anthony Kroch

• The challenges and benefits of annotating bilingual corpora: The SPinTX corpus project, Barbara Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, & Arthur Wendorf
• Diachronic syntax based on constituency and dependency annotated corpora, Achim Stein

7:00-10:00pm CONFERENCE DINNER at Via Emilia, 47 East 21st Street, between Broadway and Park Ave.

 

THIRD DAY: APRIL 19 (Friday):

Breakfast, 8:00-9:00am (9204)

9:00-10:30am: Session 7:

Session 7.1 (Prosody/Syntax), 9205; Chair: Janet Fodor

• A reconsideration of discourse-related syntactic movement motivated by prosody in Spanish, Carolina Barrera-Tobón & Bradley Hoot
• Prosodic boundary effect on the syntactic parsing of French utterance fragments, Amandine Michelas & Mariapaola D’Imperio
• Epistemic adverbs, the theory of phases, and the prosody-syntax interface, Alessandra Giorgi

Session 7.2 (Syntax/Semantics), 9206; Chair: Ana Maria Martins

• Non-counterfactual past subjunctive conditionals in French, Fabienne Martin
• A fine-grained analysis of analytic causatives in Romance, Mihaela Marchis
• Resultatives with stative predicates: From Romanian to Mandarin Chinese, Monica Irimia

Session 7.3 (Syntax), 9207; Chair: Raffaella Zanuttini

• French wh in-situ, Ur Shlonsky
• Embedded fragment answers, sluices, and referentiality in Spanish, Carlos de Cuba & Jonathan MacDonald
• The determiner restriction in Romance and Germanic nominalizations, Gianina Iordachioaia

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break (9204)

11:00am-12:30pm: Session 8:

Session 8.1 (Phonetics/Phonology), 9205; Chair: Robert Vago

• Phonetic cues in the production of aspectual periphrases, Patricia Amaral, Meghan Armstrong, & Luciana Lucente
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• Spanish voiced obstruent alternation and underspecification in OT, Sonia Colina

Session 8.2 (Romanian Syntax), 9206; Chair: John Bailyn

• Gerunds in Early-Modern Romanian, Gabriela Alboiu & Virginia Hill
• Romanian tough-constructions and multi-headed constituents, Ion Giurgea
• The Romanian subjunctive: A delayed onset, Virginia Hill

Session 8.3 (NP/Adj/Agr), 9207; Chair: Judy Bernstein

• Some notes on the syntax of imposter DPs in two Romance languages, Gabriela Soare
• Gender agreement with animate nouns in French, Petra Sleeman & Tabea Ihsane
• On the aspectual properties of adjectives, Silvia Gumiel-Molina, Norberto Moreno, & Maria Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

12:30-2:15pm Lunch Break (Note slightly shorter lunch break; only 1 hour 45 min)

2:15-3:15pm: Session 9:

5:15-6:15pm: Invited talk (Skylight Room). Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University, The Phonology of Postverbal Pronouns in Romance Languages (Chair: Hermann Haller)

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