program

Program

Venue: Room 203, Luce Hall 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511

Sat04/11 845-915 Registration & breakfast
  915-930 Opening remarks
(Robert Frank)
  930-1030 Jeffrey Lidz (Maryland)
Inside the Language Acquisition Device: Insights from Kannada
  1030-1100 Troy Messick (UConn) 
Pronoun-agreement mismatches in Telugu
  1100-1120 Coffee break
  1120-1150 Itamar Francez (UC) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Manchester)
The locus of variation:  A case study from Malayalam property
concept constructions
  1150-1220 Mythili Menon (USC) & Roumyana Pancheva (USC)
Decomposing color expressions in Malayalam
  1230-100 Poster presentations
  100-230 Lunch + Poster session 1
  230-300 Sakshi Bhatia (UMass)
Causation in Hindi-Urdu: Agents and Subjects
  300-330 Vera Zu (NYU)
Binding and shifting in Kathmandu Newari
  330-400 Coffee Break
  400-430 Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig)
Different routes to reflexivity: voice vs. perspective
  430-500 Nagaraja Selvanathan (Rutgers)
Reflexive connectivity, reconstruction and the interpretation
of chains in Tamil
  500-530 Rahul Balusu (EFLU)
Sluicing in Dravidian: Tracing the source
  600- Dinner in Luce Hall
     
Sun04/12 900-930 Breakfast
  930-1030 John Beavers (UT Austin)
Anticausatives in Sinhala: A view to the Middle
  1030-1100 Andrew Simpson (USC) & Priyanka Biswas (USC)
Bare nominals, classifiers, and the representation
of definiteness in Bangla
1100-1120 Coffee break
  1120-1150     Sonja Eisenbiss (Essex), Ayesha Kidwai & Benu Pareek (JNU)
Verb agreement in Hindi and its acquisition
  1150-1220 Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) & Vincent Homer (UMass)
PPIs and movement in Hindi-Urdu
  1220-145  Lunch 
  145-215 Arunima Choudhury (USC) & Elsi Kaiser (USC)
Interaction between prosody and syntactic position: evidence
from focus types in Bangla
  215-245 Vandana Bajaj (Rutgers) & Kristen Syrett (Rutgers)
Admitting -hii to the exclusive club
  245-300 Coffee break
  300-330 Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
The agent suffixes as a window into Vedic grammar
330-400 Business meeting