Program and Abstracts

Location: Becton Center 10 Hillhouse avenue, room MC035

Parking map

Morning Session

9:45-10:00 Coffee

10:00-10:40
Matthew Barros and Hadas Kotek, Yale University
“Ellipsis Licensing in Sluicing: a QuD Account”

10:40-11:20
Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University)
“What Multiple Sluicing Tells us about Wh-scope Taking”

11:20-11:30  Break

11:30-12:10
Matthew Barros and Bob Frank, Yale University 
“Attention Hungry Subjects and Clause-Boundedness Effects”

12:10-1:00 Discussant:
Jason Merchant, University of Chicago

1:00-2:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:30-3:10
Brooke Larson, University of Iowa
“What is so Special about Sprouting?”

3:10-3:50
Troy Messick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Contextual Restrictions in Sluicing”

3:50-4:00 Break

4:00-4:40
Jason Merchant, University of Chicago
“Multiple Paths to Ellipsis: Identity, Accommodation, Scripts, and Type-Shifters”

4:40-5:20
Emily Manetta, University of Vermont
“Multiple Wh-Fronting, Focus, and Sluicing in Kashmiri”

5:20-5:30 Break

5:30-6:20 Discussant:
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Handout

7:00 Dinner and drinks (Lingsem)

*There is also a parking lot (free on weekends) on Temple street across the street from Helen Hadley Hall.