5. 2009 Conference Schedule
Tentative schedule only
Conference schedule
Horaire de la conférence
Friday 6th March 2009/ Vendredi, 6 mars 2009
Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
4:00 – 5:30 Registration/Inscription
Lev Buhkman Room, Student Union Building
6:00 – 7:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Professor Heather Goad, McGill University
“Crazy Kids! A Grammar with Laryngeal Allophony but No Laryngeal Features”
Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
7:15 – 8:00 Reception
Carlos and Pepe’s, 1420 rue Peel
8:15 Dinner
Saturday 7th March 2009/ Samedi, 7 mars 2009
MS42, McLennan Building, Basement
10:00 Breakfast
10:00 Registration/Inscription
SESSION 1. Chair: Masha Westerlund
10:45 – 11:15 Isaac Gould, University of Toronto
“Another Look at Scrambling, Stress, and Information Structure”
11:15 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
SESSION 2. Chair: Jonathan Abramsohn
11:30 – 12:00 Mallory Schleif, Hampshire College; Michelle Barron, Amherst College
“The Phonotactics of Word-Initial Consonant Clusters in Nepali”
12:00 – 12:30 Joshua Herrera, University of Connecticut
“Verb-Particle Constructions and Stress Adjacency Locations: An Analysis into Developmental Patterns in Children”
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK/ PAUSE DÉJEUNER
SESSION 3. Chair: Alexandra Dévieux
1:30 – 2:00 Sandhya Narayanan, Brandeis University
“Epistemic “Must” and the Presumptive Mood in Hindi”
2:00 – 2:30 Anna Howell, McGill University
“NPI Licensing: A Puzzle for Semantic Theories of the Comparative”
2:30 – 3:00 Steffani Scheer, McGill University
“A Revised Analysis of German V2 as T-to-C Movement”
3:00 – 3:15 POSTER SESSION
3:15 – 3:30 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
3:30 – 4:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Professor Bernhard Schwarz, McGill University
“Degree Operator Scope and Distributivity”
Gert’s Pub
8:00 Pizza party
Sunday 8th March 2009/ Dimanche, 8 mars 2009
MS42, McLennan Building, Basement
SESSION 4. Chair: Lindsay Green
10:15 – 10:45 Laura Jensen, Michigan State University
“How Do English Speakers Learning French Make Tu/Vous Decisions?”
10:45 – 11:15 Joshua Levy, McGill University
“Language Planning Through Bilingual Education: New Mexico & New Brunswick”
11:15 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
SESSION 5. Chair: Diane Raines
11:30 – 12:00 Dylan Uscher, University of Toronto
“From Super Hottcore to Simply Amazing: A Longitudinal Study of a Blogger’s Intensifier Use”
12:00 – 12:30 Jacob Cerny, Williams College
“An In-Depth Analysis of the Miami Dialect”
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK/ PAUSE DÉJEUNER
SESSION 6. Chair: Stephan Hurtubise
1:30 – 2:00 Laura Kalin, McGill University
“The Role of Maximality and Post-Topic PPs in Malagasy Pseudoclefts”
2:00 – 2:30 Elise Benallick, University of Ottawa
“How to deal with radical pro-drop languages within the framework of minimalism: the spell-out phenomenon”
2:30 – 3:00 Closing Remarks