The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Thursda y, A pril 16, 2009 – Assembly Ha ll
8:00 – 9:15
Registration and Coffee
9:15
Welcome9:30 – 11:30 Locality in Phonology
9:30 Sharon Gerlach (University of Minnesota):
Consonant harmony and non-local metathesis in phonological development
10:00 Eric Bakovic (University of California San Diego):
Local blocking and minimal violation
10:30 Adam Wayment (Johns Hopkins University):
Integrating preconditions on parasitic vowel harmony
11:00 Max Bane & Ed King (University of Chicago):
Local predictability in the lexicon
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45
Invited Speaker: Ivan Sag
Title TBA
12:45 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Locality in Syntax I
2:00 Yosuke Sato & Dwi Hesti Yuliani (University of British Columbia):
Phase-bound locality, deletion, and failure of vocabulary insertion at the syntax-phonology interface
2:30 Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University):
On Left-Branch Extraction (LBE) and Left-Branch Condition (LBC) effects
3:00 Sverre Johnsen (Harvard University):
Non-local binding in tenseless clauses
3:30 Alex Drummond (University of Maryland):The unity of extraposition and the A/A’ distinction
4:00 – 4:15
Break4:15
Invited Speaker: Kyle Johnson
Title TBA
TBA Grad Student Mixer: Location: University of Chicago Pub in the basement of Ida Noyes, 1212 East 59th Street

The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Frida y, A pr il 17, 2009
8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Coffee

Home Roo m

Nation al Roo m

9:00 – 11:00
Syntax I
9:00 Jeremy Rafal (The City University of New York):
On the structure of associative plurals: a view from
Hawaiian Creole English

Computational Phonology
Marc Ettlinger, Ann Bradlow & Patrick Wong
(Northwestern University):The persistence and obliteration of opaque Interactions

9:30 Michael Diercks (Georgetown University):
Subject extraction and anti-agreement effects in Bukusu: ACriterial Freezing Approach

Max Bane & Jason Riggle (University of Chicago):
Evaluating Strict Domination: The Typological Consequences of
Weighted Constraints

10:00 Pei-Jung Kuo (University of Connecticut):
Differential Object Marking in Mandarin Chinese

Silke Hamann (University of Düsseldorf), Diana Apoussidou& Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam):
Modeling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across themental lexicon
Peter Graff & T. Florian Jaeger (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology):
The OCP is a pressure to keep words distinct: Evidence fromAymara, Dutch and Javanese

10:30 Vincent Homer & Tomoko Ishizuka (University ofCalifornia Los Angeles):Looking at Japanese Causatives from a French Perspective
11:00 – 11:15

Break
11:15

Invited Speaker: Paul Boersma
Title TBA

The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
12:15- 1:30
1:30 – 3:00

Lunch
Locality in Syntax II

1:30 Daniel Büring (University of California, Los Angeles):The Non-Locality of Predicate Integration
2:00 Brent Henderson (University of Florida):
Anti-Agreement: Locality of Movement or Agreement?
2:30 Jesse Harris (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
Locality, Event-construal and Extraction: Evidence from
Language Processing
3:00 – 3:15
3:15 – 4:45

Pragmatics
Jennifer Mack & Yael Fuerst (Yale University):
English Optional Expletives and the Pragmatics of Judgments
Rachel Szekely (Long Island University):
Existential Dependencies: Holes, problems and other flaws in theargument
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (University of Massachusetts, Boston):
Scalar Additive Particles in Biased Questions: Evidence from
SpanishBreakExperiments in Structure and Meaning

Nothing but Nasals

3:15 Susannah Kirby (University of North Carolina):
Hiroki Nomoto (University of Minnesota):
Child passives: A-chain maturation or argument
More on Austronesian nasal substitution
mismatches?
3:45 Erin Tavano and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern
William G. Bennett (Rutgers University):
California):
The Distribution & Representation of Nasalized Clicks
Eye-movement evidence of effort in scalar implicatureprocessing
4:15 Hyun Kyung Hwang (Cornell University): The role ofCaleb Everett (University of Miami): Understanding theprosody and pragmatics on wh-scope assignment in Korean
adjacency of nasal oralization and stress in Karitiana
and Japanese
4:45 – 5:00
Break
5:00
Invited Speaker: TBA (Semantics)

The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Saturda y, A pril 18, 2009 – National R oom & Ho me Room
8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Coffee

Home Roo m
9:00 – 11:00
Semantics
9:00 Carlos Balhana (Georgetown University):
What Does This “Even” Mean? Modality, Ordering andFocus

Nation al Roo m
Phonology
Karen Jesney (University of Massachusetts Amherst):
Licensing in Multiple Contexts: An Argument for HarmonicGrammar

9:30 Eun-Hae Park (University of Chicago):
Definite Free Choice Analysis in Korean

James Gruber (Georgetown University):
The Composition of Phonological Tone in Burmese

10:00 Zhiguo Xie(Cornell University):
A two-layer analysis of ability modality -- a case study of‘able to’

Olga Vaysman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Mansi Rhythmic Allomorphy

10:30 Olga Eremina (Michigan State University):
Ambiguity or Unification? Choice Function Approach to TO indefinites in RussianPeter Jenks (Harvard University) & Sharon Rose
(University of California San Diego):
Syllable weight and High Tone in Moro

11:00 – 11:15
11:15
12:15- 1:30

Break
Invited Speaker: Lenore Grenoble
Losing it in S iberia: Assessing the impact of contact
Lunch

The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
1:30 – 3:00
Syntax II
1:30 Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University/University ofConnecticut/JSPS):
Genuine' Sluicing in Japanese
2:00 Vincent Homer (University of California LosAngeles):Backward Control in Samoan
2:30 Jackie Bunting (University of Chicago):
Comparing quality and quantity in Ewe: a look at the serial'wu'
3:00 – 3:15
3:15 – 4:45
Degrees and more
3:15 Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University):
Degree Modification of Extreme Adjectives3:45 Julie Li Jiang (Harvard University): Monotonicity andMeasure Phrases in Chinese
4:15 Jozina Vander Klok (McGill University): Indirectmodification in Javanese: Evidence from attributive
comparatives
4:45 – 5:00
5:00
6:00 – 6:30
6:30

Language change
Matt Bauer (Illinois Institute of Technology):
Sound change and functionalism: The role of laryngeal height
Kelly L. Maynard (University of Chicago):
The Aspect Marker pe in Samsun Albanian
Ashley Lober (University of Texas at Arlington) & Brenda
H. Boerger (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics):
Spatial Relationships in Natügu: Micro-level DirectionalsBreakDiscourse and Interaction
M. Catherine Gruber: I just wanna apologize': The sociointeractional meanings of 'just' in defendants' apologies
Matt Garley, Benjamin Slade & Marina Terkourafi(University of Illinois):
Hwæt! LOL! – common formulaic functions in Beowulf and blogs
Diana Marinova (American University):
Collaborators or Underminers of the Dispute Resolution Process?
Disputants’ Reaction to Mediators’ Assessments
Break

Invited Speaker: Rachel Walker
Title TBA
Break
Farewell Banquet and Enter tainment

The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Alternates:Phonology
Daniel Michel (University of California San Diego): Positional Transparency in C’Lela
SyntaxChristopher Straughn (University of Chicago): Exceptional Case Marking in Uzbek Complementizer Clauses
Pragmatics
Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois): Variationist methodology in pragmatics: (how) can it be done?
Computational Phonology
Kevin McGowan (University of Michigan): Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law
Nothing but Nasals
Kenneth Olson (SIL International & University of North Dakota) & D. Will Reiman (SIL International): The voiced linguolabial plosive inKajoko (Guinea-Bissau)
Semantics
Yusuke Kubota (Ohio State University): More on scale structure and degree modification: the case of ‘kanari’ in Japanese
Language Change
E-Ching Ng (Yale University): Singaporean English word-level tone assignment: An optimality theory account