Chicago Linguistic Society 58
Friday, April 22
8:45-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:10

11:10-11:40
11:40-12:10- International House Auditorium registration
opening remarks
Invited Speaker: Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University):
Semiotic Distinctions in Compositional Semantics
breaksign languages
Linghui Eva Gan: Question Answer Pairs in Hong Kong Sign Language
Justine Mertz, Giuseppina Turco, & Carlo Geraci:
Categorical Perception in French Sign Language (LSF)

12:10-1:10
1:10-2:10
2:10-2:20

lunch
ihouse auditorium: poster session (with coffee)
break

2:20-3:20

Invited Speaker: James Kirby (University of Edinburgh):
Comparative Tonal Text-Setting in Cantonese and Mandarin Popular Songbreak

3:20-3:30

3:30-4:00
4:00-4:30
4:30-5:00

6:00

language, music, and tonality
Aidan Malanoski: Genre Formation as Enregisterment
Jacob Reed: Text-Setting Tradeoffs in English-Language Popular Music:
Incorporating Musical Constraints Into OT Analysis
Boer Fu: UR Underlearning of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi Words- University of Chicago Pub, Ida Noyes Basementgraduate student mixer

POSTER SESSIONS
Fri. 4/22

Sat. 4/23

Sun. 4/24

S. Sandoval, D. Greeson, & M. Morzycki: Instrument Names, Bare Singulars,& Event Kinds | R. Jenkins: Covert Raising & Finite ECM in Turkish, Uyghur, &Japanese | S. K. Lee: On Syntactic Tenselessness in Singlish: Evidence from
Eventivity | S. Lee: Linearly Adjacent Allomorphs & Syntactic Copies | E.
Kumaran: Murrinhpatha Number Mismatch as Partial Agree | Y. Kushnir &M. Šereikaitė: Lithuanian Attributive Compounds: a DM Approach
virtual: V. Simeonova: The Epistemic Future in Reflective Questions | K.
Kudo & K. Shimamura: On the Adjectivalizer -si in the Reduplicated & Deverbal
Adjectives in Japanese | T. Halm: The Syntax of Virtual Performatives in English
M. Takahashi & Grant Goodall: Do Islands Care about the Direction of the Dependency? Evidence from Double-Gap Relatives in Japanese | B. Lewis: A New
Analysis of Associative Plurals: Evidence from Slavic languages | M. Fiorini: A Semantic Characterization of po in Camuno | C. Ruiz-Alonso: On the Determiner elin Spanish: An Evidence of the Nominal Status & Presupposition in Embedded
Clauses | N. Su & H. Aparicio: NPI Licensing & Intrusion Effect in Japanese
virtual: A. Alcazar: Modal Particles & Force: Illocutionary Modification as Adverb Incorporation | Y. Sato: PF-LF Domain Mismatches under Ellipsis & the NonSimultaneous Transfer Hypothesis | A. Blümel: ECP & EPP in the Nominal Domain Reconsidered | Z. Mirrazi & H. Zeijlstra: Missing Words & Missing Worlds
M. Fuchs & M. van der Klis: An Experimental Approach to the Present PerfectPuzzle: the Case of English, Spanish & Dutch | J. Van Craenenbroeck: SpecCPExpletives are Main Clause Complementizers | L. Paparounas: Greek Reflexives
are Unaccusative | A. Petrovic: Morphological Epenthesis as String Transductions
virtual: J. Middleton: Predicate Landing Sites in Verb-Initial Languages | M.
Liu & S. Rotter: An Experimental Study of Multiple Modals & Register Effects
in American & British English | T. Tanabe & R. Kobayashi: Remarks on
Verb Echo Answers & Head Movement in Japanese | B. Gravely: TwoConstructions, One Probe: Solidifying the Link between PCC Effects & Causatives

Saturday, April 23
8:30-9:30

9:30-10:30- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor registration- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor Invited Speaker: Lal Zimman (UC Santa Barbara)
What is a Gendered Voice? Intersectional Perspectives on Ethics, Empiricism,and Epistemologies in the Sociophonetics of Gender

10:30-10:40

10:40-11:10

11:10-11:40

11:40-12:10

12:10-12:40

12:40-1:40
1:40-2:40
2:40-2:50

2:50-3:50

break- West Lounge, 2nd floor General*Zihui Zhu & An Nguyen:
The Interaction between Structure,
Discourse, and Prosody in WHQuestions in English
Jack Pruett:
Representing and Analyzing Initial
Consonant Mutation in Irish Gaelic:The Presence of Phonologically Unsegmented Morphemes Driving Phonological Alternations
Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck &Marjo Van Koppen:
Untangling Morphosyntactic Microvariation in Dutch Dialects
Anda Neagu:
Optionality and Variation in Camuno
Interrogatives: a Syntactic Analysis

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

5:30-6:00

Selikem Gotah & Soo-Hwan Lee:
Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) AgentNominalization*Daoxin Li:
Passives, Impersonals, and Voice inSakha

8:30-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:30-10:40

10:40-11:10

11:10-11:40

11:40-12:10

12:10-12:40*Andrew McInnerney:
Two Strategies for PP-Fronting fromCertain Island Environments in English

lunch
ida noyes theater: poster session (with coffee)
break- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor Invited Speaker: Emily Gasser (Swarthmore College)
VRK Mutation in Papua: Phonological Variation Across Time and Space

3:50-4:00

4:00-4:30- East Lounge, 2nd floor Morphology/Syntax 1
Marie-Luise Schwarzer:
An Argument for Move-And-Delete
from German Determiner Sharing

Sunday, April 24- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor registration- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor Invited Speaker: Roger Levy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Acquisition and Processing of Grammatical Structure:
Insights from Deep Learning

break- West Lounge, 2nd floor Experimental 1Sydelle de Souza & Hamish
Chalmers: Processing Collocations:
When Semantic Transparency andCongruency Collide
Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson:
Competing de dicto Terms Reduce dere Acceptability*Adina Camelia Bleotu, Deborah
Foucault, & Tom Roeper:
Are Long Short Leaves ‘Leaves That
Are Short That Are Long’? Yes! The
Recursive Set-Subset Principle Orders
Both Adjectives and Relative Clauses*Adina Camelia Bleotu & Rodica
Ivan: Voice Alternation with SE Figure
Reflexives in Romanian: Evidence froma Semi-Artificial Denominal Paradigm- East Lounge, 2nd floor Morphology/Syntax 3*Colin Davis &Luis Miguel Toquero Perez:
The Interaction of Clitic Pronouns andParasitic Gaps in a Variety of Spanish*Yosho Miyata:
Argument for Verb-Stranding Ellipsis by
Blocking Verb-Raising in Japanese
Tarcisio Dias:
Hyper-Raising and the Voiding ofFreezing Effects

Anna Grabovac:
Maximization of the Concord Domain

12:40-1:40
1:40-2:40
2:40-2:50

lunch
ida noyes theater: poster session (with coffee)
break

2:50-3:50- Ida Noyes Theater, 3rd floor Invited Speaker: Monica Do (University of Chicago)
From Thematic to Syntactic Structures: A View from Psych Verbs

3:50-4:00

breakbreak- West Lounge, 2nd floor Semantics*Julie Goncharov:Emphatic Definite Descriptions- East Lounge, 2nd floor Morphology/Syntax 2
Penelope Daniel:
Deriving Interpretive Effects of Spanish
DOM*Gurmeet Kaur, Julie Goncharov Fanghua Zheng:& Neil Banerjee:
A Feature Account of Mandarin Chinese
Polarity, Homogeneity, and Authority
Plural Morpheme -men and Implications
on the Syntax of Noun Phrases
Andrea Beltrama:*Shiori Ikawa, Akitaka Yamada,Absolute Context-Sensitivity: The& Yoichi Miyamoto:Puzzle of Mildly Positive Adjectives
Japanese Clausal Argument Ellipsis andEmbedded Clause Periphery
Xuetong Yuan:*Marcin Wągiel:
Establishing Discourse Relations:Labeling Things with Numerals in
Two Contrastive Markers in Mandarin Maltese, Japanese, and Wymysorys

4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

6:30- West Lounge, 2nd floor Experimental 2*Shu-hao Shih:
Segmental and Suprasegmental Cues inCompetition: A Nonce Word Experiment
Nicolaus Schrum & Jon Sprouse:
The Sustained Anterior Negativity as a
Diagnostic for Movement in How-Come
Questions- East Lounge, 2nd floor General
Engela de Villiers:
An Innovated Prohibitive Marker inAfrikaans Negative Imperatives
Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Imke
Driemel, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona
Ilić, Paloma Jeretič, & Maria
Teresa Guasti:
Negative Concord in the Acquisition ofNon-Negative Concord Languages- Cloister Club, Ida Noyes 1st floor banquet & karaoke (bring id!)

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