Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics: 31st Annual Meeting
October 13-14, 2015
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9:30-9:50 | Greetings | |
| 9:50-10:50 | Invited speaker: Malte Zimmermann Universität Potsdam Scalar Particles and the analysis of Contrastive Topics: A cross-linguistic investigation of English and Vietnamese |
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| 10:50-11:30 | Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh Hebrew University of Jerusalem Modern Hebrew discursive datives |
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| 11:30-11:50 | Coffee | |
| 11:50-12:30 | Ariel Cohen and Irit Meir Ben Gurion University of the Negev and University of Haifa Function variables in metaphoric interpretation: Evidence from iconicity in sign languages |
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| 12:30-13:10 | Svetlana Dachkovsky, Jana Hosemann, Markus Steinbach and Wendy Sandler University of Haifa and Universität Göttingen Signers' perception of conditional intonation: A comparative study of Israeli Sign Language and German Sign Language |
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| 13:10-14:50 | Lunch | |
| 14:50-15:30 | Avivit Ben-David and Outi Bat-El Tel Aviv University Stressed and final syllables in language acquisition: Which is stronger? |
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| 15:30-16:10 | Noam Faust Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Université Paris 8 Guttural ghosts |
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| 16:10-16:30 | Coffee | |
| 16:30-17:10 | Andreas Trotzke and Stefano Quaglia Universität Konstanz Topicalization patterns in expressive particle verbs: Comparative evidence from German and Italian |
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| 17:10-17:50 | Hedde Zeijlstra Universität Göttingen Explaining FOFC without the LCA |
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| 19:15 | Conference dinner |
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
| 9:30-10:30 | Invited speaker: Donka Farkas University of California, Santa Cruz Assertions, polar questions, and the land in-between |
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| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee | |
| Thematic Session: Experimental and corpus-based research in theoretical linguistics | ||
| 10:50-11:30 | Maayan Keshev and Aya Meltzer-Asscher Tel Aviv University Implications of grammatical resumption for the online processing of Hebrew islands |
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| 11:30-12:10 | Saskia Ottschofski Universität Tübingen The acquisition of pronouns in English: Evidence for a uniform semantics of pronouns, indexicals and the definite determiner |
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| 12:10-12:30 | Business Meeting | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| Thematic Session (cont.) | ||
| 14:00-14:40 | Daphna Heller and Boaz Ben David University of Toronto and Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Morphological activation during spoken word recognition: Beyond sound and meaning? |
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| 14:40-15:20 | Noga Balaban, Petra Schulz and Naama Friedmann Tel Aviv University and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt What triggers exhaustivitiy in answers to wh-questions? Evidence from TOM impairment after right hemisphere damage |
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| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | |
| 15:40-16:20 | Yael Greenberg Bar Ilan University The scale of (overt) even: Problems and solutions |
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| 16:20-17:00 | Hadas Kotek McGill University On the semantics of wh-questions |
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| 17:00-17:20 | Coffee | |
| 17:20-18:00 | Stephanie Solt ZAS Berlin Granularity and weak disjunctions |
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Alternates
| Alexander Grosu and Ion Giurgea Tel Aviv University and The Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy The smoking gun: The Romanian connection |
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| Vera Hohaus and Andreas Konietzko Universität Tübingen VP-proforms and Logical Form: The perspective from English and German |
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| Lior Laks, Evan-Gary Cohen and Stav Azulay Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University Paradigm uniformity and the locus of derivation: The case of Hebrew vowel epenthesis |
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| Lucia Tovena and Xiaoqian Zhang Université Paris 7 A pragmatically enriched temporal relation |
The conference is supported by: The office of the Vice-President of Research, Bar-Ilan University; The Rector’s office, Bar-Ilan University; The Lechter Institute for Literary Research; The Lewis Family Foundation for International Conferences in the Humanities; and The Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University.