Program: IATL 34

October 8-9, 2018 • Ben Gurion University

8.10.2018 Monday

09:20–09:50 Registration & Coffee
09:50–10:00 Welcoming remarks
10:00–11:00 Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln)
Indefinite demonstratives and discourse prominence		 pdf
11:00–11:40 Yael Greenberg (BIU) and Lavi Wolf (HUJI and BGU)
The Hebrew le-gamrey as an intensified response particle		 pdf
11:40–12:10 Coffee
12:10–12:50 Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS)
Internal possessors in differential object marking: a diachronic scenario		 pdf
12:50–13:30 Ilya Naumov (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
What is it to be a 1sg imperative?		 pdf
13:30–13:40 Business meeting
13:40–15:10 Lunch
15:10–15:50 Noam Faust (Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL)
Three new reasons to root for the Semitic root		 pdf
15:50–16:30 Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University) and Emily Gleason (Brown University)
Reduced duration is the likely cause of consonant lenition		 pdf
16:30–17:00 Coffee
17:00–17:40 Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
Selectional restrictions and the meaning of reciprocal alternations		 pdf
17:40–18:20 Alon Fishman (TAU)
'Different' as a lexical reciprocal: Evidence from co-occurrence with neat mass nouns		 pdf
18:30 Dinner

9.10.2019 Tuesday

09:30–10:00 Coffee
10:00–11:00 Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milan-Bicocca and SFL (CNRS & Université Paris 8))
Labeling and movement		 pdf
11:00–11:40 Malka Rappaport Hovav (HUJI)
Modern Hebrew in transit: the shift from a V-framed to an S-framed profile		 pdf
11:40–12:10 Coffee
12:10–12:50 Zarina Levy Forsythe (BGU) and Olga Kagan (BGU)
Two types of object incorporation in Uzbek		 pdf
12:50–13:30 Alexander Grosu (TAU)
'Simplest' Merge and the semantics of transparent free relatives		 pdf
13:30–15:00 Lunch
15:00–15:40 Tamas Halm (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Radically truncated clauses: Revisiting the structure of VP in Hungarian and beyond		 pdf
15:40–16:40 Posters & Coffee
Aynat Rubinstein (HUJI) and Ella Tzuberi (HUJI)
Modal meanings of motion verbs: A study in semantic flexibility		 pdf
Camiel Hamans (University of Amsterdam)
The difference between blends and clipped compounds		 pdf
Guillaume Enguehard (Université d'Orléans, CNRS LLL) and Noam Faust (Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL)
Nasalization and drawl in Central Yiddish		 pdf
Giada Palmieri (Utrecht University), Manuela Pinto (Utrecht University), Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) and Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University)
Lexical reciprocity vs. grammatical reciprocity: The case of Italian		 pdf
Lior Laks (BIU)
(Dis)favoring polycatergoriality in word formation? Evidence from Palestinian Arabic and Hebrew		 pdf
Pavel Rudnev (National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow))
When past tense isn't past: Morphosyntactic duality of negation in Avar		 pdf
Letizia Cerqueglini (TAU)
The space-to-time hypothesis in language and cognition in as-Sani Arabic		 pdf
16:40–17:20 Natalia Meir (BIU) and Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
Restructuring in heritage Russian grammar		 pdf
17:20–18:20 Special session in memory of Irit Meir:
Wendy Sandler (Haifa University)
New ways of thinking about language:  A Tribute to Irit Meir
Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion University)
Signs and meanings: Investigating metaphor with Irit Meir

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