Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics: 30th Annual Meeting
Program
October 20-21 2014Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Venue: Deichmann Building (18), Sarah Tadmor Hall
Monday October 20
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Welcoming remarks | |
| 10:50-11:50 | Invited Speaker: Ora Matushansky CNRS/Université Paris-8 and UiL OTS/Utrecht University Against PredP |
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| 11:50-12:10 | Coffee break | |
| 12:10-12:50 | Claudia Maienborn & Johanna Herdtfelder Universität Tübingen Causal modification of adjectival predicates: Combinatorics and interpretation |
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| 12:50-13:30 | Yoad Winter Utrecht University The intersectivity of distal PP modifiers |
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| 13:30-14:40 | Lunch | |
| 14:40-15:20 | Lior Laks Bar Ilan University The cost of change: Plural formation of loan words in Arabic |
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| 15:20-16:00 | Jean Lowenstamm Université Paris-Diderot German umlaut, compositionality, and non-compositionality |
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| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break | |
| 16:20-17:00 | Lavi Wolf The Hebrew University of Jerusalem It’s probably certain |
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| 17:00-17:40 | Edit Doron and Aynat Rubinstein The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Varieties of alternative unconditionals |
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| 18:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday October 21
| 10:30-11:30 | Invited Speaker: Rajesh Bhatt UMass Amherst Polar Questions and Disjunction: clues from Hindi-Urdu `kyaa' |
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| 11:30-11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50-12:30 | Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Non-core datives in Modern Hebrew |
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| 12:30-13:10 | Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Jennifer Mack, Elena Barbieri & Cynthia K. Thompson Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University How the brain processes argument structure: Evidence from fMRI |
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| 13:10-13:30 | Business Meeting | |
| 13:30-14:40 | Lunch | |
| 14:40-14:50 | Celebrating 30 years of IATL | |
| 14:50-15:30 | Björn Köhnlein Leiden University Distinctive tone is not always lexical tone: A foot-based analysis of the tone accent contrast in Stockholm Swedish |
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| 15:30-16:10 | Noam Faust The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The effect of a null pronoun on morpho-phonology: Demonyms in Modern Hebrew |
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| 16:10-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-17:10 | Svetlana Dachkovsky University of Haifa Grammaticalization of facial intonation: The case of squint in ISL relative clauses |
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| 17:10-17:50 | Olga Kagan and Lavi Wolf Ben Gurion University of the Negev and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Gradability versus modality: Almost in English and Russian |