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 |
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11:00–11:40 | Yael Greenberg (BIU) and Lavi Wolf (HUJI and BGU) The Hebrew le-gamrey as an intensified response particle |
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11:40–12:10 | Coffee | |
12:10–12:50 | Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) Internal possessors in differential object marking: a diachronic scenario |
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12:50–13:30 | Ilya Naumov (National Research University Higher School of Economics) What is it to be a 1sg imperative? |
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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 |
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15:50–16:30 | Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University) and Emily Gleason (Brown University) Reduced duration is the likely cause of consonant lenition |
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16:30–17:00 | Coffee | |
17:00–17:40 | Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) Selectional restrictions and the meaning of reciprocal alternations |
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17:40–18:20 | Alon Fishman (TAU) 'Different' as a lexical reciprocal: Evidence from co-occurrence with neat mass nouns |
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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 |
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11:00–11:40 | Malka Rappaport Hovav (HUJI) Modern Hebrew in transit: the shift from a V-framed to an S-framed profile |
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11:40–12:10 | Coffee | |
12:10–12:50 | Zarina Levy Forsythe (BGU) and Olga Kagan (BGU) Two types of object incorporation in Uzbek |
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12:50–13:30 | Alexander Grosu (TAU) 'Simplest' Merge and the semantics of transparent free relatives |
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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 |
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15:40–16:40 | Posters & Coffee | |
Aynat Rubinstein (HUJI) and Ella Tzuberi (HUJI) Modal meanings of motion verbs: A study in semantic flexibility |
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Camiel Hamans (University of Amsterdam) The difference between blends and clipped compounds |
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Guillaume Enguehard (Université d'Orléans, CNRS LLL) and Noam Faust (Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL) Nasalization and drawl in Central Yiddish |
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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 |
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Lior Laks (BIU) (Dis)favoring polycatergoriality in word formation? Evidence from Palestinian Arabic and Hebrew |
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Pavel Rudnev (National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)) When past tense isn't past: Morphosyntactic duality of negation in Avar |
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Letizia Cerqueglini (TAU) The space-to-time hypothesis in language and cognition in as-Sani Arabic |
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16:40–17:20 | Natalia Meir (BIU) and Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) Restructuring in heritage Russian grammar |
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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 |
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Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion University) Signs and meanings: Investigating metaphor with Irit Meir |