ECO5 – March 30th 2013 Laurel Hall, Room 202

9.30am – 10.00

Session 1

10.00 – 10.25 10.25 – 10.50 10.50 – 11.15

Coffee/breakfast

Chair: Troy
Koji Shimamura (UConn)
An argument against argument ellipsis.

Rachel Dudley (UMD)
Bootstrapping the semantics of attitude verbs.

Nick LaCara (UMass)
Remarks on genericity and aspect in middles.

———————— Break 11.15 – 11.35 ————————

Session 2

11.35 – 12.00 12.00 – 12.25 12.25 – 13.00

Chair: Pete

Teresa Maria Xiques Garcia (UMass)
The hodiernal perfect and the position-definite reading: towards a unified account.

Dongwoo Park (UMD)
Functional Phrase and Subject-to-Object Raising in Korean.

Caitlin Keenan (Harvard)
On the structure of the Abkhaz indefinite article.

————————- Lunch 13.00 – 14.00 ————————-

Session 3

14.00 – 14.25

14.25 – 14.50 14.50 – 15.15

Chair: Pete

Jenny Lee (Harvard)
Null operator movement in ‘Across-the-Board’ questions in Korean: Implications for the Coordinate Structure Constraint.

Troy Messick (UConn)
On so-called MaxElide effects.

Yohei Oseki (UMass)
Unlabeled/Labeled Adjuncts.

————————- Break 15.15 – 15.40 ————————-

Session 4

15.40 – 16.05 16.05 – 16.30 16.30 – 16.55

Chair: Troy
Yong Suk Yoo (UConn)
The structures of quantified nominal phrases in Japanese, Korean and Turkish.

Pooja Paul (Harvard)
Do-Support as observed in Malayalam Verb Coordination.

Zoe Schlueter (UMD)
The Effect of Proficiency on the Antecedent Preferences of Personal Pronouns and Anaphoric Demonstratives by English Second Language Learners of German.