Saturday, November 12, 2016
Dome Room (Rm 305, Metcalf)
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks
Morning Session I
10:15 – 10:45 Gabriel Martínez Vera, University of Connecticut
The expression of change of state in Southern Aymara
10:45 – 11:15 Junwen Lee, Brown University
A look at what really is really doing
11:15 – 11:45 Joshua Philips, Yale University
A sense of agency: structure pronominal variation in Australian Kriol
11:45 – 12:00 Break
Morning Session II
12:00 – 12:30 Itai Bassi, MIT
A puzzle about binding by focus operators
12:30 – 13:00 Yuta Tatsumi, University of Connecticut
Non-cardinal interpretation of the numeral one in Japanese
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session I
14:30 – 15:00 Laine Stranahan, Harvard University
Effects of working memory load on contrastive inference
15:00 – 15:30 Andy Zhang, Yale University
A unified conceptual grounding of the locative and possessive
meanings of English have: Evidence from contextual priming
15:30 – 15:45 Break
Afternoon Session II
15:45 – 16:15 Amanda Swenson, MIT
Existential and episodic: Reexamining the Malayalam -unnu
Imperfective
16:15 – 16:45 Martin Fuchs, Yale University
Contextual conditioning in semantic change: The Spanish Imperfective
domain
16:45 – 17:15 Giuseppe Ricciardi, Harvard University
The epistemic use of the Italian future morphology
17:15 – 17:30 Break
Afternoon Session III
17:30 – 18:00 Jyoti Iyer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tamil -um and negative polarity
18:00 – 18:30 Alex Goebel, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dividing Additives: On Too, Also and German Auch
18:30 – 18:45 Business meeting
18:45 Party (Metcalf Basement)
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