LSRL 29 schedule
(NB:  Please forgive the lack of accent marks on all the vowels that require them)

6:00pm-10:00pm Registration (Concourse)

8:00am-6:00pm, Registration (Concourse)
8:00am-6:00pm, Book Exhibits (Kalamazoo Room)

8:30:-8:50 ADDRESS (MICHIGAN ROOM)

9:00am-10:10am  MICHIGAN ROOM
Plenary Speaker:  Dieter Wanner
"Beyond Typologies and Parameters: A Dynamic Perspective"

BREAK 10:10-11:00

Syntax Session 11:00-1:00 (Koessler Room):

11:00-11:30
"A Unified Analysis of French and Italian ne-cliticization"
Dieter Vermandere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

11:30-12:00
"Subject/Object Asymmetries without the ECP:  The Case of French beaucoup"
Marie-Claude Boivin, MIT

12:00-12:30
"Optionality in the Spanish Complementizer System" (Syntax)
Claudia Brovetto, Georgetown University

12:30-1:00
"Eppur si muove! On Comparing French, Portuguese, and Bellunese Wh-Movement"
Jean-Yves Pollock (CNRS, Lyon), Nicola Munaro (University of Padua), and Cecilia Poletto (University of Padua)

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

Syntax Session 3:00-5:00 (Koessler Room):

3:00-3:30
"Adjectival Agreement within DP without Feature Movement"
Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam/HIL

3:30-4:00
"On Becoming a Clitic:  The Prenominal Possessive in Romance"
Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Texas at El Paso

4:00-4:30
"Some Cross-linguistic Evidence against Noun-movement within the Determiner Phrase"
Asuncion Martinez-Arbelaiz, Michigan State University

4:30-5:00
"Romanian Nominal Structure, Proforms, and Genitive Case Checking"
Edward J. Rubin, University of Utah
 
BREAK:  5:00-5:30

5:30 - 6:40 MICHIGAN ROOM
Plenary Speaker: Esther Torrego
"Aspects of Determiner Case in Romance"

RECEPTION 7:00-8:00 HUSSEY ROOM

BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00-9:00 HUSSEY ROOM

Phonology Session 11:00-1:00 (Room D):

11:00-11:30
"Contrast Maintenance and Intervocalic Stop Lenition in Spanish and Portuguese:  When is it All Right to Lenite?"
Anthony M. Lewis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

11:30-12:00
"Uniform Exponence and Word-final Prevocalic /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish"
Travis Bradley, The Pennsylvania State University

12:00-12:30
"Epenthesis vs. Elision in Afro-Iberian Language:  A Constraint-based Approach to Pidgin/Creole Phonology"
John M. Lipski, University of New Mexico

12:30-1:00
"An Integrated Account of the Spanish Consonant System"
Miguel Vazquez Larruscain, University of Chicago

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

Semantics Session 3:00-5:00 (Room D):

3:00-3:30
"Non-logical if "
Josep Quer, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

3:30-4:00
"The Semantics of Spanish Free Relatives"
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, The Ohio State University

4:00-4:30
"The Aspectual Ambiguity of Italian finche "
Stefano Vegnaduzzo (UCLA) and Manuel Espanol-Echevarria (Universite Laval)

4:30-5:00
"Even even can be an NPI:  Evidence from Spanish"
Laura Barker and Elena Herburger, Georgetown University

8:00am-6:00pm, Registration (Concourse)
8:00am-6:00pm, Book Exhibits (Kalamazoo Room)

Syntax Session 8:30-10:30 (Koessler Room):

8:30-9:00
"The Acquisition of IP Aspect in Spanish as a Second Language:  A View from Syntax"
Silvina Montrul (SUNY Albany) and Roumyana Slabakova (University of Iowa)

9:00-9:30
"Selecting Atomic Cells from Temporal Domains:  Fixing Parameters in Romance"
Joan Rafel, Universitat de Girona

9:30-10:00
"Resultativity in French -- A Study in Contrastive Linguistics"
Patrick Caudal, Universite Paris 7

10:00-10:30
"Word Order in Romance Absolute Past Participle Constructions"
Ana Lucia Santos, Universidade do Minho

BREAK 10:30-11:00

Syntax Session 11:00-1:00 (Koessler Room):

11:00-11:30
"On Preverbal Subjects in Spanish"
Grant Goodall, University of Texas at El Paso

11:30-12:00
" 'Partial' Paradigms of Subject Pronouns:  A Feature Geometry?"
David Heap, University of Western Ontario

12:00-12:30
"Locative Inversion in Italian and Spanish:  Case Checking and Attract-F"
Paula Kempchinsky, University of Iowa

12:30-1:00
"New Thoughts on Stylistic Inversion"
R.S. Kayne (NYU) and J.-Y. Pollock (CNRS, Lyon)

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

Syntax / Semantics Session 3:00-5:00 (Koessler Room):

3:00-3:30
"Spec, DP and (In)definiteness:  From Romanian Genitives to Hebrew Construct State"
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS, Universite Paris 7

3:30-4:00
"The Distribution of Direct and Indirect Inalienable Possession in French"
Johan Rooryck (Leiden University/HIL) and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (KUBrussel)

4:00-4:30
"On the Semantic Nature of Bare NPs in Haitian Creole"
Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University

4:30-5:00
"Settling DISCORD over NEGATIVE CONCORD"
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Universite Paris 7) and Daniela Isac (University of Bucarest)

BREAK:  5:00-5:30 

5:30 - 6:40 HENDERSON ROOM
Plenary Speaker: Enric Vallduví
"An Overview of the Catalan Left Field"

RECEPTION/DINNER 6:45-9:30 HUSSEY ROOM

9:30 until ?? PARTY

Phonology Session 8:30-10:30 (Room D):

8:30-9:00
"Primary Stress in Portuguese non-verbs"
Seung-Hwa Lee, Fale-Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil

9:00-9:30
"Preantepenultimate Stress in Latin"
Haike Jacobs, Nymegen University/Free University Amsterdam

9:30-10:00
"Primary Stress in Spanish"
Zsuzsanna Barkanyi, ELTE University of Budapest

10:00-10:30
"Re-examining Spanish Resyllabification"
Timothy Face, The Ohio State University

BREAK 10:30-11:00 

Sociolinguistics Session 11:00-1:00 (Room D):

11:00-11:30
"Conditions on Conditional Usage in French Hypothetical si-Clauses
Carmen L. LeBlanc and Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa

11:30-12:00
"The Use of NP, pronoun, and zero in Peninsular Spanish Narratives:  Evidence for an Episodic Approach"
Llorenc Comajoan, Indiana University

12:00-12:30
"Contrastive Discourse Markers in Spanish:  Beyond Contrast"
Monica Malamud Makowski, Stanford University

12:30-1:00
"Polysemy Patterns of Emphatic Pronouns in Spanish and Catalan"
Matthew L. Juge, University of California at Berkeley

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

Phonology/Morphology Session 3:00-5:00 (Room D):

3:00-3:30
"Non-Homorganic Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects"
Lori Repetti, SUNY Stony Brook

3:30-4:00
"Non-concatenative Morphology in Spanish"
Carlos-Eduardo Pineros, Central Michigan University

4:00-4:30
"Functional Elements in the Romanian DP"
Albert Ortmann and Alexandra Popescu, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf

4:30-5:00
"On Catalan Verbal Morphology"
Isabel Oltra Massuet, MIT

8:00am-12:00pm, Book Exhibits (Kalamazoo Room)

9:00am-10:10am HUSSEY ROOM
Plenary Speaker: James Harris
"Nasal depalatalization no, morphological wellformedness si;
the structure of Spanish word classes"

BREAK:  10:10am-10:30am

Syntax Session 10:30-12:30 (Koessler Room):

10:30-11:00
"Functional Categories and the Acquisition of Clitics in L2 French"
Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington

11:00-11:30
"A Subjunctive Approach to 'Root Infinitives' "
Rikardo Etxepare (LEHIA) and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Maryland)

11:30-12:00
"On the Acquisition of Spanish N-N Compounds"
Juana M. Liceras, University of Ottawa

12:00-12:30
"Bare Nouns and the Morpho-syntax of Number"
Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University
 

Phonology Session 10:30-12:30 (Room D):

10:30-11:00
"Variation in Spanish and Prosodic Boundary Constraints" (Phonology)
Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida

11:00-11:30
"Coda Obstruents and Local Constraint Conjunction in a Dialect of Peninsular Spanish"
Richard E. Morris, Middle Tennessee State University

11:30-12:00
"A Constraint-based Account of Metaphony in Proto-Spanish and Lena Leonese"
Fernando Martinez-Gil, The Ohio State University

12:00-12:30
"Accounting for Intraspeaker Variation within a Constraint-based Framework:  A Case Study of Vocalic Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard"
Jeffrey Steele (McGill University) and Julie Auger (Indiana University)
 

Closing Remarks

FRIDAY, April 9:
 

PARASESSION A 11:00-1:00  MICHIGAN ROOM

11:00-11:30
"The Role of Features in Historical Change"
Monique Dufresne (UQAM & Queens), Fernande Dupuis (UQAM), and Mireille Tremblay (Queens University)

11:30-12:00
"Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile"
Donald Tuten, Emory University

12:00-12:30
"New Functions for Old Forms: The Exaptation of Romance Participant Pronouns"
John Charles Smith, University of Oxford (St. Catherine's College)

12:30-1:00
"Another Look at Middle French Narrative Tenses"
Charles L. Pooser, SUNY at Stony Brook

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

PARASESSION  B 3:00-5:00 MICHIGAN ROOM

3:00-3:30
"A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the 'Cycle' in Historical Romance Linguistics"
Jurgen Klausenburger, University of Washington

3:30-4:00
"On the Origin and Evolution of the Catalan Periphrastic Preterit"
Manuel Pérez Saldanya (Universitat de València) and José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois)

4:00-4:30
"Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion"
Ken Johnson, Purdue University

4:30-5:00
"The Grammaticalization of 'estar', 'ir', 'andar', and 'venir':  The Auxiliaries of the Progressive"
Amy Orf, Northern Michigan University

PARASESSION C 8:30-10:30 HENDERSON ROOM

8:30-9:00
"Subject Clitics and the Decline of Verb-Second in French"
Barbara Vance, Indiana University

9:00-9:30
"From the Loss of V2 to the Rise of Subject Clitics: A View on Minimal Diachronic Change"
Paola Benincà and Cecilia Poletto (University of Padua)

9:30-10:00
"A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel's Law"
Enrique Mallen, Texas A&M University

10:00-10:30
"Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French"
France Martineau (University of Ottawa) and Virginia Motapanyane (University of New Brunswick)

BREAK 10:30-11:00

PARASESSION D 11:00-1:00 HENDERSON ROOM

11:00-11:30
"An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Two Early W. Romance Grammars: A Contrastive Examination of Old French and Old Spanish"
Dale Hartkemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:30-12:00
"Remnants of Geminates in Spanish: Rhotics"
Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University

12:00-12:30
"A New Solution to the Dating of Syllable-final Consonant Loss in Old French: Theoretical Motivation and Empirical Support"
Randall Gess, University of Utah

12:30-1:00
"Analogy and Optimality Theory: An Explanation of Morphological Change in Southwest Spanish"
Glenn A. Martínez, The University of Texas - Pan American

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

PARASESSION E 3:00-5:00 HENDERSON ROOM

3:00-3:30
"Morphological Variation, Convergence, and Contact Phenomena in Early Navarro-Aragonese and Castilian"
Brian Imhoff, Texas A&M University

3:30-4:00
"Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement Morphology"
Andrés Enrique-Arias, University of Southern California

4:00-4:30
"Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placement of French Clitics"
Paul Hirschbühler (U. d'Ottawa & CSLI) and Marie Labelle (UQAM &CSLI)

4:30-5:00
"Modeling Syntactic Change: Evidence from Computer-based Studies of Infinitival Complements in Spanish and Portuguese"
Mark Davies, Illinois State University

PARASESSION F: 10:30-12:30 HUSSEY ROOM

10:30-11:00
"Phonological Split and Multivariant Reanalysis"
Janice M. Aski, Emory University

11:00-11:30
"Romance Lenition Once Again, with Caution"
Thomas D. Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:30-12:00
" 'With Whom Does This Conduct Sit Well?'  Diachronic Analysis and Disambiguation of the French Verb 'seoir' "
G. Aileen Clark, University of Ottawa

12:00-12:30
"The Evidence for Language Contact Between Dalmatian and Albanian"
Kelly Lynne Maynard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Closing Remarks

"On the Expression of Non-specific Indefiniteness in Romance:  Forms and Sensitivity" (Semantics)
Joao Peres, Universidade de Lisboa