Structure and Evidence in Linguistics
Cordura Hall, Stanford University
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Session 1
(chair Dan Jurafsky)
14:30
Welcome! Coffee
15:00
E. Engdahl (University of Göteborg) Strange things happen on extraction paths
15:20
T. Gibson (MIT) Working memory and syntactic islands revisited
15:40
P. Hofmeister and L. Staum Casasanto (University of Essex and Stony Brook University) Individual differences and acceptability judgments
16:00
Coffee break
Session 2
(chair Emily Bender)
16:30
C. Pollard (Ohio State University) Traces exist (hypothetically)!
16:50
S. Müller (Freie Univsersität Berlin) Unifying everything
17:10
G. K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh and Brown University) Structure, evidence and the epistemology of syntax
Monday, April 29, 2013
Session 3
(chair Paul Kay)
14:00
J. Hankamer (U. of California, Santa Cruz) Antecedent-Contained VP Deletion is Pied Wiping
14:20
P. Jacobson (Brown University) (Antecedent Contained) Deletion and Logical Form: 37 years later
14:40
J. Kim and P. Sells (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and The University of York) Sluicing in Korean
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Session 4
(chair Ev Fedorenko)
P. Miller (Université Paris Diderot) Unexpectedly acceptable
15:50
J. Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot) Rethinking deep and surface: anaphoric processes in dialogue
16:10
J. Nykiel (U. of Silesia and the U. of Chicago) Beneficial and (dis)preferred: Why do we omit prepositions from ellipsis remnants?
16:30
Coffee break
Session 5
(chair Chris Manning)
17:00
R. Levy (U. of California, San Diego) The internal structure of coordinate phrases: the nature of the coordination of likes and of preferences in conjunct ordering
17:20
F. Ackerman, R. Malouf and J. Moore (U. of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and U. of California, San Diego) Symmetrical objects and the architecture of HPSG: Evidence from Moro
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Session 6
(chair Barbara Abbott)
14:00
E. Hinrichs and T. Nakazawa (Universität Tübingen and The University of Tokyo) Evidence for verbal complexes in German from treebank data
14:20
G. Bouma (Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen) Om-Omission and Filler-Gap Dependencies
14:40
F. Van Eynde (K. U. Leuven) Complement raising in Dutch
15:00
Coffee break
Session 7
(chair Dan Flickinger)
15:30
L. Karttunen and A. Zaenen (Stanford University) Veridicality and inference
15:50
S. Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin) Why 'you' and 'I ' are special
16:10
A. Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) A Formal Semantic Analysis of Iconic Gesture
16:30
Coffee break
Session 8
(chair Janet Fodor)
17:00
G. Webelhuth (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) Barking up the wrong tree
17:20
J. Blevins (University of Cambridge) Generalizations of Phrase Structure Grammar