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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

The 10th Annual CUNY/SUNY/NYU/YU Mini-Conference
22 November, 2008 @ CUNY Graduate Center

Access to the building

The mini-conference will take pace at Martin E. Segal Theatre (lobby-level). The Graduate Center building opens at 10:00am and you will need to sign in at the security to enter the building. Please see here for more information on the directions and the school security policy.

Schedule

22 November (Saturday), 2008

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10:00-10:30
Registration and Refreshments
Session 1: Syntax I
Chair: Jeremy Rafal
10:30-11:00
 Chih-hsiang Shu (SUNY Stony Brook) The Syntax of Sentential Adverbs and Information Structure
11:00-11:30
 Miho Nagai (CUNY) Where is my subject?: Multiple Nominative Constructions in Japanese
11:30-12:00
 Hisako Takahashi (SUNY Stony Brook) On Japanese Postposition –made/-madeni/-madede and the Structure of PP
12:00-1:30
Session 2: Syntax II
Chair: Marisa Genuardi
1:30-2:00
 Patricia Irwin (NYU) SO (TOTALLY) an Exclamative
2:00-2:30
 Oussama Haddad (CUNY) The Silence of the Kinds
2:30-2:45
BREAK
Session 3: Psycholinguistics & Language Acquisition
Chair: Nazik Dinctopal
2:45-3:15
 Katharina Schuhmann (SUNY Stony Brook) Gradient Wellformedness in German I-Truncations
3:15-3:45
 Mari Fujimoto (CUNY) Japanese Particles –ga and –wa, as a Pragmatic Unit: Evidence from Child Language
3:45-4:00
BREAK
Session 4: Syntax III
Chair: Edmund O'Neill
4:00-4:30
 Thomas Leu (Yale U) Preliminary Thoughts on the Internal Syntax of jeder “every”
4:30-5:00
 Ivana Mitrovic (SUNY Stony Brook) Resumptive Pronouns in Serbian Subject and Object Relatives
5:00-5:30
 Jereon van Craenenbroeck and Mark Baltin (NYU) On Becoming a Pronoun: Towards a Unified Theory of Pronouns, Traces, and Ellipses

After-conference party

After-conference party will be held in Room 7400.