Program of the first annual research seminar miniconference

(With some guest appearances by participants in the semantics seminar: an added attraction!)

Tuesday, 2 December 2003

Session 1: Semantics and pragmatics (Linguistics Lounge, 3rd floor of Classics)

1:30-1:50 Jung Hyuck Lee Forms of address in Korean
1:50-2:10 Jonathon Cihlar Compositional interaction of sub-event aspectual markers, -in- and reduplication in Tagalog
2:10-2:30 Keiko Yoshimura Scope vs. polarity: Japanese -sae

2:30-2:45 Break

Session 2: Semantics (Classics 10)
2:45-3:05 Eun-Hae Park TBA
3:05-3:25 Adam Cooper TBA
3:25-3:45 Nikki Adams A semantic account of restrictions on focus particle combinations
3:45-4:05 Mayu Yoshihara Momentary until in Mongolian

4:05-4:15 Break

Session 3: Syntax and semantics (Classics 10)
4:15-4:35 Robert Lehner A preliminary investigation of noun-noun compound semantics in English
4:35-4:55 Rod Edwards Development of the Southern double object construction
4:55-5:15 Hye-Jin Han A DP shell for CPs

5:15-5:30 Break

Session 4: Phonology and historical (Classics 10)
5:30-5:50 Stefanie Kuzmack A non-derivational account of high tone deletion in Kikerewe
5:50-6:10 Ilya Yakubovich Head-noun ellipsis in Hittite
6:10-6:30 Aaron Griffith Intervocalic *s in British Celtic