Thursday, April 19th
3:00-7:00
Registration, West lobby of CCC
Friday, April 20th
8:00-11:00
Registration, Fifth floor hallway, CCC
8:30-9:00
Welcoming Remarks, Room 509
Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, UIC.
Larry Poston, Senior Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC.
Christopher Maurer, Head, Deptartment of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, UIC.
9:00-11:00
Phonology
Historical Linguistics
Room 501 Chair: Frank Nuessel, University of
Louisville
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
Richard Morris, Middle Tennessee State
University, From ladrar to ladrido:
Morphosemantic Conditioning in the
Derivation of Spanish Sound-Words.
Fernando Martínez-Gil, Ohio State
Kathleen M. O'Connor, Indiana University at
University Constraints on Consonantal
Bloomington, Parametric Change and the
Intrusion: Evidence from Old Spanish and
Development of SVO Interrogatives in the
Old French.
History of French.
Ioana Chitoran, Dartmouth College,
Kirsten Fudeman, Ithaca College, The
Phonemicization, Morphologization and Loss Chronology of /s/-Loss in Old French as
in the Vowel Inventory of Romanian.
Reflected in Early Judeo-French Glosses.
Susann Fischer, University of Postdam,
Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia-Law: Data
from Old Catalan.
Coffee break
Syntax
Room 501
11:30-12:00
Chair: Dieter Wanner, Ohio State
Sonia Colina, Arizona State University, No
Word-Final Epenthesis in the Synchronic
Phonology of Spanish.
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:30
Room 509
University
Margarita Suñer, Cornell University
Anna Maria DiSciullo and Stanca
Somesfalean, Université de Quebec,
Montreal. On Complement/Non-complement
Asymmetry.
Syntax
Room 510 Chair: Christina Totora, University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor
Margarita Suñer, Cornell University.The Lexical
Preverbal Subject in Romance Null Subject
Languages: Where art Thou?
Antxón Olarrea and Francisco Ordóñez,
University of Arizona and University of Illinois at
Urbana- Champaign, Questions in Caribbean
Spanish: Weak Pronouns and YP Pied-piping
Cilene Rodrigues, University of Maryland at
College Park, Loss of Morphology and Subjectto-Subject Movement in Finite Tense
Configurations
Acrisio Pires and Cilene Rodrigues, University of
Maryland at College Park, Non-finite Adjuncts in
Romance: Deriving Null Subjects through
Remnant Movement.
First language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Room 509 Chair: Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux,
University of Toronto
Room 510
Lisa Davidson and Géraldine Legendre,
Johns Hopkins University. Defaults and
Competition in the Acquisition of Functional
Categories in Catalan and French.
MaryEllen García, University of Texas at San
Antonio, Slow Death: Morphology in the Spanish
Narratives of Bilinguals.
Chair: Jorge M. Guitart, SUNY-Buffalo
12:00-12:30
12:30-2:30
1:30-2:30
2:30-4:00
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00
4:00-5:00
Ricardo Etxepare, CNRS & LEHIA, and
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, University of the
Basque Country & LEHIA, The Hidden
Syntax of in Situ WH-questions.
Lunch
Business meeting
Language in Context/Pragmatics
María Blume, Cornell University, Interaction
of Morphsyntax and Discourse Context: NonFinite Forms in the Acquisition of Spanish as
a First language
Felipe Pieras, University of Alberta, Direct vs.
Indirect Attitude Measurement and the Planning
of Catalan in Mallorca.
Second Language Acquisition
Syntax/information structure
Room 501 Chair: Graciela Reyes, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Room 509 Chair: Andrew Farley, University of
Notre Dame
Room 510
Raquel Hidalgo, Complutense University of
Madrid, From Grammar to Discourse
Organization: Metadiscursive and
Interpersonal Functions of Marked Topics in
Conversational Peninsular Spanish.
Elisa Baena, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Towards a Definition of Irony:
Analysis of the Uses of the Terms Irony,
Ironic, and Ironically in the Spanish Press.
Rosina Márquez Reiter, University of
Surrey, Pragmatic Variation in Peninsular
Spanish: the Case of Conventionally
Indirect Requests.
Yan-kit Ingrid Leung, McGill University, L2A
vs. L3A: A Comparative Study of the
Acquisition of French DPs by Vietnamese
Monolinguals and Cantonese-English
Bilinguals.
Kimberly L. Geeslin, Indiana University at
Bloomington, Native Speaker Baselines and
the Second Language Acquisition of Copula
Choice.
Julia Herschensohn and Karyn Schell,
University of Washington and Stanford
University, Constructing L2 Aspect: a
Longitudinal Study of Spanish
Preterit/Imperfect.
Syntax
Cecilia Poletto and Raffaella Zanuttini, University
of Padova and Georgetown University, Marking
New Information in the Left Periphery: the Case of
pa in Central Rhaetoromance.
Phonology
Room 501
Chair: Michael Mazzola, Northern Illinois University.
Room 509.
Chair: Elena Benedicto, Purdue University
C. Beyssade, University of Paris 3 & LLF, J.M.
Marandin, LLF & University of Paris 7, and A.
Rialland, University of Paris, Ground/Focus
Revisited. A Perspective from French.
Laura Domínguez, Boston University, Movement
Types and Focus-Marking in Catalan.
Chair: Asun Martínez Arbeláiz, Michigan State University.
4:00-4:30
Barbara Bullock, Penn State University at University Park, Split Base
Effects in French Verb Stem Allomorphy.
Jon Franco and Alazne Landa, University of Deusto and University of
the Basque Country, Null Objects Revisited: a Reply to Sánchez'
(1998) LSRL XXVIII Paper.
4:30-5:00
Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros, University of Iowa, Syllable Wellformedness,
Alignment, and Vocalization in Chilean Spanish.
Marta Luján, University of Texas at Austin, The Anaphoricity of
Determiners.
5:30-6:30
Plenary
Speaker
María Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California, Intervention effects in the French wh-in-situ construction: syntax or interpretation?
Cardinal Room.
Chair: Luis López, University of Illinois at Chicago
6:30-8:30
Reception
Cardinal Room
Remarks: Clark Hulse, Interim Dean, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Chicago
Saturday, April 21st
8:30-9:00
Registration Fifth floor hallway, CCC
9:00-11:00
Language in context/pragmatics
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
Phonology
Syntax
Room 501 Chair: Richard Cameron, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Room 509 Chair: Robert Hammond,
Purdue University
Room 510 Chair: Laurent Dekydtspotter, Indiana University at
Bloomington.
Bonnie Fonseca-Greber and Linda Waugh,
University of Arizona, The Personal
Pronouns of Spoken French:
Grammaticalization, Discourse-Pragmatic
Change, Semantic Change, and Change in
Process.
Scott Schwenter, Ohio State University, A
Pragmatic Re-Analysis of como
Conditionals.
Chip Gerfen and Kathleen Hall,
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, S-Aspiration with and
without the /s/ in Eastern Andalusian
Spanish.
Elixabete Murguia, University of Maryland, Spanish VP
Ellipsis and Coordinate Structures.
Juan Manuel Sosa and Nancy
Hedberg, Simon Fraser University,
The Prosody of Topic and Focus in
Spanish.
Randall Gess, University of Utah, On
the Resolution of Three-Consonant
Sequences in Late Latin: Phonetics,
Phonology, and Optimality Theory.
Christina Tortora, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
The Syntax of Aspectual Prepositions in Romance.
Francisco Ocampo, University of Minnesota
at Twin Cities, Topic and Focus in Spoken
Spanish.
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-2:30
2:30-4:30
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Scott Schwenter, Ohio State
University, A Scalar Propositional Negative Polarity Item
in Spanish.
Coffee break
Phonology
Syntax
Room 501
Room 509 Chair: Marta Luján, University of Texas at Austin
Chair: Barbara Bullock, Pennsylvania State University at University Park
Travis Bradley, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, On
Hypercorrection and Preaspiration in Dominican Spanish.
Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California, A Constraint
Interaction Theory of Italian Rafforzamento.
Lunch
Phonology
501 CCC Chair: José Ignacio Hualde, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:30-3:00
Eric Mathieu, University College London, On Covert
Movement in French N-Words.
Timothy Face, Ohio State University,
Contrastive Focus and Global Intonation in
Spanish.
Kate Paesani, Wayne State University, Some Thoughts on Auxiliary
Selection: The Case of the passé surcomposé.
Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University, Constraints on the Meanings of
Bare Nouns: A Comparative Study of Haitian, Seychelle and Cap
Verdian Creoles.
Language in
context/sociolinguisitcs
Syntax/semantics
Room 510. Chair: Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University.
Room 509. Chair: Anna María Escobar,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Esther Brown and Rena Torres
Cacoulos, University of New Mexico,
One Phoneme, Two variables?: Initial
vs. Final s- Reduction in Spanish.
Ana Bravo, Complutense University of Madrid, On the
Functional Status of the Epistemic Future in Spanish,
IUOG.
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00
4:00-4:30
5:00-6:00
Plenary
Speaker
7:00-8:30
Banquet
Erik Willis, Millikin University, The
Intonational Expression of Contrastive
Focus in Mexican Spanish.
Heloisa Salles and Marta Sherre,
Karen Zagona, University of Washington, The role of
Universidade de Brasília, Variation
Aspect in Construal of Complement Clause Tenses: The
between A and PARA Introducing
Double Access Reading in Spanish and Italian.
Indrect Objects in Ditransitive
Constructions: A Study of the
Northeastern Variety of Brazilian
Portuguese,
Cinzia Russi, University of Washington, On Jorge Guitart, SUNY Buffalo,
Alicia Cipria, University of Alabama, Spanish Perception
the Contrast /e/ ~ /?/, /o/~/?/ in Italian: Near Sociolinguistic Variation and Lack of Verbs and Sequence of Tenses: Aktionsart Effects.
or Complete Merger?
Stylistic Control in the Spanish of
Pseudo-Monolectals in Castile and
Puerto Rico.
N. Ariana Mrak, University of
Houston-Downtown, Clitic
Simplification in a Contact Variety of
Spanish.
Leo Wetzels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Phonology of Mid Vowels in Brazilian Portuguese.
Room 605.
Chair: Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cardinal Room
(reservation
only)
Sunday, April 22nd
9:00-10:00
Ricardo Otheguy, City University of New York, Graduate Center, Adaptation and simplification models of language contact in the Spanish of the
Plenary
United States.
Speaker
Cardinal Room.
Chair: Graciela Reyes, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:00-12:00
Language in context/pragmatics
Syntax
Second language acquisition
10:00-10:30
Room 501. Chair: Francisco Ocampo, University
of Minnesota at Twin Cities.
Room 509. Chair: Yves Roberge,
University of Toronto.
Room 510. Chair: Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of
Copenhagen, Form and Function of yes/no
Interrogatives in Spoken French
Tonia Bleam, University of
Pennsylvania, (Non) Parallels
between Double Object
Constructions and IO Clitic Doubling.
Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania, Adverb
Placement in Montreal French: L1 and L2 Speakers in a
Bilingual Contex.
10:30-11:00
1:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
Closing
remarks
Louis de Saussure and Bertrand Sthioul,
University of Texas at Austin and University
of Geneva, French "narrative imparfait" and
Represented Thought.
John Charles Smith, University of
Oxford (St. Catherine’s College),
Romance Ethics and Basque
Allocutives: Encoding NonArguments in Verbal Morphology.
Michela Ippolito, Massachusetts Institute of Julie Auger, Indiana University at
Technology, The Imperfect Modality.
Bloomington, Pronominal Clitics in
Picard Revisited.
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio,
Pennsylvania State University at
University Park, On Adjectival
Modification in Spanish-English
Code-Switching.
Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room 605.
Giuli Dussias, University of Mississippi, and Nuria
Sagarra, University of New Mexico, Online Processing of
Tense and Plurality in a Second Language: the
Competition between Lexical and Grammatical Cues.