text_combined: conference program ling symp math ling xxviii linguistic symposium romance languages lsrl 28 workshop mathematical linguistics wml conference program talks take place nittany lion inn 200 west park avenue state college pennsylvania 1800 2337505 814 8658500 additional information consult conference website http www psu edu lsrl thursday april 16 1998 8 30 pm 11 00 pm registration rotunda lobby 8 30 pm 9 00 pm refreshments ballroom e 9 00 pm opening remarks susan welch dean college liberal arts ballroom e 9 15 pm 10 15 pm invited lecture richard kayne new york university clitic doubling movement binding theory ballroom e friday april 17 1998 8 00 9 00 coffee tea breakfast rolls boardrooms ii 8 30 11 30 registration rotunda lobby 8 30 5 00 pm book exhibits colonial rooms ii special open workshop mathematical linguistics title linguists expect mathematical linguistics boardrooms ii chair lisa reed pennsylvania state university 9 00 carlos martin vide rovira virgili university gheorghe paun romanian academy grzegorz rozenberg leiden university arto salomaa university turku x families approach study families syntactically similar languages 10 00 walter j savitch university california san diego computational complexity language models 11 00 11 15 refreshment break boardrooms ii parallel sessions session 1 lsrl boardrooms ii chair heles contreras university washington 11 15 margarita suner cornell university crosslinguistic view object shift 11 45 jon franco universidad de deusto bilbao errapel mejias bikandi university nebraska lincoln presuppositionality condition spanish clitic doubled objects 12 15 pm maarten de wind university amsterdam holland institute generative linguistics deriving heavy np shift french session 2 wml assembly room chair carlos martin vide rovira virgili university 11 15 relja vulanovic kent state university grammar efficiency historical development word order french 11 45 claude del vigna centre national de la recherche scientifique paris commands binary relations 12 15 pm javier gutierrez rexach ohio state university generalized minimalist grammars 12 45 pm 1 45 pm lunch break session 3 lsrl boardrooms ii chair grant goodall university texas el paso 2 00 pm heles contreras university washington negation english spanish neg parameter 2 30 pm ricardo etxepare l e spain paratactic dependencies covert merge 3 00 pm raffaella zanuttini paul portner georgetown university independence specifier head cp 3 30 pm refreshment break 3 45 pm invited lecture karen zagona university washington tense construal clausal structure feature checking boardrooms ii session 4 wml assembly room chair walter j savitch university california san diego 2 00 pm manfred kudlek universitat hamburg carlos martin vide rovira virgili university alexandru mateescu turku centre computer science infinite hierarchy mildly context sensitive families languages 2 30 pm jose f quesada centro de informatica cientifica de andalucia sevilla overparsing 3 00 pm gerhard jager university pennsylvania generative capacity multi modal categorial grammars 3 30 pm valeria mihalache turku centre computer science grammar systems cooperating distributed framework syntax natural languages 4 00 pm vincenzo manca universita di pisa logical splicing natural languages 4 30 pm 4 45 pm wml closing remarks 5 00 pm 6 00 pm reception alumni fireside lounge 6 00 pm 7 45 pm dinner break 7 30 pm 8 00 pm refreshments assembly room 8 00 pm 9 00 pm public lecture historical linguistics philip baldi pennsylvania state university reclaimimg linguistic past assembly room saturday april 18 1998 8 00 8 30 coffee tea breakfast rolls boardrooms ii 8 30 11 30 registration rotunda lobby 8 30 5 00 pm book exhibits colonial rooms ii parallel sessions session 5 boardrooms ii chair margarita suner cornell university 8 30 christina tortora university michigan non existence non agreeing subjects romance 9 00 grant goodall university texas el paso passives arbitrary plural subjects spanish 9 30 mihaela pirvulescu yves roberge university toronto romanian objects structure imperatives session 6 assembly room chair holly j nibert pennsylvania state university 8 30 james p giangola general magic inc optimization portuguese verb representations vowel harmony revisited 9 00 yolanda rivera castillo university houston downtown constraints stem vowel alternations dipthongization spanish lexical account 9 30 viola miglio university maryland towards typology vowel reduction phenomena romance 10 00 refreshment break session 7 boardrooms ii chair sandra savignon pennsylvania state university 10 30 marie therese vinet universite de sherbrooke aspectual modification licensing tu pas quebec french 11 00 julia herschensohn university washington minimalist access ug l2 french 11 30 j liceras e valenzuela e rosado university ottawa l diaz universitat pompeu fabra barcelona role morphological paradigms acquisition syntactic knowledge n drop null subjects l1 l2 spanish session 8 assembly room chair mary ellen scullen university louisville 10 30 bernard tranel university california irvine optional schwa deletion syllable economy french 11 00 mariapaola imperio sam rosenthall ohio state university phonetics phonology italian main stress 11 30 randall gess university utah positional faithfulness vs cue preservation case nasal sequence resolution gallo romance 12 00 pm 1 15 pm lunch break 1 30 pm invited lecture donca steriade university california los angeles lexical conservatism effects french adjectival liaison boardrooms ii session 9 boardrooms ii chair lisa noetzel franklin marshall college 2 45 pm jairo nunes unicamp brazil eduardo raposo university california santa barbara ajectival agreement portuguese inflected infinitives necessity non trivial chains f checking 3 15 pm aafke hulk university amsterdam christine tellier universite de montreal conflictual agreement romance nominals 3 45 pm marie claude boivin massachusetts institute technology case feature checking consequences evidence encliticization french session 10 assembly room chair marie gillette pennsylvania state university 2 45 pm j clancy clements indiana university spanish overt case marking basic word order morphological approach 3 15 pm vieri samek lodovici universitat konstanz ghost verbs italian nominalizations relevance unitary base hypothesis 3 45 pm anna thornton universita dell aquila gender inflectional class assignment italian nouns 4 15 pm refreshment break session 11 boardrooms ii chair paul portner georgetown university 4 30 pm liliana sanchez carnegie mellon university null objects contact varieties spanish 5 00 pm tonia bleam university delaware object bare plurals spanish semantics personal 5 30 pm javier gutierrez rexach ohio state university group indefinites session 12 assembly room chair margaret kehoe pennsylvania state university 4 30 pm j hannahs university durham unexceptional exceptions french glides 5 00 pm ellen kaisse university washington resyllabification precedes segmental rules evidence argentinian spanish 5 30 pm c wiltshire e maranzana university florida gainesville geminates clusters italian piedmontese case ot ranking 6 00 pm 6 30 pm open business meeting boardrooms ii 8 30 pm 10 00 pm banquet tavern restaurant 220 east college ave sunday april 19 1998 8 00 8 30 coffee tea breakfast rolls boardrooms ii general session 13 boardrooms ii chair christine tellier universite de montreal 8 30 geraldine legendre johns hopkins university revisiting french stylistic complex inversion 9 00 jose camacho rutgers university similar conjuncts 9 30 gorka elordieta university california los angeles morphosyntax driving phonology case french liaison 10 00 refreshment break general session 14 boardrooms ii chair geraldine legendre johns hopkins university 10 30 virginia motapanyane university new brunswick saint john de supines object subject raising 11 00 ana perez leroux pennsylvania state university possessor anaphors structure dps 11 30 luis silva villar university california los angeles javier gutierrez rexach ohio state university demonstratives feature based derivations alternate speakers phonology travis bradley pennsylvania state university assibilation ecuadorian spanish phonology phonetics account semantics elena herburger georgetown university lexical ambiguity always evil case ni ni syntax asun martinez arbelaiz michigan state university spanish double cp evidence government wh feature selection cecilia poletto universita di padova raffaella zanuttini georgetown university syntax imperatives evidence rhaetoromance lsrl 28 organizing committee marc authier barbara bullock lisa reed wishes thank following penn state units financial support lsrl 28 continuing distance education research graduate studies office college liberal arts department french department spanish italian portuguese center linguistics office international partnerships academic linkages department classics ancient mediterranean studies department philosophy department psychology would also like acknowledge invaluable assistance geoffrey conrad lori fox benson chuck wilson planning meeting lsrl additional thanks scholars reviewed abstracts lsrl 28 joseph aoun julie auger andrea calabrese hector campos gennaro chierchia heles contreras violeta demonte donka farkas randall gess grant goodall jorge guitart barbara hancin bhatt james harris julia herschensohn jose hualde haike jacobs juana liceras john lipski diane massam jean pierre montreuil alfonso morales front donna jo napoli rafael nunez cedeno ana perez leroux paul postal lori repetti yves roberge mario saltarelli lisa selkirk dominique sportiche donca steriade margarita suner esther torrego bernard tranel co vet marie therese vinet amy weinberg lydia white karen zagona raffaella zanuttini maria luisa zubizarreta finally wish thank carlos martin vide organizing concurrent workshop mathematical linguistics robert berwick walter j savitch serving wml program committee philip baldi giving outreach lecture