Schedule for the Workshop on Understudied Languages and Syntactic Theory (Aug 27th)


8.00 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome
9.10 – 10.10 Invited talk: George A. Broadwell
"Language description and the lexicon: Verbs of wearing in two Oaxacan languages"
10.10 – 10.50 Michael Hahn
"Predication and NP Structure in an Omnipredicative Language: The Case of Khoekhoe"
10.50 – 11.10 Break
11.10 – 11.50 Cristin Kalinowski and Jeff Good
"Focus as a grammatical relation: Evidence from Africa"
11:50 – 12.30  Shrita Hassamal and Anne Abeillé
"Degree adverbs in Mauritian Creole"
12:30 – 13.30  Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30 Invited talk: Philip LeSourd
"Raising and Long Distance Agreement in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: A Unified Analysis"
14.30 – 15.10 Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva
"Focus feature percolation: Evidence from Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir"
15.10 – 15:50  Dong-Yi Lin
"Obligatory Control and Event Structure in Kavalan"
15.50 – 16.10 Break
16.10 – 16.50 Pegah Faghiri, Pollet Samvelian and Barbara Hemforth
"Accessibility and Word Order: The case of ditransitive constructions in Persian"
16.50 – 17.50 Invited talk: Matthew Dryer
"Agreement phenomena in Walman, a language of Papua New Guinea"
17.50 – 18.00 Closing


Alternates Samuel Alhassan Issah and James Gurindow M-Minibo Ibrahim
'Conjoint and disjoint verb alternation in Dagbani'

Kazuhiro Kawachi
'Copula Constructions in Kupsapiny'

Nuttanart Muansuwan Facundes
'Observations and Analysis of Psych Verbs in Thai'

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