HPSG 2008 Program

July 28 (Main Conference, Day 1)
09:30Registration
10:00Opening

Chair: Takao Gunji
10:10 Danish there-constructions with transitive verbs
Anne Bjerre (Syddansk Universitet) and Tavs Bjerre (Aarhus University)
10:50Complex Case Phenomena in the Grammar Matrix
Scott Drellishak (University of Washington)
11:30Break
11:50Dualist Syntax (invited talk)
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin)
12:50Lunch

Chair: Danièle Godard
14:30Transparent Free Relatives in English
Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University)
15:10Transparent Heads
Daniel Flickinger (Stanford University)
15:50An Analysis of Pseudopartitives and Measure Phrases that Says No to Extra Rules
Tam Wai Lok (University of Tokyo) and Yo Sato (King's College London)
16:30Break

Chair: Tsuneko Nakazawa
16:50Memory Management for Unification-based Processing of Typed Feature Structures
Karen Steinicke (Universitaet Tuebingen) and Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
17:30Automatic Construction of Korean Verbal Type Hierarchy using Treebank
Sanghoun Song and Jae-Woong Choe (Korea University)
18:10Korean postpositions as weak syntactic heads
Kilsoo Ko (LLF/Paris 7)
July 29 (Main Conference, Day 2)

Chair: Dan Flickinger
09:30Coordination of Iterative Terms in Romanian - A contrastive study
Gabriela Bilbiie (Université Paris 7)
10:10Apparent Non-Constituent Coordination in Japanese
Chizuru Ito (Osaka University) and Rui Pedro Chaves (Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon)
10:50Resultative Phrases in Japanese as Modifiers
Tsuneko Nakazawa (University of Tokyo)
11:30Break
11:50From Annotation Mining to Linguistic Generalisations: The Grammar of preposition-noun combinations in German (invited talk)
Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
12:50Lunch

Chair: Shuichi Yatabe
14:30Radical Non-Configurationality without Shuffle Operators
Emily M. Bender (University of Washington)
15:10Towards an HPSG Analysis of Constituent Order in Maltese
Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)
15:50Towards a Unified Account of Adjuncts
Yo Sato (King's College London) and Wai Lok Tam (University of Tokyo)
16:30Break

Chair: Ivan Sag
16:50Predicate Complements
Frank Van Eynde (University of Leuven)
17:30French Predicative Verbless Constructions: A Clausal Analysis
Frédéric Laurens (Paris 7)
18:10The representation of syllable structure in HPSG
Jesse Tseng (CNRS & University of Toulouse)
Conference Dinner
Kasugano-so
July 30 (Workshop: Grammar at the Interfaces)

Chair: Stefan Müller
09:30The Exclamative Clause Type
Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS)
10:10On the syntax of quotation in French
Olivier Bonami (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and Danièle Godard (CNRS and U. Paris 7)
10:50Non-restrictive Relative Clauses, Ellipsis and Anaphora
Doug Arnold and Robert Borsley (University of Essex)
11:30Break
11:50Children's use of argument structure, meta knowledge of the lexicon,
and extra-linguistic contextual cues in inferring meanings of novel verbs (invited talk)
Mutsumi Imai (Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa)
12:50Lunch

Chair: Tibor Kiss
14:30Two Types of NP Preposing in French
Anne Abeillé (LLF, University Paris 7), Danièle Godard (CNRS) and Frédéric Sabio (Université de Provence)
15:10Focus projection and clitic left dislocation in Spanish
Felix Bildhauer (Freie Universität Berlin)
15:50Break

Chair: Stephen Wechsler
16:10Verb Forms in Mauritian
Fabiola Henri (LLF University of Denis Diderot-Paris 7) and Anne Abeillé (LLF, University Paris 7)
16:50The Coordinate Structure Constraint as a discourse-oriented principle: Further evidence from Japanese and Korean
Yusuke Kubota and Jungmee Lee (The Ohio State University)

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