nels 29 program * * * * * * * * * * * * n e l s 29 * * * * * * * * * * * * * annual meeting of the northeastern linguistic society * * * university of delaware , newark , de october 16-18 , 1998 < http : / / sun . ling . udel . edu / nels - 29 > nels - 29 @ udel . edu registration information preregistration fees * * * $ 20 ( us ) for students and $ 40 ( us ) for others before september 16 , 1998 . on - site registration fees * * * $ 25 ( us ) for students and $ 50 ( us ) for others for further information , including the registration form , please consult the nels 29 website or contact us at the e-mail address listed above . < http : / / sun . ling . udel . edu / nels - 29 > nels 29 preliminary schedule this schedule will be updated on the nels 29 web page as more information becomes available . you can also find information about accommodations and traveling to the university of delaware on the web page . friday , october 16th talks 1 : 00 - 1 : 30 mark baker & ot stewart " verb movement , objects , and verb serialization " 1 : 30 - 2 : 00 junko shimoyama " complex nps and wh - quantification in japanese " 2 : 00 - 2 : 30 paul elbourne " does attract f carry along ff [ f ] " 2 : 30 - 3 : 30 break 3 : 30 - 4 : 00 elisabeth villalta " resolution of scope ambiguities in ' how many ' questions " 4 : 00 - 4 : 30 nigel duffield & ayumi matsuo " the acquisition of ellipsis and anaphora by first and second language learners " 4 : 30 - 5 : 00 charlotte koster & kenneth drozd " dutch children 's understanding of bound - variable constructions " 5 : 00 - 5 : 30 break 5 : 30 - 6 : 00 felicia lee " evidence for tense in a ' tenseless ' language " 6 : 00 - 6 : 30 natalia kondrashova " barenaked tenses and their morphological outfits " saturday , october 17 , 1998 talks 9 : 00 - 9 : 30 johan rooryck & guido vanden wyngaerd " puzzles of identity : binding at the interface " 9 : 30-10 : 00 phil branigan & marguerite mackenzie " binding relations and the nature of pro in innu - aimun " 10 : 00-10 : 30 idan landau " control and extraposition : the case of super - equi " 10 : 30-11 : 00 break 11 : 00-11 : 30 ted fernald " an anaphoric account of stage - level predicates " 11 : 30-12 : 00 uli sauerland " why variables ? " 12 : 00-12 : 30 julie anne legate " on the interpretation of indefinites " 12 : 30 - 2 : 00 lunch parallel sessions 2 : 00 - 2 : 30 roumyana izvorski " specificational pseudoclefts have equative syntax ( and this helps explain their crosslinguistic availability ) " jongho jun " generalized sympathy " 2 : 30 - 3 : 00 masao ochi " multiple spell - out and pf adjacency " gunnar olafur hansson " ' when in doubt . . . ' : intraparadigmatic dependencies and gaps in icelandic " 3 : 00 - 3 : 30 artemis alexiadou " an ergative pattern in a nominative - accusative language " amanda miller - ockhuizen " reduplication in ju / ' hoasi : tone determines weight " 3 : 30 - 4 : 00 break 4 : 00 - 4 : 30 cristina schmitt & alan munn " against the nominal mapping parameter : bare nouns in brazilian portuguese " sung - a kim " tone spread decomposed : phonological rule v . phonetic timing " 4 : 30 - 5 : 00 christina tortora " agreement , case , and i-subjects " marie - helene cote " syllable structure and domain-final strengthening : evidence from basque " 5 : 00 - 5 : 30 xuan zhou " mandarin negations as negative aspectual elements " alexei kochetov " constraints on distribution of palatalized stops : evidence for licensing by cue " 5 : 30 - 8 : 00 dinner 8 : 00 party sunday , october 18 , 1998 9 : 30-10 : 00 steven bird " word domains and double downstep in bamileke - dschang " 10 : 00-10 : 30 paola monachesi " syntactic and prosodic properties of italian restructuring verbs " 10 : 30-11 : 00 hisao tokizaki " prosodic phrasing and bare phrase structure " 11 : 00-11 : 30 coffee break 11 : 30-12 : 00 takashi toyoshima " move 1st : a dynamic economy plan " 12 : 00-12 : 30 ida toivonen " swedish place expressions " 12 : 30 - 1 : 00 rajesh bhatt " argument - adjunct asymmetries in rhetorical questions " alternate papers : yoonjung kang " ' universal ' markedness and markedness reversal " ken vanbik & andreas kathol " morphology - syntax interface in lai internally - headed relative clauses " jong - bok kim " constraints on the formation of korean and english resultatives " poster presentations : there will be two poster sessions : friday , 2 : 30 - 5 : 30 saturday , 9 : 00-12 : 30 the schedule for which posters are in which session will be posted to the nels 29 web page when times are finalized . brian agbayani " the locality and optionality of scrambling " calixto aguero - batista " identity effects in spanish diminutives " mee - jin ahn " vowel length - driven syllable weight " artemis alexiadou & elena anagnostopoulou " non - active morphology and the direction of transitivity alternations " elena anagnostopoulou " on clitics , feature movement and double object alternations " ralph blight " subjects positions and ellipsis in germanic " cedric boeckx " expletive split : existentials and presentationals " patrick bye " extending prosodic faithfulness : evidence from the mora " gloria cocchi " on symmetrical double object constructions : a case of multiple feature-checking " kenneth drozd & erik van loosbroek " dutch children 's comprehension of constructions with the focus particle ` alleen ' ( ` only ' ) " tom ernst " adjuncts , the universal base , and word order typology " adamantios gafos & linda lombardi " consonant transparency in vowel echo " chung - hye han " the contribution of force and mood in the semantics of imperatives " hooi ling soh " object scrambling in chinese : a comparison with scrambling in dutch and german " david lebeaux " where does the binding theory apply ? " winfried lechner " on comparative deletion " ki - suk lee " additional wh-effects on different constructions " bruce moren " syllable weight asymmetries in distinctive and coercive environments " ileana paul " malagasy wh-movement " sasa vukic " on case and the mlc " phillippe schlenker " skolem functions and the scope of indefinites " sandra stjepanovic " superiority and multiple sluicing in serbo - croatian " stefano vegnduzzo " sequence of aspects ( and lack thereof ) in naudm " colin wilson " bidirectional optimization and the binding theory " jie zhang " the / n / - / ng / asymmetry upon / r / - suffixation in beijing and elsewhere - - max or ident ? "