generative approaches to sla iv generative approaches to second language acquisition ( gasla ' 98 ) september 25-27 , 1998 university of pittsburgh / carnegie mellon university preliminary program the conference and entertainment events will take place in 2m56 / 2p56 forbes quad located between bouquet st . and bigelow blvd . the department of linguistics is on the 28th floor of the cathedral of learning , located between 5th avenue and forbes avenue . the phone number is 624-5900 and the administrators are carolyn , anna - mae , and rebecca . they will be available on friday from 8 . 30 until 5 : 00 for if you have any questions regarding the location of the conference . preliminary program friday , september 25 8 : 30-10 : 00 : registration ( ongoing ) 10 : 00 : opening remarks 10 : 30-12 : 00 : session 1 . 10 : 30 : ' the use and abuse of linguistic theory in l2 acquisition research ' bonnie d . schwartz , university of durham rex a . sprouse , indiana university 11 : 00 : ' transitivity alternations in l2 acquisition : toward a modular view of transfer ' silvina a . montrul , suny - albany 11 : 30 : ' syntactic structure and information structure in the acquisition of the english dative alternation by native speakers of japanese ' robert bley - vroman and kazuko katsufuji , university of hawaii 12 : 00 - 1 : 30 lunch break 1 : 30 - 3 : 00 : session 2 . 1 : 30 : ' surface unaccusativity in l2 japanese speakers ' makiko hirakawa , tokyo international university 2 : 00 : ' the role of the lexicon in the second language acquisition of spanish word order ' tammy jandrey hertel and ana teresa perez - leroux , the pennsylvania state university 2 : 30 : ' the l2 acquisition of telicity in english by spanish and slavic native speakers ' roumyana slabakova , university of iowa 3 : 00 - 3 : 30 : coffee break 3 : 30 - 5 : 00 : session 3 . 3 : 30 : ' the acquisition of possession in l2 dutch ' ineke van de craats , norbert corver and roeland van hout , tilburg university 4 : 00 : ' " washing the faces " : acquisition of possessor raising in l2 spanish ' beatriz centeno - cortes , gillian lord , erin o'rourke and ana teresa perez - leroux , the pennsylvania state university 4 : 30 : ' the " compounding parameter " in l2 acquisition : the subset principle revisited ' juana m . liceras , elena valenzuela , university of ottawa 5 : 15 : plenary : peter gordon : to be announced . 6 : 30 : wine and cheese saturday , september 26 9 : 30-10 : 30 : session 1 . 9 : 30 : ' variability in l2 english grammatical morphemes : the question of functional categories in a peformance versus knowledge paradigm ' g . martohardjono , k . kessler , i . finger and p . argodale , city university of new york 10 : 00 : ' using constituent coordination to explore functional projections ' helmut zobl , carleton university 10 : 30-11 : 00 coffee break 11 : 00-12 : 30 : session 2 . 11 : 00 : ' functional categories in child l2 acquisition of english : the acquisition of the ip system ' belma haznedar , bogazici university 11 : 30 : ' accounting for variability in sla : more evidence for the missing inflection hypothesis ' philippe prevost , universite laval lydia white , mcgill university 12 : 00 : ' the acquisition of tense and aspect in l2 english ' joanne sher grumet , city university of new york 12 : 30 - 2 : 00 lunch break 2 : 00 - 3 : 30 : session 3 . chair : 2 : 00 : ' on optionality and grammaticality in l2 knowledge ' donna lardiere , georgetown university 2 : 30 : ' second language acquisition ( sla ) as a promoting factor in language change ' doris stolberg , universitat tubingen 3 : 00 : ' adult second language acquisition and language change : on the mirror-world of chaos and order in language development ' carolina plaza - pust , j . - w . - goethe universitat 3 : 30 - 4 : 00 : coffee break 4 : 00 - 5 : 30 : session 4 . chair : 4 : 00 : ' principles of l2 pronunciation : the question of learnability ' fred eckman and gregory iverson , university of wisconsin - milwaukee 4 : 30 : ' the acquisition of english { theta } and { h } vs . { engma } by canadian francophones ' darlene lacharite and philippe prevost , universite laval 5 : 00 : ' the markedness differential hypothesis and vietnamese learners with english consonants ' hoa pham , university of toronto 5 : 45 : plenary : usha lakshmanan , southern illinois univ . ' clause structure in child second language grammars ' sunday , september 27 9 : 30-11 : 00 : session 1 . 9 : 30 : ' an unexpected wh-phrase extraction pattern in the advanced l2 english of malay speakers ' bee eng wong and roger hawkins , university of essex 10 : 00 : ' optimal questions in l2 acquisition ' rakesh m . bhatt , university of south carolina 10 : 30 : ' when and why-questions in sla ' hyeson park , university of arizona 11 : 00-11 : 30 : coffee break 11 : 30 - 1 : 30 : session 2 . 11 : 30 : ' the interpretation of " combien . . . de " extractions : the primacy of syntax in second language acquisition laurent dekydtspotter , rex a . sprouse and kimberly a . swanson , indiana university 12 : 00 : ' uniformity or difference : the german root and subordinate clause in adult sla ' susanne nimmrichter , franklin & marshall college 12 : 30 : ' the impersonal constructions in spanish and near-native competence : evidence against the fundamental difference hypothesis ' joyce l . s . bruhn de garavito , mcgill university 1 : 00 : plenary : ' ug in sla : the state of the question ' lydia white , mcgill university 2 . 00 business meeting announcements concerning the gasla 2000 conference at mit . alternate papers : sharon armon - lotem , univ . of maryland : preconjunctionals in child sla gasla iv september 25-27 th 1998 hosted by the university of pittsburgh and carnegie mellon university http : / / verb . linguist . pitt . edu / ~ gasla /