austrofest
Saturday, February 5, 2005
MJH, Rm 126, Stanford University


Cosponsored by the Linguistics Department Colloquium Series and the Semantics Workshop

We are very pleased to announce a one-day workshop focussed on Austronesian syntax and semantics, on February 5th, 2005, featuring presentations by Sandy Chung, Diane Massam, Ileana Paul, Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. The schedule and abstracts are posted below.

Everyone is welcome.

presenters


Sandy Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
A look at sluicing in Chamorro

Diane Massam, University of Toronto
Non-Verbal Predication in Niuean

Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario
Pseudoclefts and topicalization

Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida
Malagasy Control Patterns, Syntactic Theory, and Cross-linguistic Variation


schedule and abstracts


(click on a title to see the abstract)

9:30 Non-Verbal Predication in Niuean
Diane Massam

11:00 A look at sluicing in Chamorro
Sandy Chung

2:00 Pseudoclefts and topicalization
Ileana Paul

3:30 Malagasy Control Patterns, Syntactic Theory, and Cross-linguistic Variation
Maria Polinsky, Eric Potsdam













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