The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:
(UN)USUAL EVENTS FEST
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460
Cosponsored by the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Center Stanford University
SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS
09:15-9:30
Coffee and welcome
9:30-10:30
Keren Rice
(University of Toronto)
Incorporated Subjects of Transitive Verbs: Athabaskan Case
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:45
Juergen Bohnemeyer
(University of Buffalo-SUNY)
How to Hammer a Shirt Apart (and Talk about It): Unusual Instrument-Theme Configurations and Complex Predicates Across Languages
11:45-12:15
Caitlin Fausey
(Stanford University)
Se what? Descriptions of Accidents Vary Across Languages and Speakers
12:15-1:45
Lunch break
1:45-2:45
Maria Polinsky
(Harvard University/UCSD)
Complementation in a Language Without Complement Clauses
2:45-3:15
Nola Stephens
(Stanford University)
Controlling the Weather
3:15-3:30
Break
3:30-4:30
Alice Gaby
(University of Califiornia-Berkeley)
When Reciprocity Goes Without Saying: Event Typicality and Reciprocal Coding in Kuuk Thaayorre
4:30-5:00
Tatiana Nikitina
(Stanford University)
Lexical Meaning and Contextual Inference: Goal/Source Ambiguity in Descriptions of Motion
