Session:
Morphology, Phonology
Chair: Gunnar Hansson

Session:
Syntax
Chair: William Salmon

McAuliffe (UW)
Suffix origin and stress shift: The
Suffix Pattern Hypothesis

Bjorkman (MIT)
Go Get, Come See: The Syntax of
a Double-Verb Construction in
North American English

Gerlach (UM)
Consonant harmony and
metathesis patterns in
phonological acquisition

Pucilowski (UofO)
Noun Incorporation in Sora

Li (PU, China)
The effects of character knowledge
on understanding meanings and
the parts of speech of two character
Chinese compounds

PLENARY SPEAKER:
Dr. Yuwen Lai (UBC)
Cross-language production and perception of prosodic cues

Session:
Phonology, Phonetics
Chair: Pat Shaw

Session:
Syntax
Chair: Martina Wiltschko

Chávez-Peón (UBC)
Tone-Bearing Units in Quiaviní
Zapotec: The split between Fortis
and Lenis Sonorants

Johansson (UofC)
A Syntactic Classifcation of
Blackfoot -attsi Causatives:
Sidelong Insights into Verb
Structure

Hyslop (UofO)
Tone and Tonogenesis in Bhutan:
degrees of tonality?

Kim (UofT)
Introducing non-agentive causees

Lindsay (SBU)
American English iz-infixation: an
interaction of stress, metrics, and
rhyme

Bliss (UBC)
Case Asymmetry and Information
Structure in Shona

Session:
Applied Linguistics
Chair: Bryan Gick

Session:
Syntax, Semantics
Chair: Lisa Matthewson

Cohen (UVic)
The Production of Three-Member Codas by Native Speakers of
English; an Erroneous Target?

Chow (Ottowa)
A re-analysis of the optional wh- particle in Chinese

Rimrott & Heift (SFU)
Vocabulary annotations for
abstract and concrete L2 words

Lu (SBU)
Quantifier stranding and reflexive
stranding in Mayrinax Atayal

Glombitza (UT/UBC)
Intelligibility is not the Whole
Story: New Perspectives on the
Strategic Use of English as a
Lingua Franca

Kim & Kim (KHU, Seoul)
English Floating Quantifiers: A
Non-movement Approach

Turner (UofS, UK)
Optional Features in
SENĆOŦEN: Arguments for
Neutral Aspect

PARTY
5.15pm dinner provided at Totem Fields Studio
8.00pm party at Koerner's Pub on campus

Session:
Semantics, Pragmatics
Chair: Hotze Rullmann

Session:
Syntax
Chair: Fritz Newmeyer

Komoto (UW)
Counterfactual reading of
"epistemic" modals in Japanese

Goodenkauf (UW)
Tough-Constructions as
Topicalization

Mameni (SFU)
Confirmation Questions

Yip (UW)
The Information Structure of the
Chinese DP

Yang (Yale)
The English get passive

Antonenko (SBU)
Subject Obviation and Case

Session:
Discourse Analysis /
Applied Linguistics
Chair: Joe Stemberger

Session:
Syntax-Semantics
Chair: Yosuke Sato

Hsu (NTNU, Taiwan)
A corpus-based approach to
antonym co-occurrences in
Mandarin Chinese

Storoshenko (SFU)
The Syntactic and Semantic Status
of Reflexives and Reciprocals in
Shona

Huang (NTNU, Taiwan)
Interaction between Form and
Function: A Study on Chinese
Rhetorical Interrogatives in a Talk
Show in Taiwan

Ferch (UBC)
The Scope of Negation in Shona

Lin (NTNU, Taiwan)
What does it Mean to Be
Wordless? Observations on '...'
from MSN Talk in Mandarin

Hugo (UW)
Moroccan Arabic NPIs and
Minimalism