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Monday, 6/29/15
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Chair: Itamar Kastner | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Alec Marantz (NYU) | Introduction |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London) | Roots, Categories and Mapping to the Interfaces |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Dunja Veselinović | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Richard S. Kayne (NYU) | Antisymmetry and Morphology. Prefixes and Suffixes |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart) | Encoding properties: the case of English ‘nominalized’ adjectives |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Tal Linzen | ||
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Malka Rappaport Hovav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Towards an understanding of the notions of ‘manner’ and ‘result’ and their role in the construction of verb meaning |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Break | |
| Chair: Adina Williams | ||
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Beth Levin (Stanford University) | The Realization of Manner Roots: Evidence from the Crosslinguistic Encoding of Hitting Events |
| 4:00 – 4:45 | Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø) | Partitioning Structural and Conceptual Meaning in Verb Semantics |
| 6:00 | Reception | Department of Linguistics, 10 Washington Place, 2nd floor |
Tuesday, 6/30/15
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Chair: Dániel Szeredi | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete, via Skype) | Exploring roots in their contexts: instrument verbs, manners and results in adjectival participles |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Vera Gribanova (Stanford University) | Roots in ellipsis and multidominance |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Steven Foley | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Maria Gouskova (NYU) | Roots, affixes, and prosodic words in phonological selection |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Andrew Nevins (University College London) | The Exponent List and the Encyclopedic List: Structurally Parallel, Mutually Mute |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Linmin Zhang | ||
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Marijke De Belder (HU Brussels) | The epenthetic consonant in Dutch diminutives and Spell-Out |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Break | |
| Chair: Maria Kouneli | ||
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Jim Wood (Yale University) | How roots do and don’t constrain the interpretation of Voice |
| 4:00 – 4:45 | Florian Schäfer (École Normale Supérieure) | Medio-passives within a formal typology of Voice |
| 7:00 | Conference dinner | Department of Linguistics, 10 Washington Pl |
Wednesday, 7/01/15
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Chair: Laura Gwilliams | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University) | Impoverishment, Gender, and Number: Predicting the Patterns of Syncretism |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Matthew A. Tucker (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Your Roots Are Showing: On Root-Sensitive Allomorphy in Arabic |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Dan Duncan | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Neil Myler (Boston University) | The Grammar of some Rootless Structures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Gillian Gallagher (NYU) | Root Phonotactics |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Dylan Bumford | ||
| 2:00 – 2:45 | John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin) | Scalar Change and Manner/Result Complementarity in Manner of Motion Verbs |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Break | |
| Chair: Jeremy Kuhn | ||
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester) and Itamar Francez (University of Chicago) |
Semantically impossible adjectives |
| 5:00 – 7:00 | Panel event | More than words: Morphology and the universality of language |
Thursday, 7/02/15
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Chair: Yohei Oseki | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø) | Words and Spans |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary, University of London) | Composed duals: not suppletion, but morphosemantics |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Vera Zu | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) | Hiaki verbal number suppletion really is suppletion |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Jonathan D. Bobaljik (University of Connecticut) | Locality below X˚ |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Break | |
| Chair: Itamar Kastner | ||
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London) | Beyond Roots |
| 1:45 – 2:00 | Closing Remarks |