9:00-10:00 | Registration and coffee | ||
10:00-10:20 | Welcoming remarks | ||
10:20-11:20 | ~Invited Speaker~ | ||
Marina Nespor | |||
University of Milano-Bicocca | |||
(work in collaboration with Alan Langus) | |||
Different cognitive systems struggling for word order | |||
11:20-11:40 | Coffee break | ||
11:40-12:20 | Gabi Danon | ||
Bar Ilan University | |||
Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew | |||
12:20-13:00 | Lena Ibnbari | ||
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | |||
Russian gerundive gaps as topic drop | |||
13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
14:30-15:10 | Lior Laks | ||
Tel Aviv University | |||
Why do Verbs Change Their Form? A Morpho-Thematic Account | |||
15:10-15:50 | Aviya Hacohen, Dana Kozlowski & Ariel Cohen | ||
Ben-Gurion University | |||
Superlative Quantifiers as Speech Act Modifiers: Experimental Evidence from Hebrew | |||
15:50-16:30 | Chen Gafni | ||
Tel-Aviv University | |||
The role of Consonant Harmony in child language | |||
16:30-16:50 | Coffee break | ||
Special session: sign language | |||
16:50-17:00 | Wendy Sandler | ||
Haifa University | |||
Introduction to the Sign Language sessions | |||
17:00-17:40 | Vadim Kimmelman | ||
University of Amsterdam | |||
Doubling in RSL and NGT -- a unified account | |||
17:40-18:20 | Christina Healy, Svetlana Dachkovsky & Wendy Sandler | ||
Haifa University | |||
The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody | |||
19:00 | Conference Dinner |
9:30-10:30 | ~Invited Speaker~ | ||
Bencie Woll | |||
University College London | |||
Using a linguistic savant's learning of British Sign Language to explore linguistic theory | |||
10:30-10:50 | Coffee break | ||
10:50-11:30 | Roland Pfau and Enoch Aboh | ||
University of Amsterdam | |||
Spatial adpositions in sign languages | |||
11:30-12:10 | Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler, Mark Aronoff, & Carol Padden | ||
University of Haifa, SUNY Stony Brook, UC California | |||
The Self-Organization of Lexical Domains in Sign Language | |||
12:10-12:30 | Business Meeting | ||
12:30-13:40 | Lunch | ||
13:40-14:20 | Yaron McNabb | ||
University of Chicago | |||
Hebrew Definite Marking as Post-Syntactic Local Dislocation | |||
14:20-15:00 | Dina Orenstein | ||
Bar Ilan University | |||
The Hebrew be-sax ha-kol: An exclusive analysis of an approximative reading | |||
15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | ||
15:20-16:00 | Keren Kharizman and Yael Greenberg | ||
Bar Ilan University | |||
Bixlal: A general strengthening operator in Hebrew | |||
16:00-16:40 | Micha Y. Breakstone | ||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |||
Inherent Evaluativity | |||
16:40-17:20 | Galit W. Sassoon | ||
University of Amsterdam | |||
A slightly modified economy principle: Stable properties have non-stable standards | |||
176:30 | Reception |