Program: IATL 37

37th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics
19-20 October 2022
Hosted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Language, Logic and Linguistic Center (LLCC)
Venue: LLCC Seminar room

Wednesday, October 19

10:00
Welcoming remarks

10:10-11:10
Invited speaker: Laura Kalin, Princeton University
Infixation and the Morphology-Syntax Interface (abstract)

11:10-11:50
Pavel Rudnev, HSE University
Free Merge, negative concord and long-distance scrambling in Russian (abstract) (slides)

11:50-12:10 Coffee Break

12:10-12:50
Yuval Z. Katz, Ronit Szterman, Gur Shalom and Naama Friedmann, Tel Aviv University
A dissociation between A’-movement and pronouns in orally-trained children with a hearing impairment (abstract)

12:50-13:30
Ziv Plotnik, Aya Meltzer-Asscher and Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
The Relevance of Unaccusativity to Possessive Datives (abstract)

13:30-14:40 Lunch break

14:40-15:40 Poster Session

Netta Ben-Meir, UC Santa Cruz
The prosodic structure of construct state nominals in Modern Hebrew (alternate talk)

Zhuang Chen, Bar-Ilan University
A novel, unified even-like semantics for Mandarin gèng (alternate talk) (abstract)

Omri Amiraz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Not all scalar inferences are alike: The effect of existential presuppositions (abstract)

Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel and Silvia Silleresi, ZAS, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Milano-Bicocca
Strict readings of logophors and the LF of anaphoric dependencies (abstract)

Aviv Schoenfeld, Tel Aviv University
Direct kind predication and Transitivity (abstract) (poster)

15:40-16:20
Roni Katzir and Moshe E. Bar-Lev, Tel Aviv University
Communicative stability and the typology of logical connectives (abstract) (slides)

16:20-16:40 Coffee Break

16:40-17:20
Zarina Levy-Forsythe and Olga Kagan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Obligatory classifiers and the mass-count distinction: the case of Tashkent Uzbek (slides)

17:20-18:00
Kousani Banerjee, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
On the semantics of Multiple Wh-exclamatives in Bangla (abstract) (slides)

18:15 Conference reception

Thursday, October 20

10:00-10:40
Fabienne Martin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sehrang Joo, Sami Yousif, Frank Keil and Joshua Knobe, Yale University
Scaling agents via dimensions (abstract)

10:40-11:20
Giada Palmieri and Joost Zwarts, Utrecht University
On lexical reciprocity in Swahili (abstract)

11:20-11:50
Coffee Break

11:50-12:30
Noam Faust, Université Paris 8 CNRS SFL
Mojeño Trinitario syncope and stress in Strict CV metrics (abstract) (slides)

12:30-13:10
Aleksei Nazarov, Utrecht University and Brian Smith, Independent researcher
Generalization despite variation: French schwa with lexically indexed constraints (abstract) (slides)

13:10-14:30
Business meeting
Lunch break

14:30-15:30
Special session: Semitic Morphology
Invited Speaker: Outi Bat El Foux, Tel Aviv University
A tale of two clitics: Phonology in Biblical Hebrew morphosyntax (abstract)

15:30-16:10
Matthew Hewett, The University of Chicago
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach (abstract)

16:10-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-17:10
Yael Laure and Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bar-Ilan University
Processing modes and Representation of CVCVC words in Hebrew: Insights from an auditory rhyming task (abstract)

17:10-17:50
Lily Xu, UCLA
Nonce word evidence for paradigm structure in Egyptian Arabic verbs (abstract) (slides)