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Invited talks

   Chris Barker (University of California, San Diego)
            Metadefinite possessives   
   Vladimir Borschev (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences, and UMass, Amherst) and Barbara H. Partee (UMass, Amherst) 
        Genitives, Types, and Sorts
   Per Anker Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) and Carl Vikner (Copenhagen Business School)
            The genitive and lexical semantics
   Yury A. Lander (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
            (Ir)relevant possessors
   Ekaterina Rakhilina (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences)
             On Genitive and ‘Stability’: Evidence from Russian
  Gilbert Rappaport (University of Texas, Austin)
             The Syntax of Possessors in the Nominal Phrase: Drawing the Lines and Deriving the Forms
   Gianluca Storto (University of California, Los Angeles)
            Possessives in context



Contributed talks
  
   Maria Babyonyshev (Yale University)
            Deriving the Restrictions on Pronominal Complements of Nouns
   Sungeun Cho (Sogang University)
            The Structural Asymmetry between Possessors and Possessums
   Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Université Paris 7)
            Genitives and Determiners
   Albert Gatt (University of Malta)
            How many possessive constructions exist in Maltese?
   Daniel Hole (FU Berlin)
            Extra possessor arguments in Mandarin Chinese
   Angeliek van Hout
(University of Groningen) & Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
            Passivized Possessives
   Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University)
            Adnominal possession in the European languages: anchoring vs. non-anchoring relations
   Malvina Nissim (University of Edinburgh)
            A Uniform Semantics for Genitives and Bridging
   Uri Strauss (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
            Individual-denoting and Property-denoting Possessives
   Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva (University of South Carolina)
            The possessor that came home
   Helen Trugman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology/Tel-Aviv University)
           More puzzles of prenominal and predicate possessives

Poster/Alternates     [For poster presenters: For instructions/helpful tips, http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/FASL11/pages/posters.html.]

   Nino Amiridze (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics)
            On the 'aspect of' reading of the Georgian grammaticalized body-part tav- 'head'
   Misha Daniel (Moscow)
            From plural possessives to associative plurals. Sketching the grammaticalization path
   Olga Ljashevskaja (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences)
           Names of containers as a head of genitive construction
   Fabienne Martin (Université libre de Bruxelles)
            French verbal/adjectival genitives and construct states
   Ignazio M. Mirto (Università di Palermo)
            The Meronymic Construction
   Patrizia Pacioni (The University of Melbourne)
           The typology of possessive constructions and Cantonese   
   John Payne (University of Manchester)
            Determiners, determinatives and possessors: a typological and formal perspective   
   


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