The invited talks are 1 hour each (45-minute presentation + 15-minute
discussion). The contributed talks are 40 minutes each (30-minute presentation + 10-minute
discussion). A one-hour-and-20-minute poster session is scheduled on
the second day.
The program has undergone rather substantial revisions.
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[Babyonyshev] [Barker] [Borschev
& Partee] [Cho] [Daniel] [Dobrovie-Sorin] [Gatt] [Hole]
[van Hout & Roeper] [Jensen & Vikner]
[Koptjevskaja-Tamm] [Lander] [Ljashevskaja] [Martin] [Mirto]
[Nissim] [Pacioni] [Payne] [Rakhilina] [Rappaport] [Storto]
[Strauss] [Tasseva-Kurktchieva]
[Trugman]
DAY 1: MONDAY, MAY 6
GREEN ROOM, MULLINS CENTER (click here for directions)
Coffee, bagels, juice, etc.
9:00 Opening remarks
9:15-11:15 Invited
talks I. Chair: Gilbert
Rappaport.
Chris Barker (University of
California, San Diego)
Metadefinite possessives
Yury A. Lander (Institute of
Oriental Studies, Moscow)
(Ir)relevant possessors
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Invited talk II.
Chair: Vladimir Borschev.
Ekaterina Rakhilina (VINITI,
Russian Academy of Sciences)
On Genitive
and ‘Stability’: Evidence from Russian
The possessor that came home
Sungeun Cho (Sogang University)
The Structural Asymmetry between
Possessors and Possessums
3:05-3:20 Break
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
(Stockholm University)
Adnominal possession in
the European languages: anchoring vs. non-anchoring relations
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS,
Université Paris 7)
Genitives and Determiners
Helen Trugman (Holon Academic
Institute of Technology/Tel-Aviv University)
More puzzles of prenominal
and predicate possessives
DAY 2: TUESDAY, MAY 7
MATH LOUNGE, LEDERLE GRADUATE RESEARCH TOWER (16th floor) (click here for directions)
9:00-11:00 Invited
talks III. Chair: Chris Barker.
Per Anker Jensen (University of Southern
Denmark) and Carl Vikner (Copenhagen Business School)
The genitive and lexical
semantics
Gianluca Storto (University of California, Los
Angeles)
Possessives in context
[For poster presenters: For instructions and helpful tips, please refer to: 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
Uri Strauss (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
Individual-denoting and
Property-denoting Possessives
Albert Gatt (University of Malta)
How many possessive
constructions exist in Maltese?
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, MAY 8
MATH LOUNGE, LEDERLE GRADUATE RESEARCH TOWER (16th floor) (click here for directions)
9:00-10:20 Session D.
Chair: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm.
Daniel Hole (FU Berlin)
Extra possessor arguments in
Mandarin Chinese
Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen)
& Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Passivized Possessives
10:20-10:35 Break
10:35-11:55 Session E. Chair: Ekaterina Rakhilina.
Malvina Nissim (University of Edinburgh)
A Uniform Semantics for
Genitives and Bridging
Maria Babyonyshev (Yale
University)
Deriving the Restrictions
on Pronominal Complements of Nouns
11:55-12:20
Break
12:20-2:20 Invited talks
IV. Chair: Tom Roeper.
Gilbert Rappaport (University of
Texas, Austin)
The Syntax of Possessors in
the Nominal Phrase: Drawing the Lines and Deriving the Forms
Vladimir Borschev (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences, and
UMass, Amherst) and Barbara H. Partee (UMass,
Amherst)
Genitives, Types, and
Sorts
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