Program

Thursday June 4, 2015 – Room 6215
9:00 9:30 Registration
9:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Manfred Sailer Possessive (Non-)Alternations in Idioms
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10:30 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 11:40 Julie Fadlon, Julia Horvath, Tal Siloni & Kenneth Wexler The acquisition of idioms: stages and theoretical implications
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11:40 12:20 Sara Beck & Andrea Weber In the process of understanding: activation of literal and figurative meaning in idioms by native and nonnative listeners
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12:20 14:20 Lunch Break
14:20 15:00 Will Nediger A nanosyntax analysis of idioms
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15:00 15:40 Jeffrey Punske & Megan Stone Inner aspect and the verbal typology of idioms
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15:40 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 16:40 Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati Quattro passi in the NP structure
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16:40 17:40 Invited speaker: Christiane D. Fellbaum Is there a “grammar of idioms”?
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Friday June 5, 2015 – Room 6215
9:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Louise McNally Idioms are not so compositionally special
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10:30 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 11:40 Megan Stone Systematic flexibility in verb-object idioms
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11:40 12:20 Brent Woo Breaking idioms with right node raising
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12:20 14:20 Lunch Break
14:20 15:00 Julia Horvath & Tal Siloni Idioms: the type-sensitive storage model
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15:00 15:40 Xavier Villalba & M. Teresa Espinal Definite feminine clitics and telicity in idioms
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15:40 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 16:40 Leah S. Bauke Content matching in idioms and compounds: a comparative analysis
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16:40 17:20 Artemis Alexiadou & Gianina Iordachioaia Idiomaticity and compositionality in deverbal compounds
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