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Organizing Committee:
Leslie Saxon, Andrea Wilhelm, and
Martha McGinnis (chair)

Student organizer: Jennifer Lancaster

 

Programme (Click Title for Abstract)

All presentations held in the Harry Hickman building, Room 110.

8:45-9:15

Registration and breakfast

9:15-9:30

Welcome !

9:30-10:00

Diane Massam, University of Toronto

Missing gaps in locative and instrumental relative clauses

10:00-10:30

Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario

Relative structures in Malagasy

10:30-11:45

Coffee break and poster session (see list below)

11:45-12:15

Sara Johansson, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

On Algonquian relative clause constructions

12:15-12:45

Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa

Relative clauses in Ojibwe and Algonquin

12:45-2:00

Lunch (provided)

2:00-2:30

Andrés Pablo Salanova, University of Ottawa

Mẽbengokre relative clauses as nominalizations

2:30-3:00

Edith Aldridge, University of Washington

Object relative clauses in Archaic Chinese

3:00-3:30

Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser University

Relative clauses in Korean

3:30-3:45

Coffee break

3:45-4:15

John Lyon, University of British Columbia

Okanagan relatives and oblique marking: Questions for a movement analysis

4:15-4:45

Karsten Koch, University of Calgary

Focus and relativization: Head-final relatives in Thompson Salish

4:45-5:15

Henry Davis, University of British Columbia

WH-Relatives in Interior Tsimshianic

6:30-9:30

Dinner party (at Martha’s house)

8:45-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-9:30

Martina Wiltschko, University of British Columbia

What does it take to host a relative?

9:30-10:00

Kenji Oda, University of Toronto

Headless relative construction in Irish: Evidence for grammaticalized maximalizer

10:00-10:30

Barbara Citko, University of Washington

Types of appositive relative clauses

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-11:15

Andrea Wilhelm, University of Victoria

Relative clauses in Dëne Sułiné

11:15-11:45

Leslie Saxon, University of Victoria

Relative clauses inside and out: A study of Tłicho

11:45-12:15

Overview and discussion

12:15-1:15

Lunch (provided)


Jill Duffield, University of Colorado

Subject-verb agreement in English relative clauses from a psycholinguistic perspective: Differentiating between syntactic theories using relative clause data

Yi-An Lin, Hsuan Chuang University

Hakka Ge-marked modification structures: A full-fledged relative clause analysis

Luo Shan, University of Victoria

An analysis of Last Resort Theory with Cantonese resumptive pronouns

Christine Sheil, University of California, Berkeley

Scottish Gaelic prepositional relatives: The problem of inflection

Tammy Stark, University of California, Berkeley

Relativization in Omagua

Adam Steffanick, University of Victoria

Understanding Japanese relative clauses as a second-language learner

Nicholas Welch, University of Calgary

Relatives in disguise: Attributive adjectives in Tłicho Yatiì