FRIDAY  MORNING (Rutgers Student Center MPR)

8:15-8:45

Registration/coffee

8:45-9:00

Opening









9:00-10:30

1. Syntax (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

2. Parasession on bilingualism and acquisition

(Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish: A Contemporary Account


Eva Juarros  (University of New York at Buffalo)

Interpretational deficit: evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish


Elena Valenzuela and Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (University of Western Ontario)

Parenthetical null topic constructions



Daniel Altshuler and Vivane Déprez (Rutgers University)

Processing of Grammatical Gender and Agreement in L2 Spanish


Nuria Sagarra (Pennsylvania State University)

Topicalization in European and Brazilian Portuguese



Mary Kato (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP)

and Eduardo Raposo (University of california, Santa Barbara)

Inversion in wh-questions in child Romance and child English: The roles of syntax and processing


Grant Goodall (University of California, San Diego)

10:30-11:00

Coffee










11:00-12:30

3. Sociolinguistics (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

4. Parasession on bilingualism and acquisition (syntax)

(Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

A Variationist Approach to Verb Types and Subject Position in Spanish.



Roberto Mayoral Hernández (University of Southern California)

Specificity, learners know: On the acquisition of clitic drop in L2 Spanish


Joyce Bruhn-Garavito*, Claudia Borgonovo**, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes***, Philippe Prévost**, Elena Valenzuela* (*U. Western Ontario, **U. Laval, ***U. of Plymouth)

Sociolinguistic Factors Conditioning the ordering of adverbial expressions in Spanish


Roberto Mayoral Hernández and Asier Alcázar (University of Southern California)

When learners know more than linguists: direct object clitics are not pronouns


Theres Grüter (McGill U.)

Performative verbs in Spanish monolingual and bilingual colonial court documents


Anna María Escobar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Developing L2 morphosyntax in TP and DP: A case study of French


Julia Herschensohn (U. of Washington) and Deborah Arteaga (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

12:30-1:45

Lunch



FRIDAY AFTERNOON (Rutgers Student Center MPR)


1:45-2:45

Context and grammar: Catalan rai
Enric Vallduví
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Rutgers Student Center MPR

2:45-3:00

Coffee








3:00-4:30

5.  Syntax (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

6. Semantics/Syntax (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

Expletives and the Rise of Number


Monique Dufresne (Queen’s University)

How do Usted in Spanish and Lei in Italian differ?


Hyun-Jong Hahm (University of Texas, Austin)

Grammar vs usage in the study of linguistic change


Nathalie Dion and Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

Macro event types and aspect shift in Spanish


Joshua Rodríguez (Northern Illinois University)

Old French Quirkies


Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa)

Tacit verbs and semi-direct speech in Iberian Spanish


Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS)

4:30-4:45

Break










4:45-6:15

7. Syntax/Semantics (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

8. Phonology (Rutgers Student Center MPR A)

Structure and Interpretation of Degree Correlatives



Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (Ohio State University)

Rhythmic constraints on the distribution of schwa in French


Marie-Hélène Côté (Université d'Ottawa)

Discontinuous Wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese.



Ana C.P. Bastos (University of Connecticut)

Accent without stress in Spanish


Marta Ortega-Llebaria and Stephen Meiners (University of Texas, Austin)

Syntax and Semantics of Split Questions




Karlos Arregi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Investigating phrasing levels in French : Phonology and phonetics of prenuclear and nuclear accents


Mariapaola D’Imperio*, Roxane Bertrand*, Albert Di Cristo** and Cristel Portes** (*Laboratoire Parole et Langage  **Université de Provence & Laboratoire Parole et Langage)