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)