Nominalizations Workshop

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*Registration is free, but please pre-register by May 22, so that we know how many will attend (for coffee breaks and food).

Program

May 29

8.30-9.15

Registration and Coffee

9.15-9.30

Opening Remarks

9.30-10.10

Lisa Travis (McGill)
Nominals as a probe into argument structure and event structure

10.10-10.50

Keir Moulton (UCLA)
Nominalizing Clause-takers and Relativizing Clauses

10.50-11.20

Break

11.20-12.00

Alana Johns (University of Toronto)
Off-line morphology: Word-internal nominalization in Inuktitut

12.00-12.40

Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa)
Nominalization versus denominalization in Ojibwe

12.40-2.00

Lunch

2.00-2.40

Martina Wiltschko (UBC)
Patterns of Nominalizations in Blackfoot

2.40-3.20

Elizabeth Ritter (University of Calgary)
Nominalization, argument structure inheritance and the count/mass distinction

3.20-4.00

Heather Bliss (UBC)
Space and time in clausal nominalizations

4.00-4.30

Break

4.30-5.10

Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Verbal nouns and word order

5.10-5.50

Olga Kharytonava (University of Western Ontario)
Nominalization in Turkish: Noun Compounds

May 30

8.30-9.00

Registration and Coffee

9.00-9.40

Diane Massam (University of Toronto)
Nominalization in an ergative language

9.40-10.20

Solveiga Armoskaite (Carleton University)
Animacy and gender as derivational devices

10.20-10.50

Break

10.50-11.30

Andrea Wilhelm (University of Victoria)
Nominalization as modification

11.30-12.10

Leslie Saxon (University of Victoria)
The phonetics of nominalization in Tłįchǫ

12.10-12.50

Rose Marie Déchaine (UBC)
Shona nominalization strategies

12.50-1.00

Closing Remarks

1.00-2.30

Lunch