International Conference on Word Order and Scrambling

Windmill Hotel, St. Philips Plaza

Tucson, Arizona

April 7-9, 2000

Friday, April 7

8:30            Continental breakfast
9:15            Simin Karimi, Proceedings Editor and Co-organizer
9:20            Terry Langendoen, Editor of EXPLAINING LINGUISTICS
                series and Co-organizer
9:25            Tom Bever, Head, Department of Linguistics

                        Syntax of Scrambling (1)
                Chair: Andrew Barss, University of Arizona

9:30-10:20      DP Scrambling and VP Scrambling
                Anoop Mahajan, University of California at Los Angeles

10:20-11:10     Movement to the Left Periphery
                Katalin E. Kiss, Eotvus Lorand University, and Linguistic
                Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

11:10-12:00     Interaction of Scrambling and Case in Turkish
                Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University

12:00-2:00      Lunch break

                        Scrambling and Processing
                Chair: Janet Nicol, University of Arizona

2:00-2:50       Wh-movement versus Scrambling:  The Brain Makes a
                Difference

                Angela D. Friederici, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive
                Neuroscience, Leipzig (Germany), and Matthias Schlesewsky,
                Department of Linguistics, University of Postdam.

2:50-3:40       Scrambling and Processing:Dependencies, Complexity, and
                Constraints
                Irina A. Sekerina, Rutgers University

3:40-4:00       Coffee break

                        American Indian Languages
                Chair: Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona

4:00-4:50       Word Order Freedom in Tohono O'odham: An Instrumental
                Perspective.
                Richard Demers, University of Arizona, Mizuki Miyashita,
                University of Arizona, and Delbert Ortiz, University of
                Arizona

4:50-5:40       Topic and Focus Movement in Navajo
                Kenneth Hale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
                Eloise Jelinek University of Arizona; Mary Willie,
                University of Arizona

6:15            Sunset hike and dinner


Saturday, April 8

                        Syntax of Scrambling (2)
                Chair: Andrew Carnie, University of Arizona

9:30-10:20      Scrambling:  Options without Optionality
                Shigeru Miyagawa , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:20-11:10     Many Faces of Scrambling:  Evidence from Persian
                Simin Karimi, University of Arizona

11:10-12:00     Does Russian Scrambling Exist?
                John Frederick Bailyn, State University of New York at
                Stony Brook

12:00-2:00      Lunch break

                        Scrambling and Interpretation
                Chair:  Heidi Harley, University of Arizona

2:00-2:50       Bare Nominals and Scrambling
                Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University

2:50-3:40       Optionality, Optimality, and Interpretation
                Helen de Hoop, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

3:40-4:00       Coffee break

                        Scrambling and Acquisition
                Chair:  Cecile McKee, University of Arizona

4:00-4:50       Japanese Scrambling in Acquisition and Loss
                Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Japan

4:50-5:40       Non-canonical Word Order:  Topic and Focus in Adult and
                Child Tamil
                Vaijayanthi Sarma, Indian Institute of Technology, India

7:00            Dinner and reception


Sunday, April 9

8:00-9:30       *Scrambling* Breakfast at Terry Langendoen's

                                Round table
                        Moderator:  Terry Langendoen
10:00-12:00     Discussions and concluding remarks:  All presenters

This conference is supported by:
Blackwell Publishers and the following units of the University of Arizona: Office of Vice President for Research; Office of the Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona Foundation, Cognitive Science Program, Department of Linguistics, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Persian Program, Office of the Dean of the College of Humanities.