Recent Student Accomplishments (2008-2009 Academic Year)

Despić, Miloje. 2009. On the Structure of the Serbo-Croatian Noun Phrase – Evidence from Binding. In Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 17(FASL 17), the Yale Meeting.

Runić, Jelena. 2008. The acquisition of the location of adjectives in the Romanian DP by Serbian speakers. In Proceeding of the University of  Novi Sad Workshop on Generative Syntax 1:97-103.

Runić, Jelena. 2008. Atribut ili apozicija? [An attribute or an apposition?] In: Tokovi u savremenoj romanistici [Current issues in contemporary Romance studies], Novaković, J. (ed), Filološki fakultet, Društvo za kulturnu saradnju Srbija-Francuska: Beograd, 317-331.

Vaxman, Alexandre L. 2008. Clusters and the onset. In Blaho, S., C. Constantinescu & E. Schoorlemmer (eds.), In Proceedings of Console XV. 341-355.

Buesa García, Carlos. To appear. The Interaction between Locality and the Subject-Gap Restriction in Spanish Questions. In Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistics Society 39.

Cheng, Hsu-Te Johnny. To appear. Right Node Raising: Some Perspectives from Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21.

Despić, Miloje. To appear. On two types of pronouns and the so-called ‘movement to D’ in Serbo-Croatian. In Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society 39(NELS 39), Cornell University, Ithaca.

Despić, Miloje and Yael Sharvit. To appear. Some “Non-Intersective” Adjectives are Genuinely Noun-Taking. In Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society 39 (NELS 39), Cornell University, Ithaca.

Fitzgibbons, Natalia V. To appear. The Interpretation of Plural Superlatives. UConn Working Papers in Linguistics

Hsieh, I.-T. C. to appear. Even-focus and VP-Fronting in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21.

Hsieh, I.-T. C. to appear. On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Because-Sentences. In the proceedings of the 10th Symsposium on Logic and Language. 

Kuo, Pei-Jung and Yi-An Lin. To Appear. Possessor Raising, Resumptive Pronouns, and Phases. In Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS39)

Kuo, Pei-Jung. In Preparation. Differential Object Marking in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS45)

Kuo, Pei-Jung. In Preparation. Possessor Raising and BA Construction. In Proceedings of North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21.

Takahashi, Masahiko. To appear. Case-valuation, phasehood, and nominative/accusative conversion in Japanese. In Proceedings of 39th Conference of the North-Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 39). Amherst: GLSA, University of Massachusetts.

Takahashi, Masahiko and Misako Hatayama. To appear. Acquisition of Japanese passives revisited: Children understand long passives. In Yukio Otsu (ed.), Proceedings of 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hitsuzi Publishers.

Tieu, Lyn Shan. To appear. Transfer effects in the production of non-referential verb phrases by heritage speakers of Chinese. In Proceedings of the 3rd Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA-3).

Tieu, Lyn Shan. To appear. Verb copying in Chinese: Standard vs. sideward movement. In Proceedings of North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21.

Villa-García, Julio. To appear. On the Acquisition of Preverbal and Postverbal Subjects in Spanish and Grammatical Conservatism. To appear in UCONN Working Papers in Linguistics. 

Zocca, Cynthia and Jonathan Bobaljik. In preparation. Gender Markedness – The Anatomy of a Counter-Example, draft at http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000732

Buesa García, Carlos. 2008. The Interaction between Locality and the Subject-Gap Restriction in Spanish Questions. Presented at North Eastern Linguistics Society 39, Cornell University, NY. November 8th.

Cheng, Hsu-Te Johnny. 2009. Right Node Raising: Some Perspectives from Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented in North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21, Bryant University. 

Despić, Miloje. 2009. On Markedness and Marked Features in Serbian. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18 (FASL 18), Cornell University, Ithaca, May 15-17, 2009.

Hsieh, I.-T. C. 2009. On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Causal Sentences.  Paper presented in Conference on Semantics and Modelisation 7, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France. 

Hsieh, I-.T. C. 2009.  Even-focus and VP-Fronting in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented in North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics 21, Bryant University.   

Hsieh, I-T. C. 2009. On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Because-Sentences. Paper presented in the 10th Symsposium on Logic and Language, Balatonszemes , Hungary.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2009. Differential Object Marking in Mandarin Chinese. Paper to be presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS45), Chicago, April 17, 2009.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2009. Affectedness and Possessor Raising in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 83th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 10, 2009.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2009. Possessor Raising and BA Construction. Presented at the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bryant University, June 6.

Otaki, Koichi, and Noriaki Yusa. 2009. The sloppy-identity interpretaion in child Japanese: Its acquisition and implications. Paper presented at Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics 2009, Keio University.

Otaki, Koichi. 2009. The syntax-lexicon interface in the acquisition of English comparative morphology. Poster presented at Mind-Context Divide Workshop, University of Iowa.

Runić, Jelena. 2009. Tutoring Chinese L1 Writers: Common Problems and Solutions. 25th Annual Conference of the Northeast Writing Centers Association (NEWCA), University of Hartford, West Hartford, April 4.

Runić, Jelena. 2009. The Effect of Explicit Grammar Instruction on the Academic Writing of Chinese L1 Writers. Fourth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing. University of Connecticut. Storrs, March 27. 

Takahashi, Masahiko and Misako Hatayama. 2009. Acquisition of Japanese passives revisited: Children understand long passives. Poster presented at 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics.

Tieu, Lyn Shan. 2009. Verb copying in Chinese: Standard vs. sideward movement. Presented at the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bryant University, June 6.

Villa-García, Julio. 2009. On Anomalous Subject-Verb Agreement in Spanish. Paper presented at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-39), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 27 March 2009.

Runić, Jelena. 2009. Tutoring English Grammar to Chinese L1 Writers: Tips on Overcoming Most Persistent Grammatical Errors. Writing Center, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 4.  

Runić, Jelena. 2009. Understanding Chinese Student Writers: Implications for Tutoring and Teaching. Spring 2009 Mini-Seminars Approaches to Teaching the W Course, Faculty Workshop, Writing Center, Institute for Teaching and Learning University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 18.  

Runić, Jelena. 2009. ESL Challenges: What to Do and Where to Go. Freshman  English 1004 Writing Orientation, May 13. [with Mary Isbell].

Runić, Jelena. 2009. On (Im)possible Clitic Clusters. Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, June 22. [by invitation]. 

Tieu, Lyn Shan. 2009. Verb copying in Chinese: A unified analysis. Presented at the East Coast Workshop in Syntax (ECO5), University of Maryland, April 4.

Tieu, Lyn Shan. 2009. There isn't any until there's not any. Presented at the UConn, UMass, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW), University of Connecticut, May 2.

Villa-García, Julio, William Snyder, and José Riqueros-Morante. 2009. On the acquisition of subject expression in a no-longer-null-subject language: the case of Puerto Rican Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW). Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, 2 May 2009.

Villa-García, Julio. 2008. Mamá, where do you want me to put my subjects?  I bet I'll get 'em right! On the Acquisition of Overt Subjects in Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW). Smith College, Northampton, Mass., USA, 6 December 2008. 

Zocca, Cynthia Levart, and Julio Villa-García. 2009. ESL Writing Situations. Writing Center Reorientation, Writing Center, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA 23 January 2009.

Despić, Miloje. Fellow, Open Society Institute (2008-2009)

Despić, Miloje. Fellow, Outstanding Scholar Program Fellowship, Uconn (2008-2009) 

Runić, Jelena. Outstanding Scholar Fellowship. Uconn (2008-2009) 

Villa-García, Julio. 2008-2009. “la Caixa” Full Graduate Fellowship.

Buesa García, Carlos. Member of the Budget Committee for the conference Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA) 3, September 4-6, 2008.

Despić, Miloje. Reviewing: January 2009. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics (Executive Editor: Susi Wurmbrand).

Despić, Miloje. Reviewing: January 2009. Morphology/Yearbook of Morphology (Series Editor: Geert Booij).

Despić, Miloje. The organizer/representative for ECO5 from the University of Connecticut Department. 

Runić, Jelena. 2009. Organizer of a guest lecture given by Christopher LaTerza (University of Maryland) & Ivana Mitrović (Stony Brook University), Argument Reciprocal in Serbian. Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, June 22. [with Department of Linguistics, University of Belgrade]. 

Vaxman, Alexandre L. Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. Online at http://www.sole.leidenuniv.nl 

Villa-García, Julio. 2009. Syntax session chair at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-39), University of Arizona, Tucson. 28 March 2009.