Harvard University, Harvard Hall 104
February 29 - March 2, 2008

Program

Friday February 29th

13.30	Welcome and scene-setting paper [audio]
	Andrew Nevins ( Harvard University )
Chair:	Giorgos Spathas (University of Utrecht/MIT)
14.00	Louisa Sadler ( University of Essex )
	'Indeterminacy, Complex Features and Underspecification' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: William Badecker ( Johns Hopkins University )
15.00	Coffee
15.15	Cynthia Zocca ( University of Connecticut )
	'Ellipsis and Markedness' [abstract, audio]
16.00	Break
16.15-	Orin Percus ( University of Nantes )
17.15	'Gender Features and Interpretation' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: Benjamin Spector ( Harvard University )

Saturday March 1st

9.00	Light Breakfast

Session 1

Chair:	Pritty Patel (MIT)
9.30	Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary, University of London )
	'Implicational markedness, feature markedness' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: Andrew Nevins ( Harvard University )
10.30	Katya Pertsova ( Tufts University )
	'Grounding the notions of 'competition' and 'defaults' in learning' [abstract, audio]
11.15	Coffee
Chair:	Zhanna Glushan (UConn)
11.30	Andrea Calabrese ( University of Connecticut )
	'On the shyness of the first person: investigations on markedness and underspecification in morphology' [audio]
	Commentator: Donca Steriade (MIT)
12.30	Lunch

Session 2

Chair:	Peter Jenks (Harvard)
14.00	Greville Corbett ( University of Surrey )
	'Canonical features and their interaction with Part of Speech categories' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: David Pesetsky (MIT)
15.00	Stephen Wechsler & Hyun-Jong Hahm ( University of Texas at Austin )
	'Target Number Markedness and Polite Plurals' [abstract, audio]
15.45	Break
Chair:	Clemens Mayr (Harvard)
16.00	Hedde Zeijlstra & Suzanne Aalberse ( University of Amsterdam )
	'The semantic (un)markedness of pronominal features' [abstract, audio]
16.45-	Michael Cysouw (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig )
17.45	'The interaction of person and number – a typologist's perspective' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: Jonathan Bobaljik ( University of Connecticut )

Sunday March 2nd

9.00	Light breakfast
Chair:	Luka Crnic (MIT)
9.30	Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
	‘On being ‘one’’ [audio]
	Commentator: Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin)
10.30	Alan Bale (MIT), Michael Gagnon (Concordia), Hrayr Khanjian (MIT)
	'Consequences of Morphological Markedness for Semantic Number' [abstract, audio]
11.15	Coffee
Chair:	Miloje Despic (UConn)
11.30	Angelika Kratzer (UMass)
	'Bound variable pronouns and agreement' [audio]
	Commentator: Sophia Malamud (Brandeis University)
12.30	Ken Safir ( Rutgers University )
	'Prospects for a presuppositional theory of antecedent agreement' [abstract, audio]
	Commentator: Irene Heim (MIT)
13.30	Lunch
14.00-	Open discussion
15.30