Programme
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Wednesday 29 September 2010
12:30-1:15 Registration
1:15-1:30 Welcome
1:30-2:30 Invited speaker: Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause
2:30-2:50 Coffee
2:50-3:30 Yoshio Endo (Kanda University of International Studies) Interpersonal Modal Particles in non-Root Sentences:
3:30-4:10 Norio Nasu (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) The Distribution of Particles in Japanese and
4:10-4:40 Coffee
4:40-5:20 Krzysztof Migdalski (Wroclaw University) Against a uniform treatment of second position
5:20-6:00 Oleg Belyaev (Moscow State University) The placement of 2P clitics in Ossetic
Thursday 30 September 2010
9:30-10:30 Invited speakers: Richard Larson (Stony Brook University) Root Transformations and Quantificational Structure
& Miyuki Sawada (National Kaohsiung Normal University)
10:30-10:50 Coffee
10:50-11:30 Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia (Università di Firenze) The status of complementizers in the left periphery
11:30-12:10 Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus), Markus Pöchtrager The Apex Paradox: A technical issue
(Boğaziçi University), Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice), for the explanation of Main Clause Phenomena
Michael Schiffmann (Heidelberg University) & Neven Wenger
(Heidelberg University)
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:40 Marco Coniglio & Iulia Zegrean (University of Venice) Splitting up Force: evidence from discourse particles
2:40-3:20 David Lightfoot (Georgetown University) Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies
3:20-3:50 Coffee
3:50-4:30 Irene Franco (University of Leiden) Don't front! A minimality account of embedded
topicalization and V2 in Scandinavian.
4:30-5:10 Cecile de Cat (University of Leeds) Towards an interface definition of
7:00 Conference Dinner at Het Pand
Friday 1 October 2010
10:00-11:00 Invited speaker: Joseph Emonds Augmented Structure-Preservation
(Tomas Bata University, Zlin & Masaryk University, Brno) and the Tensed S Constraint
11:00-11:20 Coffee
11:20-11:50 Barbara Tomaszewicz (USC) The syntactic position of Slavic by and
its effect on Main Clause Phenomena
11:50-12:30 Vesselina Laskova (University of Venice) The relation between MCP, epistemic modality
12:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:10 Werner Frey (ZAS, Berlin) About the syntactic integration of root-like
3:10-3:50 Mark de Vries (University of Groningen) Parenthetical main clauses - or not?
Questions & information: rachel.nye(at)ugent.be and lobke.aelbrecht(at)ugent.be