Presentations

Complementizer Agreement Workshop: 17 October, 2012

08.00-08.45am Registration  
08.45-08.50am Welcome speech  
08.50-09.30am Helmut Weiss (Goethe Universität) The diachrony of complementizer agreement
09.30-10.10am Josef Bayer (Universität Konstanz) Demystifying Bavarian Complementizer Agreement
10.10-10.50am Eric Fuss (IDS Mannheim) C-agreement (in Bavarian): Feature inheritance or feature insertion?
10.50-11.10am Coffee Break  
11.10-11.50am Marc Richards (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) What (if anything) does Complementizer Agreement tell us about Feature Inheritance (and vice versa)?
11.50-12.30pm Ur Shlonsky (Université de Genève) Feature incorporation and criterial freezing
12.30-02.30pm Lunch Break  
02.30-03.10pm Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) Surprising agreements at C and T
03.10-03.50pm Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen) Agreement without Agree
03.50-04.30pm Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (HUBrussel) & How to void a Phase:
Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University) Anti-intervention effects with clitic doubling in Dutch dialects
04.30-04.50pm Coffee Break  
04.50-05.30pm Michael Diercks (Pomona College) Upwards-oriented Complementizer Agreement in Lubukusu
05.30-06.10pm Vicki Carstens (University of Missouri) Patterns of valuation for C-agreement in Bantu languages

Subjects Workshop: 18-19 October 2012

Thursday 18 October 2012
08.30-09.00 Registration  
09.00-09.10 Opening of Subjects Workshop
09.10-10.10 Invited: Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) Objecthood in Irish and the origin point of subjects
10.10-10.40 Coffee Break  
10.40-11.20 Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University) Nominal-Internal Subjects in Japanese
11.20-12.00 Naoyuki Akaso (Nagoya Gakuin University) Genitive Subject positions in Japanese
& Tomoko Haraguchi (Nanzan University)
12.00-02.00 Lunch Break  
02.00-02.40 Peter Herbeck (University of Wuppertal) Empty Categories and Inverse Ellipsis
02.40-03.20 Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute) Clause-typing by [2] - Flavors of main clause subjects
in Frisian, Limburgian, Flemish and Dutch
03.20-04.00 Karen Lahousse (KULeuven) Inversion in French: a cartographic approach
04.00-04.30 Coffee Break  
04.30-05.30 Invited: Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) Subjects and binding
Friday 19 October 2012
08.30-09.00 Registration  
09.00-10.00 Invited: Anna Cardinaletti On preverbal new information subjects
(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break  
10.30-11.10 Fabrizio Sorrisi (University of Padova) Verb Subject Agreement and Subject Positions
in Modern Standard Arabic
11.10-11.50 Sarah Courtney (Cornell University) T-agreement is not subject-oriented: information
structure, agreement, and non-subjects in TP
11.50-02.00 Lunch Break  
02.00-02.40 Fuyo Osawa (Hosei University) Subject: Where are you from?
02.40-03.20 Robert Cirillo (University of Amsterdam) The Effect of Negation on Subject Positions
03.20-03.50 Coffee Break  
03.50-04.50 Invited: Tim Stowell (UCLA) Adjectival Predicates and the Individual/Stage Level Distinction
04.50-05.00 Closing Remarks  

Alternate:                   

Jadwiga Bogucka (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan)          Coordinated subjects and Single Conjunct Agreement in Polish

 


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