Presentations

 

Invited speakers

Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)                                                     Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause

Richard Larson (Stony Brook University)                             Root Transformations and Quantificational Structure

& Miyuki Sawada (National Kaohsiung Normal University)

Joseph Emonds (Tomas Bata University,                             Augmented Structure-Preservation and the Tensed S Constraint 

         Zlin & Masaryk University, Brno)                                                                 

 

            

 

Selected papers

Yoshio Endo (Kanda University of International Studies)         Interpersonal Modal Particles in non-Root Sentences:

                                                                                          Head Feature Movement

Norio Nasu (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)              The Distribution of Particles in Japanese and the Structure of CP  

Krzysztof Migdalski (Wroclaw University)                              Against a uniform treatment of second position effects

as force markers

Oleg Belyaev (Moscow State University)                               The placement of 2P clitics in Ossetic as a Main Clause Phenomenon 

Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia (Università di Firenze)           The status of complementizers in the left periphery

David Lightfoot (Georgetown University)                               Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies 

 Irene Franco (University of Leiden)                                       Don't front! A minimality account of embedded  topicalization 

                                                                                         and V2 in Scandinavian.  

Cecile de Cat (University of Leeds)                                       Towards an interface definition of Main Clause Phenomena    

Barbara Tomaszewicz (USC)                                                 The syntactic position of Slavic by and its effect on 

                                                                                         Main Clause Phenomena  

Vesselina Laskova (University of Venice)                               The relation between MCP, epistemic modality

  and illocutionary force  

 Werner Frey (ZAS, Berlin)                                                    About the syntactic integration of root-like   

                                                                                           adverbial clauses in German  

Mark de Vries (University of Groningen)                                  Parenthetical main clauses - or not? 

Marco Coniglio & Iulia Zegrean (University of Venice)              Splitting up Force: Evidence from discourse particles

 


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