Programme

Complementizer Agreement Workshop: 17 October, 2012

A downloadable version of the CA programme can be found here.

 

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 inflection
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

A downloadable version of the Subjects Workshop programme can be found here.

 

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
07.00pm       Social dinner at 't Vosken More information about the social dinner can be found on the conference registration page
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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