Wednesday June 4

9:00

Registration and coffee

10:00

Welcome

10:10-10:50

Adriana Belletti (Università di Siena): "Voices: the shared mechanisms of passive, causative and passive in the causative, with some evidence from acquisition"

10:50-11:20

Coffee

11:20-12:00

Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University): "Working memory and syntactic comprehension"

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:40

Cornelia Hamann (Universität Oldenburg): "Intervention effects in the acquisition of relative clauses - investigated cross-linguistically and with different experimental methods"

2:40-3:20

Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano Bicocca): "Clitic production in L2 immigrant children and in children with SLI" (joint work with Maria Vender, Maria Garaffa and Antonella Sorace)

3:20-3:50

Coffee

3:50-4:30

Valentina Bianchi (Università di Siena): "Subject positions in English vs. Italian: three asymmetries"

4:30-5:10

Elisa Di Domenico (Università per Stranieri di Perugia): "Discovering morphosyntactic properties in L2A: on the English ’s morpheme"

Thursday June 5

9:00

Registration/Coffee

9:30-10:10

Carlo Cecchetto (Università di Milano Bicocca): "Labels, intervention and root phenomena" (joint work with Caterina Donati)

10:10-10:50

Günther Grewendorf and Erich Groat (Universität Frankfurt): "Labeling free relatives: the complexity problem"

10:50-11:20

Coffee

11:20-12:00

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard): "On the difference between Italian and English factives"

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:40

Ciro Greco (Ghent University): "Criterial subjects, intervention effects and the shape of A'-structures"

2:40-3:20

Dong-yi Lin (Ghent University): "A cartographic approach to adverbials in Kavalan: adverbial verbs and restructuring"

3:20-4:00

Trang Phan Thi Huyen (Ghent University): "The syntax of Tense and Aspect in Vietnamese"

4:00-4:30

Coffee

4:30-5:10

Dominique Sportiche (UCLA/ENS): tba

Friday June 6

9:00

Registration/Coffee

9:30-10:10

Denis Delfitto (Università di Verona): "Some ideas on the syntax and logical form of (scalar) exclamatives" (joint work with Gaetano Fiorin)

10:10-10:50

Ur Shlonsky (Université de Genève): "Hebrew null subjects and topicalisation"

10:50-11:20

Coffee

11:20-12:00

Karen Lahousse (KULeuven): "A case of focal adverb preposing in French"

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:40

Michal Starke (University of Tromsø): "Pronouns"

2:40-3:20

Luigi Rizzi (Université de Genève): "Notes on labeling and subjects"

3:20-3:30

Closing remarks