NB. Programme updated 21/03/2012
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Thursday March 22
08.45-09.15 coffee + registration
09.15-09.30 welcome/opening remarks
09.30-10.15 Dominique Sportiche (UCLA/ENS): Adjunct/argument asymmetries and relative clause types.
10.15-11.00 Carlo Cecchetto (Università di Milano Bicocca) and Caterina Donati (Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'): Relative structures (and other strong islands) reduced to relabeling.
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.15 Anna Roussou (University of Patras): Complements, relatives, and nominal properties.
12.15-14.00 lunch
14.00-14.45 Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze): Complement clauses as (free) relatives, complementizers as wh-pronouns: refining the picture.
14.45-15.30 Iliyana Krapova (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari) and Guglielmo Cinque (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari): “Clausal Complements” of Nouns as reduced relative clauses.
15.30-16.00 coffee
16.00-16.45 Hilda Koopman (UCLA): Noun phrases as relatives: the view from below.
Friday March 23
09.00-09.30 coffee
09.30-10.15 Liliane Haegeman (GIST, Ghent University): Evidence for the movement analysis of adverbial clauses.
10.15-11.00 Jason Zentz (Yale University): Movement in adverbial clauses: Evidence from Akɔɔse wh-agreement.
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.15 Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes) and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country): Relativizing time arguments .
12.15-14.00 lunch
14.00-14.45 Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) and Roumyana Pancheva (USC): Two superlative puzzles.
14.45-15.30 Barbara Tomaszewicz (USC): The morphosyntax of Polish (un)conditionals
15.30-15.40 closing remarks
15.40-16.00 publication meeting