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Below you will find the renewed program for the Antwerp Conference on the Syntax and Pragma-Semantics of the Noun Phrase from 10-12/febr 2000. Registration is still possible on the spot and costs 3500 Bfrs/3 days or 1250 Bfrs/conference day. Students pay 750 Bfrs/3 days or 400 Bfrs/conference day. Route descriptions and a city map of the centre of Antwerp is now available on http://rom-www.uia.ac.be/rom/nl/onderzoek/dpnp - ---------------------------------- FROM NP TO DP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMA-SEMANTICS OF NOUN PHRASES - ---------------------------------- ANTWERP, FEBRUARY 10-12, 2000 - ---------------------------------- PROGRAM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2000 08.00-09.00 Registration 09.00-09.15 Welcome 09.20-10.00 Invited speaker : Georges KLEIBER - Anaphore et possessif 10.05-10.35 Lucien KUPFERMAN - Pour une analyse de l'article d�fini quantifi� Enoch ABOH - DP Licensing and Snowballing Movement John PAYNE & Kersti B�RJARS - Functional Categories and Optimality in the Noun Phrase COFFEE 11.00-11.30 Pam MACDONALD - 'The' is a Place on Earth : Location ande Definiteness in English Paul BOUCHER - Word Order in French DPs Lilia SCH�RCKS - Determiner - Possessor Relation in the Bulgarian DP 11.35-12.05 Bart GEURTS - A Pragmatic Account of Specificity Judy B. BERNSTEIN - Variation in the Syntax of the Walloon Noun Phrase Larisa AVRAM & Martine COENE - Genitive / Dative Clitics as Last Resort 12.10-12.50 Invited speaker : Francis CORBLIN - Definitiness and the interpretation of genitive in French LUNCH 14.10-14.40 Veerle VAN GEENHOVEN - Bare Plurals, Bare Singulars and (Inherent) Narrow Scope Almerindo OJEDA - A Russellian Interpretation of Measure Nouns B�atrice LAMIROY - Possession inali�nable et grammaticalisation 14.45-15.15 Andr�e BORILLO - L'expression du temps et de l'aspect dans le groupe nominal Melita STAVROU - Measure Phrases, Classifiers and Indefiniteness in Pseudopartitive Constructions Artemis ALEXIADOU - On the Structure of Alienable and Inalienable Possessors 15.20-15.50 Cristina SCHMITT & Alan MUNN - A Unified Account of Argumental and Predicative Bare Nominal Syntax Norbert CORVER - DP-Internal (Dis)placement of Measure and Quantity Denoting Predicates Marleen VAN PETEGHEM & Katia PAYKIN - Adnominal and extranominal possessive structures in Russian COFFEE 16.15-16.45 Dalina KALLULLI - The Syntax and Semantics of Count Bare Singulars Roberto ZAMPARELLI - Definite Kinds Elena GAVRUSEVA - A Minimalist Approach to Parametric Differences in Possessor Extraction 16.50-17.20 Ariel COHEN - Bare Plurals and Suitability Jenny DOETJES & Johan ROORYCK - Quantity and Quality Agree Takae TSUJIOKA - Possessor Raising and Small v 17.25-18.05 Invited speaker : Hans KAMP - Definite, Indefinite and Quantificational NPs in Attitudinal Contexts RECEPTION FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2000 09.20-10.00 Invited speaker : Greg CARLSON - Weak indefinites 10.05-10.50 Invited speaker : Donka FARKAS - Varieties of Definites and Indefinites COFFEE 11.15-11.45 Susan M. POWERS & David LEBEAUX - Primitive Determiners and the Structure of Telegraphic Speech Alain KIHM - Gender as a Lexical Item Tabea IHSANE - A Typology of Possessive Modifiers 11.50-12.10 Thomas ROEPER & Ana T. P�REZ-LEROUX - Minimal Nominal Projections : Evidence from Acquisition Jan SCHROTEN - On the Natural Gender of Nouns Rita MANZINI & Leonardo SAVOIA - Kinship DPs : the Case of Italian Dialects 12.15-12.55 Invited speaker : Carmen DOBROVIE-SORIN - From DPs to NPs: a Bare Phrase Structure Account of Bare NPs LUNCH 14.15-14.55 Invited speaker : Alexander GROSU - An Alexandria-Quartett approch to TFRs. Attempting Stage Two 15.00-15.30 Alexandra CORNILESCU - The Interaction between Wh-Movement and Focus Keiko MUROMATSU - Specificity, Weak / Strong Distinction and Numeral Classifiers Lisa Lai-Shen CHENG - Possession in Cantonese and Mandarin Noun Phrases 15.35-16.05 Mitsuaki SHIMOJO - Matrixhood of Relative Clauses and Pragmatic Effect on So-called Extraction Phenomena Rose-Marie DESCHAINE & Martina WILTSCHKO - On Pro-Nouns and other 'Pronouns' Cornelia KRAUSE - On Possession and Inherent Case COFFEE 16.35-17.15 Invited speaker : Anne ZRIBI-HERTZ - On the Asymmetric but regular properties of French possessive DPs? 17.20-18.00 Invited speaker : Fred LANDMAN - Mismatches between predicative and argument interpretations of DPs and the adjectival theory of indefinite determiners BANQUET SATURDAY FEBR 12, 2000 09.00-9.40 Invited speaker: Brenda LACA - On the semantics of same and different 9.45-10.25 Invited speaker: Jacqueline GU�RON - Inalienable Possession and the interpretation of determiners COFFEE 10.50-11.20 Mila DIMITROVA-VULCHANOVA - Modification in the Balkan Nominal Expression : An Account of the (A)NA - AN Order Contrast Dani�le GODARD & Jacques JAYEZ - Le N fait et les objets abstraits Liliane HAEGEMAN - Two prenominal Possessors in West Flemish 11.25-11.55 Caroline HEYCOCK & Roberto ZAMPARELLI - Coordinated Bare Singular Definites Miriam ENGELHARDT - Properties as Arguments Maria M. MANOLIU - La pragma-s�mantique du d�monstratif postpos� 12.00-12.30 Vivian LIN - Determiner Sharing Lisa MATTHEWSON - Quantificational Determiners are not Determiners Walter DE MULDER - Les contextes des SN d�finis et d�monstratifs 12.35-13.15 Invited speaker : Giuseppe LONGOBARDI - How Comparative is Semantics? ALTERNATES (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER): Workshop on Possession Edith KAAN & Nadya VINOKUROVA - Resolving Possessive DP Ambiguities in Sakha ; Marleen VAN PETEGHEM & Katia PAYKIN - Structures possessives adnominales et extranominales en russe General session Maria ILIESCU - La pr�position roumaine cu : avec ou sans article? Petra SLEEMAN - Subnominal Gaps and the Role of TopP Satoshi TOMIOKA - The Cross-Linguistic Syntax and Semantics of Nouns and Pro-drop ParameterMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue