LINGUIST List 12.1574

Fri Jun 15 2001

Confs: Agreement in Argument Structure, Utrecht U

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1. Peter Ackema, Role of Agreement in Argument Structure, Utrecht U

Workshop on the Role of Agreement in Argument Structure

Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University
August 31 and September 1, 2001

Program

Friday, August 31

9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker: Mark Baker (Rutgers University) - Agreement
and dislocation in partially configurational languages

10.30 - 11.15 Phoevos Panagiotidis (Birkbeck College, London) - Parametric
 (non)configurationality without pro

11.45 - 12.30 Ildik� T�th (Pazmany P�ter Catholic University) - Licensing
and interpretation of non-referential null arbitrary arguments

12.30 - 13.15 Hans Bennis (Meertens Institute) - AGREE, pro and imperatives

14.30 - 15.15 Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) - Case, agreement,
pronoun incorporation and pro-drop in South Asian languages

15.15 - 16.00 Milan Rezac (University of Toronto) - Asymmetric agreement
and the realization of case

16.30 - 17.15 Henry Davis (University of British Columbia) - Is there a
pronominal argument parameter?

17.15 - 18.00 Jonathan David Bobaljik (McGill University) - On what it
means to be "rich"


Saturday, September 1

9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart) -
Uniform and non-uniform aspects of pro-drop languages

10.30 - 11.15 Olaf Koeneman (Groningen University) - Partial pro-drop in
Hebrew and Standard Finnish

11.45 - 12.30 Helmut Weiss (University of Regensburg) - AGR-in-COMP? An
explanation of (the emergence of) partial pro-drop

12.30 - 13.15 Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS/Paris 7 & University of
Poitiers) - Inflected complementizers and pro-drop in Germanic

14.30 - 15.15 Phil Branigan & Marguerite MacKenzie (Memorial University of
Newfoundland) - Adjunct-licensing and agreement in Innu-aim�n (Algonquian)

15.15 - 16.00 Rose-Marie D�chaine (University of British Columbia) -
Agreement as anaphora

16.30 - 17.30 Invited speaker: Eloise Jelinek (University of Arizona) -
Pronouns and argument hierarchies


Alternates:

Ingeborg van Gijn & Inge Zwitserlood (University of Amsterdam & Utrecht
University) - Agreement phenomena in a polysynthetic language: Nederlandse
Gebarentaal

For more information visit our website:
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm