LINGUIST List 12.2715

Wed Oct 31 2001

Confs: Romance Ling, University of Amsterdam

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. J. Quer, Going Romance 2001

PROGRAM

GOING ROMANCE 2001

Fifteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics

Universiteit van Amsterdam, 6 - 8 December 2001

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS (UiL OTS)


Thursday 6 December

Location: P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam
Room: 104
Registration fee: on site, HFL 80 (including workshop and lunch on Thursday
and Friday)

 9.15-9.30
	Opening: Speaker TBA
 9.30-10.30
 Prof. Luigi Rizzi (Universit� di Siena), invited speaker
 Title TBA
 10.30-11.10
	Dorian Roehrs (Indiana University) & Marie Labelle (University 
 du Quebec Montreal)
	The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-split CP

 11.10-11.30
	coffee & tea break

 11.30-12.10
 Sandra Paoli (University of Manchester; University of Padua)
	Mapping out the sentence: Evidence from North-western Italian Varieties
 12.10-12.50
 Andrea Moro (University H. San Raffaele, Milano)
	Notes on Vocative Case: a case study in clause structure

 12.50-14.15 lunch

 14.15-14.55
 Luis Alonso-Ovalle (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
	Spanish Of-clauses
 14.55-15.35
 Claudia Borgonovo (University Laval)
	Negation and mood

 15.35-16.00
	coffee & tea break
 
16.00-16.40
	Mary Aizawa Kato (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP))
	Null Objects, Null Resumptives and VP Ellipsis in European and 
 Brazilian Portuguese

 16.40-17.40
 Prof. Karen Zagona (University of Washington), invited speaker
 Complement Clause Tenses and the Notion of 'Temporal Path'

18.00-19.00
	Drinks


Friday 7 December

Location: P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam
Room: 104

 9.30-10.30
 Prof. Jo�o Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), invited speaker
 Null vs. Overt Spec,TP in European Portuguese
 10.30-11.10
 Karen Lahousse (K.U. Leuven; University Paris-8)
	Stylistic inversion: how simple can it be ?

 11.10-11.30
 coffee & tea break

 11.30-12.10
 Edward G�bbel (Universit�t T�bingen)
	Prosodically Conditioned Word Order Variation in Romanian
 12.10-12.50
	Daniela Isac (Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al)
	Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: a Syntactic Distinction 

 12.50-14.15
 lunch

 14.15-14.55
	Judith Meinschaefer (Universit�t Konstanz)
	Argument realization in French psych verb nominalizations. A view from
lexical semantics 
 14.55-15.35
	Monique Dufresne (UQAM; Queen's University) & Fernande Dupuis (UQAM)
	On the consequence of the grammaticalisation of the aspect in French 

15.35-16.00
 coffee & tea break

16.00-16.40
	Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon)
	Deficient pronouns and linguistic change in Portuguese and Spanish

 16.40-17.40
 Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University), invited speaker
	Partitives and Bare Plurals in French
 
 18.30-22.00
 Dinner

Alternates :
1. Cecilia Poletto (CNR Padova) & Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University)
	The left periphery as a window on discourse structure. A case study from
Central Rhaetoromance
2. Paul Law (Freie Universit�t, Berlin)
	Past participle agreement with pronominal clitics and auxiliary selection
in Italian and French
3. Cecilia Goria (University of Manchester)
	Combining the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory: the case of
Subject Clitics in Piedmontese


Saturday 8 December: Workshop on Determiners (see seperate program). This
workshop is organized in collaboration with the French CNRS (PICS project
"S�mantique formelle et donn�es du fran�ais").

Organizing Committee:
Frank Drijkoningen (Universiteit Utrecht - UiL OTS), Denis Delfitto
(Universiteit Utrecht - UiL OTS), Aafke Hulk (Universiteit van Amsterdam -
ACLC), Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (Universiteit Groningen), Josep Quer
(Universiteit van Amsterdam - ACLC), Petra Sleeman (Universiteit van
Amsterdam - ACLC), Els Verheugd (Universiteit van Amsterdam - ACLC).

Acknowledgements:
The organizers gratefully acknowledge financial support from:
ACLC, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Amsterdam
KNAW, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
NWO, the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research, Den Haag
UiL-OTS, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS, Utrecht

Information:
Going Romance 2001
Department of French, University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-5252610
Fax: +31-20-5254429
Email: going.romancehum.uva.nl

For further information:
http://home.hum.uva.nl/oz/goingromance


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Josep Quer

Romaanse Taalkunde/Spaans
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
P.C. Hoofthuis, k. 311
Spuistraat 134
NL-1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Phone: +31.20.5254613
Fax: +31.20.5254429
E-mail: j.querhum.uva.nl


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