LINGUIST List 13.2471

Sat Sep 28 2002

Confs: Workshop on "Wh-Movement" -Leiden, Netherlands

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1. Corver, Norbert, WORKSHOP ON "Wh-Movement"

Workshop "ON WH-MOVEMENT"

We are happy to announce the program of the workshop "On Wh-movement",
jointly organized by the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics
(ULCL, Leiden University) and the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
(UiL-OTS, Utrecht University). The workshop will take place on
December 12-13 (Thursday-Friday) and will be preceded on Wednesday
(December 11) by a tutorial on Chomsky's 1977 paper "On WH-movement"
that appeared 25 years ago and was a major step in the development of
a general theory on Wh-movement processes.


PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11: 
Location: Leiden University; exact location to be announced on the
workshop websites (see below).

13.00 - 14.00	Registration for the workshop

14.00 - 17.00 	Tutorial by Maggie Browning (Princeton University)
		on Chomsky's 1977 article 'On Wh-movement'.
		Title: On Wh-movement. 


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 (WORKSHOP DAY 1)
Location: Leiden University; exact location to be announced on the
workshop websites (see below).

Themes (i) On wh-diagnostics
 (ii) On the nature of wh-movement

9.00 - 10.00 	Registration for the workshop

10.00 - 11.00	Luigi Rizzi (Universita' di Siena/Geneva)
		title talk:tba

11.00 - 11.15	Coffee break (and registration)

11.15 - 12.00	Heejeong Ko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
		The origin of 'why-in-situ'

12.00 -	12.45	Chris Reintges, Philip LeSourd, and Sandra Chung
		(U. of Leiden, Indiana U, and UC Santa Cruz)
		Movement, Wh-agreement, and apparent Wh-in-situ

12.45 - 14.00	Lunch

14.00 -	14.45	Ricardo Etxepare & Miriam Uribe-Etxebarria 
		(CNRS/LEHIA, EHU-UPV/LEHIA)
		Wh-Movement in Spanish: The Right Side of It

14.45 -	15.30	Brian Agbayani (California State University, Fresno)
		The Trouble with Wh-Subjects

15.30 - 16.00	Tea break

16.00 - 16.45	Caterina Donati (Universita' di Urbino)
		Deriving phrasal movement

16.45 - 17.45	Akira Watanabe (U. of Tokyo)
		The pied piper feature


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 (WORKSHOP DAY 2)

Location: Utrecht University; Drift 21 (name of the street +
	 number), Room 032.

Themes: (i) (Successive) Cyclicity
 	 (ii) Types of wh-constructions

9.30 - 10.00	Registration for the workshop

10.00 - 11.00	Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
		Conceptions of the Cycle

11.00 - 11.15	Coffee break

11.15 - 12.00	Arthur Stepanov (Universitaet Potsdam)
		Triggering successive cyclicity in wh-movement: 
		An 'Indirect
		Dependency' Solution

12.00 - 12.45	Balazs Suranyi (Utrecht University)
		Syntactic mechanisms and interpretation of
		wh-saturation in multiple
		wh-dependencies: Intra-linguistic variation in
		Hungarian

12.45 - 14.15	Lunch

14.15 - 15.15	Hans Bennis (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam)
		On binding and on wh-movement in relatives

15.15 - 15.30	tea break

15.30 - 16.15 	Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cologne/University 
		of Stuttgart)
		Interpretive properties of Multiple wh-fronting and the
		syntax of multiple wh-questions

16.15 - 17.15	David Adger (University of London) & Gilian Ramchand
		(University of Oxford)
		Relativization, agreement and locality

Buffet		(pre-registration required; see registration form)



Alternates:
1. Toru Ishii (Meiji University)
 On the proper treatment of relaxation of Intervention effects

2. Henrietta Yang (University of Texas at Austin)
 Partial movement and multiple spellout in Punjabi relative clauses



INFORMATION ABOUT HOTELS, TRAVELLING, REGISTRATION, et cetera:
Relevant information concerning hotels, travelling, registration, and
locations of the workshop is available on the following internet
sites.

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/movement/

http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm (click on "conferences
and workshops", and then on "workshop on wh-movement")


PREREGISTRATION
In order to help us manage the logistics, you are kindly requested to
preregister if you wish to attend the workshop and the tutorial. On
the website addresses given above, you will find an electronic
registration form. Please fill out this registration form and click on
"Send".

FEE:
Students	20 EUROS
Non-students	25 EUROS

Buffet on Friday, December 13: 20 EUROS (preregistration required)


E-MAIL ADDRESS: Urgent questions can be sent to:

w.h.movementlet.leidenuniv.nl

LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Lisa Cheng (ULCL, Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Norbert Corver (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)