Date: 08-Mar-2010
From: Josep Quer <cgg20 upf.edu>
Subject: 20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
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20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
Short Title: CGG20
Date: 18-Mar-2010 - 20-Mar-2010
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Josep Quer
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://parles.upf.es/glif/pub/cgg20/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Syntax
Meeting Description:
The Colloquium on Generative Grammar is a conference organized every year since 1991 in a different university of the Iberian Peninsula where linguists from all over the world present and discuss current proposals on the study of the language faculty within the Generative Grammar framework. It hosts formal analyses in all subdomains of grammar and their interfaces.
The 20th edition will be hosted by GLiF (Grup de Lingüística Formal-URLING) at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Call for Participation:
Online registration and payment is now operative! Participants are kindly requested to register before the conference by filling in the online form at the conference website:
http://parles.upf.es/glif/pub/cgg20/
Updated Programme:
Thursday March 18 (Main Session)
9:00-09:45
Registration
9:45-10:00
Welcome
10:00-11:00
Invited Speaker: Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam), In Search of a Determiner: A View from 'Genuine' Bare Noun Languages
11:00-11:20
Coffee break
11:20-12:00
Reiko Vermeulen (University of Ghent), A Comparative Approach to the Syntax of Topics in Japanese and Korean
12:00-12:40
Lobke Aelbrecht (University of Ghent), VP Ellipsis and VP Topicalization: The Common Core
12:40-13:20
Hidehito Hoshi (Doshisha/Harvard University), Projections of Formal Features and Interface Conditions
13:20-14:50
Lunch break + Poster Session 1
14:50-15:30
Luis Vicente (University of Potsdam), Revisiting Spanish Retrospective Imperatives
15:30-16:10
Remus Gergel (University of Tübingen), How 'rather' is Structured: Consequences of a Diachronic Change at LF
16:10-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-17:10
Nora Boneh & Lea Nash, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & University of Paris 8), Getting High: the Case of French Non-core Datives
17:10-17:50
María Luisa Rivero & Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa), Variation in Slavic Imperfectives
18:00
Drinks
Friday March 19th
Thematic Session: Perspectives on the Interface between Information Structure and Phonology
9:15-10:15
Invited Speaker: Caroline Féry (University of Potsdam), Information Structure and Prosody in a Typological Perspective
10:15-10:55
M.Teresa Espinal & Pilar Prieto (CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona & ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University), Intonational Encoding of Double Negation in Catalan
10:55-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-11:55
Diane Lillo-Martin & Ronice Quadros (University of Connecticut & Federal University of Santa Catarina), Interfaces and WH-Questions in Sign Languages
11:55-12:55
Invited speaker: Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen) Prosody and the Non-Dominant Hand in Sign Language of the Netherlands
12:55-14:25
Lunch break + Poster Session 2
Main Session:
14:25-15:05
Panel: Generative Grammar in Iberia: 20 years Later. With João Costa (New University of Lisbon), Olga Fernández Soriano & Violeta Demonte (Autonomous University of Madrid, CSIC-CCHS), Maria Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona), Joan Mascaró (Autonomous University of Barcelona), and Vidal Valmala (University of the Basque Country).
15:05-15:45
Piotr Ceglowski (Adam Mickiewicz University), Derivational Mechanics of Extraction out of Determiner Phrases in Polish
15:45- 16:25
Benjamin Kratz (University of Frankfurt), The Internal Structure of Which-phrases
16:25-16:45
Coffee break
16:45-17:25
Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Rovira i Virgili University/Autonomous University of
Barcelona), Deverbal Adjectives Derived from Nouns in English and Romance
17:25-18:05
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University), Predication vs. Aboutness in Copy Raising
18:05
Business meeting
Evening: Conference dinner
Saturday March 20th (Main Session)
9:30-10:10
Maria Cabrera, Clàudia Pons-Moll & Francesc Torres-Tamarit (University of Barcelona & CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona), Left is More: Rhotic Metathesis in Algherese Catalan
10:10-10:50
Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati), Phonological Bias in the Learning of Opaque Segments in Vowel Harmony
10:50-11:30
Jie Ren, Liqun Gao & James L. Morgan (Brown University & Beijing Language and Culture University), Experimental Studies on Mandarin Speakers' Knowledge of the Sonority Sequencing Principle
11:30-11:50
Coffee break
11:50-12:30
Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University), Binding and Defective Domains: Principle A by Phase
12:30-13:10
Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam), One Way to Agree
13:10-14:40
Lunch break
14:40-15:20
Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati (University of Milano-Bicocca & University of Rome-La Sapienza), Heads, Labels and Relativization: Explaining Pseudorelatives
15.20-16.00 Francisco José Fernández Rubiera (University of Georgetown)
Clitics, Syntactic Edges and Finiteness: Post- and Preverbal Clitics in Asturian
16:00-16:20
Coffee break
16:20-17:00
William Haddican, Anders Holmberg & Nanna Haug-Hilton (University of York, University of Newcastle & University of Groningen), Object Movement (a)symmetries in Norwegian and the Split Probe Hypothesis
17:00-18:00
Invited speaker: João Costa (New University of Lisbon), Discourse-free Syntax
18:00-18:10
Closing
Poster Session 1:
Anne Breitbarth (University of Ghent), The Independence of Negative Concord and Jespersen's Cycle
Joan Borràs-Comes (Pompeu Fabra University), The Role of Pitch Range in Establishing Intonational Contrasts in Catalan
Violeta Demonte, Héctor Fernández-Alcalde & Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CCHS), Agreement Mismatches in Spanish and the Nature of Nominal Features
Yurena María Gutiérrez González & Pablo Damián Zdrojewski (Autonomous University of Barcelona & CONICET-National University of Comahue), Focus and Doubled DPs: Interactions and Intersections
Poster Session 2:
Eva Dekany (University of Tromsø, CASTL), K: Hidden and in Plain Sight. The Case of Hungarian Postpositions
Anna Bartra-Kaufmann (CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona), Complex Predicates in Old Romance and Grammaticalization Processes
Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro & Anna Gavarró (CLT, Autonomous Universityof Barcelona), Some Agrammatic Evidence for a Hierarchy of Functional Projections
Violeta Martínez-Paricio (University of Tromsø, CASTL), Spanish Liquid Neutralization beyond Sonority Sequencing
Stefan Keine (University of Leipzig), Switch-Reference as an Interface Conspiracy
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