LINGUIST List 21.3602 Sun Sep 12 2010 Confs: Syntax, Semantics/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Volker Gast, Peculiar Binding Configurations Message 1: Peculiar Binding Configurations Date: 09-Sep-2010 From: Volker Gast <volker.gastuni-jena.de> Subject: Peculiar Binding Configurations E-mail this message to a friend Peculiar Binding Configurations Short Title: PBC Date: 24-Sep-2010 - 25-Sep-2010 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Contact: Volker Gast Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.uni-jena.de/~mu65qev/pbc Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: Invited Speakers: - Eric Reuland (Utrecht) - Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (Paris/Surrey) - Uli Sauerland (Berlin) Over the past few decades, research into syntactic and semantic binding has established itself as an important tradition that has contributed elegant solutions to various problems of interpretation at the syntax-semantics interface. Few theoretical notions have a range of application as broad as that of binding. Domains of investigation that have benefited greatly from insights into variable binding include reflexivity and reciprocity and, quite generally, the interpretation of (empty or overt) pronominals; argument structure and voice; matters of tense, aspect and modality as explored in event semantics or possible-worlds semantics; quantification relating to arguments as well as adverbials; and the interpretation of information-structural categories such as focus and contrast. In all of these areas, a reasonable association of syntactic structures with semantic representations is hardly conceivable without the binding concept. It seems fair to say that binding is one of the most important theoretical concepts in linguistic analysis, and thus, by hypothesis, also a central principle in the architecture of human language. Friday, September 23 9:00 Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (Paris/Surrey): Binding Properties of Impersonal Human Pronouns in Generic and Episodic Contexts 10:00 Dagmar Schadler (Utrecht): Binding of Body-part Reflexives 10:40 Coffee break 11:00 Vadim Kimmelmann/Pavel Rudnev (Moscow): Breaking the Coreference Rule 11:40 Byron Ahn (UCLA): Syntactic Configurations of Emphatic Reflexives 12:30 Alice ter Meulen (Genève): Binding Focus Reflexives 13:10 Lunch break 14:30 Sandhya Sundaresan (Tromsø): Monstrous agreement: A Peculiar Binding Configuration in Tamil 15:10 Pritty Patel (MIT): Pronouns, Reflexives, and Why Kutchi Gujarati Binds Like Modern Greeka 15:50 Coffee break 16:10 György Rákosi (Debrecen): Locative Binding in Hungarian 16:50 Matthew Barros/Luis Vicente (Rutgers/Potsdam): Pronominal Reference in Multidomination Structures 17:30 Uli Sauerland (ZAS/Berlin): Positions or Properties: Memory Access and Binding Configurations Saturday, September 24 9:00 Volker Gast (Jena): Head-distant 'self' in a Hybrid Theory of Focus Interpretation 9:40 Schäfer, Martin (Jena): Binding and Anaphoric Islands: the Case of A N Compounds 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Eric Reuland (Utrecht): Puzzling Binding 11:50 Schäfer, Florian (Stuttgart): On Passives of Reflexive Verbs and Theories of Reflexivization 12:30 Lunch break 14:00 Natasha Ivlieva (MIT): Exceptional Binding in Russian 14:40 Isabelle Haïk (Caen): A Formal Analysis of Pronouns of Laziness 15:30 Coffee break 15:50 Johan Rooryck/Guido Van den Wygaerd (Leiden/Brussels): The Syntax of Spatial Anaphora 16:30 Michelangelo Falco (Pisa): Deterministic Mapping and Dependencies: an Interface Account of Weak(er) Crossover 17:10 Daniel Hole (Stuttgart): Free Datives and Knight Move Binding Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.