LINGUIST List 21.4480 Mon Nov 08 2010 Confs: Romance, Syntax, General Linguistics/Brazil 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.     Francisco Ordóñez , Romania Nova. IV Message 1: Romania Nova. IV Date: 08-Nov-2010 From: Francisco Ordóñez <fordoneznotes.cc.sunysb.edu> Subject: Romania Nova. IV E-mail this message to a friend Romania Nova. IV Date: 24-Nov-2010 - 26-Nov-2010 Location: Campos de Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil Contact: Francisco Ordóñez Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.unicamp.br/iel/romanianova/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax Language Family(ies): Romance Meeting Description: The commission of 'Romania Nova' invites papers to its fourth workshop to be held at Campos de Jordão, São Paulo. The research commission of Romania nova is interested in promoting and creating a space for comparative studies of the Romance languages spoken in the Americas. Meeting program Programa da reunião/programa del taller Morning/manhã/mañana 24/11/2010 8:30-9:00 Jairo Nunes, USP: Circumventing Merge-over-Move in Adjunct Control Constructions: The Case of Portuguese 9:00-9:30 Carol Petersen, USP: Disguised Indicatives and Control Patterns of Subjunctive Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese 9:30-10:00 Marcello Modesto, USP: Inflected Infinitives in BP and the Structure of Nonfinite Complements 10:00-10:30 Coffee break and Registration 10:30-11:00 Marcos Eroni Pires, UNICAMP: A Sintaxe de Constituintes Locativos No Português Brasileiro: Restrição e Predicação 11:00-11:30 Juanito Avelar, UNICAMP: C-T Probes and Subject Positions in Brazilian Portuguese 11:30-12:00 Anabela Gonçalves U. Lisboa & Madalena Colaço, U. Lisboa : Constructions in Portuguese 24/11/2010 Afternoon/Tarde 14:00-14:30 Francisco Ordóñez, SUNY & Esthela Treviño, UAM: Objects and Clitics in Romance imp-SE: a Microparametric Perpective. 14:30-15:00 M.Teresa Espinal,UAB, & Ia Navarro,Un. Guanajuato: The Relevance of Clitic Incorporation in Romance Languages 15:00-15:30 Matilde Miguel, Anabela Gonçalves & Inês Duarte, University of Lisbon: Possessive and Personal Datives in EP and in BP 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break and Registration 16:00-16:30 Andrés Saab, Leiden/Comahue & Pablo Zdrojewski,UBA: Syntactically Inert Clitics: a Paradox Involving Clitic Doubling and its Resolution 16:30- 17:00 Cida Torres, USP: Talking about Null Indirect Object in Brazilian Portuguese Plenary: 18:00-19:00 Richard Kayne, NYU: Why are There no Directionality Parameters? 19:00-19:30 Commentator, Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge 25/11/2010 Morning/Manhã/Mañana 8:30-9:00 Esmeralda Negrão, USP &Evani Viotti,USP: Passive Constructions: a Contrastive study between Brazilian and Angolan Portuguese 9:00-9:30 Ilza Ribeiro,UFBA &Ruth Lopes, UNICAMP: The Structure of DPs in 19th century Afro-Brazilian Grammar and its Similarities to Creole Languages 9:30-10:00 Liliana Sanchez, Rutgers University: Functional Feature Mapping: Evidentiality and Aspect in Quechua-Spanish Bilinguals 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break. 10:30-11:00 Telmo Moia, FLUL: Defining Temporal Perspective Points in Non-sentential (Propositional) Structures with Temporal Adjuncts 11:00-11:30 Gabriela Resnik, Sarmiento: Recategorización de los Adjetivos en Español Rioplatense 11:30-12:00 Andrea Bohrn: Sobre la Morfología Rioplatense: el Vesre. 25/11/2010 Afternoon/Tarde 14:00-14:30 Eugenia Duarte, UFRJ: Weak Inflectional System and Topic Prominence: the Competition between Null and Overt Subjects 14:30-15:00 Humberto Soares da Silva, UFRJ: Sujeitos Nulos em Línguas Românicas e Riqueza Flexional 15:00-15:30 Pilar Barbosa, Un. do Minho: Partial Pro-drop as Null NP Anaphora 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-16:30 Sonia Cyrino, UNICAMP: Null Objects in Romania Nova 16:30-17:00 Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, UFPR & Elaine Grolla, USP: Obligatory WH in situ in Brazilian Portuguese 17:00- 17:30 Heloisa Salles: Causative Constructions in Brazilian Portuguese 17:30-18:00 Danniel Carvalho, UFBA: Licensing Syncretism in Brazilian Portuguese 20:30 Business Meeting/Reunião de Negócios/Reunión de Negocios 26/11/2010 Morning/Manhã/Mañana 8:30-9:00 Theresa Biberauer, U. Cambridge & -Sonia Cyrino, UNICAMP: The Limits of Jespersen's Cycle in Romania Nova 9:00-9:30 Renato Lacerda, USP: The Structure of Quantified Expressions and Quantifier Floating in Brazilian Portuguese 9:30-10:00 Inês Duarte, Ana Lúcia Santos, Nélia Alexandre, FLUL: The Nature of Purpose Relatives: Crosslinguistic and Acquisition Evidence 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 Mary Kato, UNICAMP, & Carlos Mioto, UFSC: Pseudo-clefts and Semi-clefts in Portuguese and American Spanish 11:00-11:30 Bruna Karla Pereira, UFMG: The Functional Architecture of CP: a Unified Analysis of Brazilian Portuguese 'lá' 11:30-12:00 Paulo Medeiros: What If it doesn´t match? Free Relatives and Matching Effects in Brazilian Portuguese Plenary: 13:30-14:30 José Camacho, Rutgers University: The Null Subject Parameter Revisited. 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