LINGUIST List 22.3396 Sun Aug 28 2011 Confs: Syntax, General Linguistics/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Lilia Schürcks , Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? Message 1: Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? Date: 27-Aug-2011 From: Lilia Schürcks <lschuercuni-potsdam.de> Subject: Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? E-mail this message to a friend Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? Short Title: MinWork Date: 03-Oct-2011 - 06-Oct-2011 Location: Potsdam, Germany Contact: Lilia Schuercks, Peter Kosta, Steven Franks Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/wsmp Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: Keynote Speakers: Marcel den Dikken Norbert Hornstein Richard Kayne Jairo Nunes Uli Sauerland Anna Maria di Sciullo Juan Uriagereka The Minimalist Program is a trend in recent generative syntax which subjects to critical scrutiny – and, if possible, eliminates – all constructs that are not virtually conceptually necessary. Since the minimal task of syntax is to mediate between form and meaning, the question is to what extent all aspects of our model of syntax derive from the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually essential interfaces with form and meaning. More generally, one can ask about the overall architecture of such a grammar: What levels of representation does a viable minimalist grammar need to have?; How are syntactic representations constructed?; and How are these representations interpreted at the interfaces? The purpose of the proposed workshop is to bring together scholars concerned with these broader issues, but who are also engaged in providing detailed analysis to specific linguistic problems and who work on a variety of languages, in order to explore new ways of understanding the organization of grammar and the workings of language. Conference Program Monday, October, 3rd Conference Venue: Campus Neues Palais, House 12, 2nd floor, room ‘Obere Mensa’ 9.00 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.30 Opening Addresses Chancellor of the University of Potsdam, Dr. Thomas Grünewald Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Prof. Dr. Johann Hafner Dr. Lilia Schürcks (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) 10.30 – 11.30 Invited talk: On Feature Inheritance Marcel den Dikken (The City University of New York) 11.30 – 12.15 Forum Discussion Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 12.15 – 13.30 Lunch Break 13.30 – 14.00 Roger Martin (Yokohama National University)/Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland) On the Nature of Chains in Minimalism 14.00 – 14.30 Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University) Feature-based Binding in the Minimalist Framework 14.30 – 15.00 Ángel J. Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Labels and Anchors 15.00 – 15.30 Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam) On the Uninterpretability of Interpretable Features 15.30 – 16.10 Discussion 16.10 – 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 – 17.00 Naoyuki Akaso (Nagoya Gakuin University)/Tomoko Haraguchi (Nanzan University) Adverbs and Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese Relative Clauses 17.00 – 17.30 Lena Baunaz (University of Geneva) How to Deal with Dependencies? Look in More Details at your Complementizers! 17.30 – 18.00 Toru Ishii (Meiji University/MIT) Long-Distance Passives and the Major Subject Construction in Japanese 18.00 – 18.30 Discussion Tuesday, October, 4th Conference Venue: Campus Neues Palais, House 12, 2nd floor, room ‘Obere Mensa’ 9.30 – 10.30 Invited talk: Basic Operations: A Minimalist Strategy? Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland) 10.30 – 11.15 Forum Discussion Manfred Bierwisch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.00 Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut) The Merge Condition: A Syntactic Approach to Selection 12.00 – 12.30 Mihaela Marchis (Hamburg Universität) Minimal Link Constraint Violations: Move vs. Agree 12.30 – 13.00 Alexandra Motut/Kenji Oda (University of Toronto) What Do we Mean by ‘Local’?: An Expanded Search Domain Unifying Merge and Move 13.00 – 13.30 Discussion 13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 – 15.30 Invited talk: Some Thoughts on Syntax in 2011 Richard Kayne (New York University) 15.30 – 16.15 Forum Discussion Luka Szucsich (Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin) 16.15 – 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 – 17.00 Michael Diercks (Pomona College)/Marjo van Koppen (University of Utrecht)/Michael Putnam (Penn State University) The Directionality of Agree: Can a Universal be Established? 17.00 – 17.30 Francesco Grande (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore de Milano/Università di Pisa) Antisymmetric Predicate Inversion in the Arabic DP: Deriving XP-Raising and Case 17.30 – 18.00 Alex Drummond (Durham University) Single Output Syntax 18.00 – 18.30 Discussion Wednesday, October, 5th Conference Venue: Campus Neues Palais, House 12, 2nd floor, room ‘Obere Mensa’ 9.30 – 10.30 Invited talk: Edge Features and Adjunct Control Jairo Nunes (University of Sao Paulo) 10.30 – 11.15 Forum Discussion Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin) 11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.30 Invited talk: Sentence Embedding within Biolinguistics Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) 12.30 – 13.15 Forum Discussion Peter Kosta (Universität Potsdam) 13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 – 15.00 Andreas Trotzke/Markus Bader (Universität Konstanz) Performance-Grammar Correspondence and the Minimalist Program: The Case of Multiple Center-Embedding 15.00 – 15.30 Teodora Radeva-Bork (University of Vienna) Computations at the Interfaces in Child Grammar: Evidence from Bulgarian 15.30 – 16.00 Scott C. Thomas (Alexandria, Virginia) Significant Parameterizations Can Follow Simply from Highly Particular Properties of Language Development 16.00 – 16.30 Discussion 16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break 17.00 – 18.00 Invited talk: Regarding the Third Factor Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland) 18.00 – 18.45 Forum Discussion Lilia Schürcks (Universität Potsdam) Thursday, October, 6th Conference Venue: Campus Neues Palais, House 12, 2nd floor, room ‘Obere Mensa’ 9.30 – 10.30 Invited talk: I-Morphology, Operations, Interfaces, and Complexity Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Université de Montréal) 10.30 – 11.15 Forum Discussion Gisbert Fanselow (Universität Potsdam) 11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.00 Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge)/Wolfram Hinzen (University of Durham)/Ulrich Reichard (University of Durham) Radicalizing the Interface: a Case Study of Intensionality 12.00 – 12.30 Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS/St. Petersburg State University) The Relation between the Linguistic Competence and Performance and the Architecture of the Grammar 12.30 – 13.00 Renato Lacerda (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) Information and Syntax: Quantifier Floating in Brazilian Portuguese 13.00 – 13.30 Discussion 13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 – 15.00 Peter Herbeck (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The (Non-)Existence of Empty Categories 15.00- 15.30 Mihaela Marchis/Mariana Bandeira/Elena Kireva (Universität Hamburg) Subject vs. Object (Backward) Control in MTC 15.30 – 15.50 Discussion 16.00 – 16.30 Dennis Ott (University of Groningen) Eliminating Constructions: the Case of Dislocation 16.30 – 17.00 Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) A Minimalist Approach to Roots 17.00 – 17.20 Discussion 17.20 Final Word Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 28-Aug-2011       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.